Explication des salamandres

About - Explication des salamandres

In France, the director films her father and mother, separately,
They tell why they fled Portugal forty years ago with their four children. Bearing witness to two lives in exile, with no plans to return, they monologue, surveying a landscape that seems to swallow them up. Her voice addresses each of them to tell of the wounds of childhood and the shadows of the family romance and to try to escape what exile has sealed as destiny. While there, in the places of her Portuguese childhood, she films the tableaux of an imaginary theater.

Maria Pinto

Passionate about art and literature, my academic career lies between these two poles, since I was a student at the University of Rouen in Modern Literature, at Paris VII in Plastic Arts and then at the School of Fine Arts in Rouen. I was led to do various exhibitions during the ten years when I was exclusively a visual artist, and it is this multidisciplinary practice that led me to documentary film. I have practiced other professions: translator from Portuguese and Spanish of poetic works, critical texts on artists for exhibition catalogs, journalist, photographer. I taught art history and led various artistic workshops.
After writing and directing a few short films, I made my first documentary film in 2005, "Explication des salamanders", which tells the shadows of the family novel and the scars of exile. Autobiographical, this film, at the antipodes of sterile realism, allows the truth of each protagonist (that of my parents and mine) to be expressed singularly. Festivals: Guth Gafa Ireland, Doc’Ouest Bretagne; ethnographic film festival, Paris, Ao Norte, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

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Avec
Le soutien
du Pôle Image de Haute-Normandie
du Centre des Ecritures cinématographiques (Céci - Moulin d'Andé)
de la Sacem
du Centre National de la Cinématographie
du Fonds d'Action et de Soutien pour l'Intégration e la Lutte contre les Discriminations,
de l'Angoa et de la Procirep, société des producteurs.