"A Dança de Sísifo"
The Sisyphus dance
HERMES, a last-generation automate, who had been tasked to watch the ability of humans to read books (considered dangerous activity at development stage) where everything was decided by intelligence unit of the state, that nobody would know how to fight or to stand against it.
Reading books was a way of keeping the critical spirit, creativity and sensitivity alive, through which the individual claims to be unique, free to refuse that collective, totalitarian and alienating universe.
In contact with two humans, automate recognizes itself differently and reverts the path of persecution.
He refuses to continue, his abnormal constitution that doesn't allow him to relate emotionally or even choose, the chance to end it all...death.
Cast: Welket Bungué, Vânia Naia, Graciano Dias Script: André Lourenço Directed: Paulo Valente and André Lourenço
Photography: Rodolfo Siveira Art Direction: Rita Gonçalves Music: João Portela Post Production: Ricardo Lisboa
3D: Fábio Vilares Visual Effects Supervisor: Paulo Valente
2012
The NY Portuguese Short Film Festival
Prized by RTP with honorable mention of best short, with "A Dança de Sísifo"
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Winner of Best Short "A Dança de Sísifo"
2011
Winner of Best Short in Over&Out 2011
The NY Portuguese Short Film Festival
Prized by RTP with honorable mention of best short, with "A Dança de Sísifo"
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Winner of Best Short "A Dança de Sísifo"
2011
Winner of Best Short in Over&Out 2011
da Universidade Lusófona/ICA - "A Dança de Sísifo"
Showing in
Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival