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BIOGRAPHY
CARLOS CONCEIÇAO (Angola, 1979) entered the Lisbon Film School in 2002. He had previously specialised in English Literature of Romanticism. His first short film, The Flesh, was awarded Best New Talent at Indie Lisboa in 2010, while Versailles (2013) premiered at the Locarno Film Festival.
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Critical text
Film essay, scientific fiction and travel diary, all in one, Carlos Conceição’s first feature film comes up with more questions than certainties. Swallowed in an enormous landscape devastated by an unnamed catastrophe, its young main character moves forward in loneliness with his mother ́s echo as a reference. This walk trough love and death encourages a mature reflection around family and collective identity, both of them always built upon wounds, some still recent, such as colonization and war. It speaks of Africa, of our continuity in time and of the heritage we leave behind, but above all, it speaks about the present, the irrational destruction of a planet we received on loan, about desolation when facing the extermination of its diversity (natural, cultural). In the permanent confusion between the intimate ant the global, between the loss and the search of the path, Serpentário gathers strength to turn into an unexpected mix between Fata Morgana and The Little Prince. MARTIN PAWLEY
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PROD:
António Gonçalves y Carlos Conceição
GUION:
Carlos Conceição
EDICIÓN:
António Gonçalves
SONIDO:
Rafael Cardoso
INTÉRPRETES:
João Arrais, Isabel Abreu, Carlos Conceição