Super Natural is a film that talks and listens, that interferes and seeks out those who are beholding it. Its desire is to abandon the screen, to take a look at those who look at it, and listen to them, but also to be smelled and seen beyond what is being seen.
Super Natural is a transcendent experience occurring outside of the body, of all bodies, but particularly of one’s own. It is like a super-power and, in this movement, it focuses on the image, a sensitive existence one intends to speak with. That is why this film aspires, in a speculative gesture, to activate an effect, a hypothetical relaxation, a sensory experience for those who are off the screen as if they were on it.
FESTIVALS:
[2022] Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival (FIPRESCI Award)[Germany]
[2022] Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival - FICCI [Colombia]
[2022] Vilnius International Film Festival [Lithuania]
[2022] Art of the Real - Film at Lincoln Center [USA]
[2022] IndieLisboa - International Film Festival [Portugal]
[2022] Macao International Documentary Film Festival [China]
[2022] New Horizons Film Festival [Poland]
[2022] DokuFest [Kosovo]
[2022] GEGENkino [Germany]
[2022] Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF [Romania]
[2022] Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Award for Best Feature from Les Nouveaux Alchimistes) [Canada]
[2022] Vistacurta [Portugal]
[2022] Black Canvas FCC [Mexico]
[2022] Lima Alterna International Film Festival [Peru]
[2022] INTERSECCIÓN - Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival (Numax Award; International Jury Award) [Spain]
[2022] Viennale [Austria]
[2022] Message to Man [Russia]
[2022] Portuguese Cinema Days in Berlin [Germany]
[2022] Exground Film Fest [Germany]
[2022] Porto/Post/Doc [Portugal]
[2022] La Casa Encendida (Fundación Montemadrid) [Spain]
[2022] Portuguese Film Festival [South Korea]
[2023] Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media [Germany]
[2023] Tate Modern [United Kingdm]
[2023] Ibn Arabi International Film Festival [Spain]
[2023] Numax Award Screening [Spain]
[2023] Ann Arbor Film Festival [United States]
[2023] Cinedans FEST [The Netherlands]
[2023] Florestas Queer [Portugal]
[2023] Cineclube de Monção [Portugal]
[2023] Beijing International Film Festival [China]
[2023] exÓrbita [Spain]
[2023] Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis [The Netherlands]
[2023] More Than Human [China]
[2023] HBK Braunschweig [Germany]
[2023] Suspaustas Laikas Experimental Art and Film Festival [Lithuania]
[2023] Polo Cultural das Gaivotas [Portugal]
[2023] Wuhan Photography Art Center [China]
[2023] Fabric Arts Festival [USA]
[2023] vistacurta [Portugal]
[2023] encontros do DeVIR [Portugal]
Experimental, Documentary, Fiction
2022, Portugal, 85'
Script: André e. Teodósio, Jorge Jácome, José Maria Vieira Mendes
Cinematography: Marta Simões
Sound: Shugo Tekina, António Porém Pires
Editing: Jorge Jácome
Production: Pandora da Cunha Telles, Pablo Iraola / Ukbar Filmes; Daniela Ribeiro / Teatro Praga
Co-Production: Henrique Amoedo / Dançando com a Diferença
Cast: Alexis Fernandes, Bárbara Matos, Bernardo Graça, Celestine Ngantonga Ndzana, Diogo Freitas, Isabel Gomes Teixeira, Joana Caetano, Maria João Pereira, Mariana Tembe, Milton Branco