Stigmart VideoFocus Special Edition ESP

and presented through devices associated with a family affective universe. Providing the viewer for the first time, the ritual of viewing photos, listening to the stories of the images at the same time while they create their own images, reminiscing their past and memories.

The film is taking an interesting route at the film festivals and video art. However the first showing of the film was in Experimental Jet Set (Super 8) in the CAAA - Center for Art and Architecture Affairs and it was a performance. My projection was hanging up clothes, the same as in the movie. I put a bundle of clothes the kitchen infront of the washing rack and my grandma and I were sitting on the bench watching the movie and the rest of the family was behind us being confronted for the first time with those images. They’re not fava beans, they’re scarlet runner beans it has a more experimental side because of its intimate character at the moment. It is a fragmented captured film in a familiar universe. It is a film of love for my grandmother.

Thanks for sharing your time, Tânia, we wish you all the best with your filmmaker career. What's next for Tânia Dinis? Have you a particular film in mind?

Well, it's impossible to stop filming my grandmother. I think I will continue to shoot(film her) forever. She is a true inspiration, with their stories, wisdom and especially the way she faces life. Her unconditional love for the countryside and for her family. But this is a project that takes time. I do not want to feel presured to create a new movie. I want to go filming and experimenting. Trying to capture the moment. Noting new memories and stories. Filming the time spent in her life and therefore in mine. And it can only be done in that way. My grandmother is not an actress. It's just my grandmother.

In the meantime, I am currently working on a new project that I hope still present this year. The work is of research and a collection of family archives. Today we find lost, abandoned or for sale, fair use, complete or incomplete files of families who for various reasons got rid of those images related to their intimate and family life. The purpose for the moment is to build one or more works. (Photos or a movie). I'm concentrating now on a trial based, on ownership of these photos and videos with stops memories in time. Revisit them, manipulating them through small narrative conflicts, moving them to other contexts as well. Reinterpret these images, see what you see and be curious of what is not seen. Multiplying memories that can be expanded in time.

Thank you for the invitation. It has been a pleasure to participate and share this with you.