TRIBUTES AND RETROSPECTIVES

Regina Pessoa, Abi Feijó - Figures of the Portuguese animation

A Noite

Regina Pessoa
1999 - Portugal - 06mn

Screenings : monday 22 - 10:15 am - Grand Théâtre thursday 25 - 10:30 am - Pathé - 1 - followed by a debate with the film director

The story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. The loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire universe when you are alone and abandoned.

After started as an animator in the studio Filmógrafo run by Abi Feijó, she wrote her own film, A Noite (The Night). The technique she chose was engraving on plaster, which is long and laborious, but which gives an incomparable texture to the images. After three years of relentless work, this short film won awards in several festivals.

CAST AND CREW

Screenplay : Regina Pessoa, Yann Thual
Cinematography : Regina Pessoa
Editing : Abi Feijo, Regina Pessoa

Production : Filmógrafo, Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto, Lda.

French distributor : Agence du court métrage