In this workshop, the directors João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata will not only question cinema with “restrictions / limitations / conditionalities / constraints / obstacles / antagonisms / setbacks”, but they will also establish possible parallels between the current epidemic and the HIV virus, evoking the French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert. How should we think about these constraints on cinematographic creation? As they say, “Free creation implies the conquest of freedom: collective, because cinema is not made alone; and (even more difficult to achieve) individual, because we have to face our demons. What should we be doing? Writing, as Guibert implored, or, in our case, FILMING.”

“Fiction 2 meters away”