The short film Lisbon-Bon 345 Years after the Earthquake can be seen as a subversive glimpse of the future: Lisbon, 345 years after the earthquake. The film is shown as a very different city from the one we know. Using the elementary techniques of animation cinema, Edgar Pêra takes advantage of the state of ruin - the 1755 cataclysm is, although on another scale, a prototype of the 1988 fire in Lisbon’s Chiado district - to devise an absurd Utopian city, halfway between a garden of Eden and an unbearable hell, rebuilt on the ruins.
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