2013 – 50′ – PT

A film by David Mira.

2012 – 15′ – PT

Documentary by David Mira, playing at DOCLISBOA.

2016 – str – 10 min

Before the tractors and the machines, during the grape picking, in the quarry, in the sewing, in the places where each one was supposed to be. All the “environment” was surrounded by sound: the rhythms of routines and tasks, the prayers, and the need to renew each day. In a litany in which remain the perspective of the objects that have witnessed what people have experienced over the years. The passage of time, in which little changes, but what remains is a distant echo of the memory of when “everything was done.”

official selection, binaural nodar.

This piece is exclusively composed of sounds taken from the Viseu Rural 2.0 archive. There is no processing that modifies the recordings, only equalization, compression and related treatments, in order to filter out what (in the perspective of the piece) is important to be emphasized. It is a piece to be moderately amplified as it aims to keep each sound in a horizontal, accessible level in which the recording or amplification device should remain as discreet as possible.

2011 – str – 5 min

It alternates between a sharp loyalty to the original actions of the event and its surrealism, wondering if this story can be told and perceived in different ways and influence one another.