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The Mesh and the Circle (2015) [N/A]

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Release Date:
April 25, 2015

Original Title:
A Trama e o Círculo

Production Countries:
Italy | Portugal

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 35

Overview from TheMovieDB

A film essay about the form of cinema. Over the course of several months, Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela collected visual testimonies of various labour and ludic activities and other daily practices rooted in empirical knowledge. Establishing intuitive relations between concrete gestures and substances, sensorial experiences and analogical thinking, the authors have created a fragmentary film immersed on the idea of transformation of matter, generating a revolving movement that metamorphoses itself over time. Throughout a sequence of diverse quotidian activities, solutions and abilities the spectator is conducted over a series of connections in a game of interplay between forms of magic, pleasure, geometry, symbolism and labour.

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Director:
Mariana Caló
Francisco Queimadela

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