EFÉMERO

Director: Matilde César
Sound: Flora Nolan
Participation of: Ana León, David Moreira, Glória Sousa, Joana Carvalho, João Vasconcelos, Maria Freitas, Teresa Teixeira and Tomás Mendes
Poem "EFÉMERO": Written and narrated by Matilde César
Location: Madeira Island and Lisbon

EFÉMERO (ephemeral) emerged as an escape of my own mind.
This project was born from the need to simply create, to do something for me while everything else I did was for others; it was born from a restlessness of not knowing why I was doing what I love to do the most.
Over the course of 7 months I was simply making images. Some appear in this video, some don't; some are still, some are moving, but all just have a visual ideal behind them.
This project reflects a state of mind that, although ephemeral, always comes back. A feeling of uncertainty and doubt; something in our core that we can't identify but remains there; a will to do something that always goes beyond what we are doing, as if everything else was insufficient.
This project is a love letter to nature, the one thing that has always comforted me even when I don't have it around; my refuge and eternal place of peace and solitude.