Directed by
Catarina Mourão
year
2010
Duration
83 minutes
Synopsis
“One day I realised it no longer made sense to make things hang on walls...my canvas is too big to be exposed in a museum room, and sometimes so small that nobody can see it" Lourdes Castro became known as the artist "who took care of shadows" Throughout her international career as an artist Lourdes developed the concept of shadow, giving it different forms and finally reducing it to the minimum and dematerialising it. Today, when 80 years old she lives alone in an isolated house in Madeira island. Her art has become so minimalistic that it is hard to separate it from the gestures of her daily life. Lourdes worships every moment of her life, the trick is to keep breathing, she says.
crew
Photography Catarina Mourão
Sound Armanda Carvalho
Editing Catarina Mourão, Pedro Duarte
Production Catarina Mourão, Catarina Alves Costa, Patrícia Faria
awards
2010 Prix “HorsFrontières” – Festival Traces de Vie, Rencontres du Film Documentaire
2010 Prémio Melhor Filme Português - Festival TEMPS D'IMAGES
Festivals and exhibitions
2010 IndieLisboa International Film Festival
2010 New York Independent Film and Video Festival
2010 Festival Indie - Mostra de Cinema Mundial - São Paulo
2010 Muestra Internacional Documental de Colombia
2010 Mostra "Cineuropa" Santiago de Compostela Centro de Galego de Arte Contemporânea
2010 Cinemacity Alvalade
2011 Tartu World Film Festival
2011 Teatro Municipal de Almada
2011 Porta 33 Madeira
2011 Ecole des Beaux Arts
2012 Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
2013 Museu Berardo
2016 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
2016 Bienal de São Paulo no âmbito da exposição da artista Lourdes Castro
2022 Cinema Nimas
2022 Museu de Serralves
2022 Plano Nacional das Artes - Cineteatro Castro Daire
2022 Universidade Católica de Lisboa
