Director: Matilde César

Sound: Flora Nolan

Participation of: Ana León, David Moreira, Glória Sousa, Joana Carvalho, João Vasconcelos, Maria Freitas, Teresa Teixeira and Tomás Mendes

Poem "EFÉMERO": Written and narrated by Matilde César

Location: Madeira Island and Lisbon

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EFÉMERO (ephemeral) emerged as an escape of my own mind.

This project was born from the need to simply create, to do something for me while everything else I did was for others; it was born from a restlessness of not knowing why I was doing what I love to do the most.

Over the course of 7 months I was simply making images. Some appear in this video, some don't; some are still, some are moving, but all just have a visual ideal behind them.

This project reflects a state of mind that, although ephemeral, always comes back. A feeling of uncertainty and doubt; something in our core that we can't identify but remains there; a will to do something that always goes beyond what we are doing, as if everything else was insufficient.

This project is a love letter to nature, the one thing that has always comforted me even when I don't have it around; my refuge and eternal place of peace and solitude.