RUINS, which has already won the TOBIS Award during the Portuguese international film festival IndieLisboa, intertwines the reading of varied texts (newspaper articles, recipes, commercial correspondence, medical prescriptions) with fragments of spaces and times, remains of eras and places inhabited only by memories and ghosts. Places that no longer make sense, that are no longer necessary, that are no longer fashionable. Forgotten, obsolete, stark, empty places. This film doesn’t pretend to explain why they were created or why they existed, nor the reasons why they were abandoned or transformed. It only promotes an idea, somehow poetic, about something that was and still is part of this country’s (hi)story.
RUINS selected to FIDMARSEILLE’s International Competition 13.06.2009
RUINS, a documentary by Portuguese filmmaker Manuel Mozos, was selected to Fid Marseille’s International Competition, the most prestigious focus on documentary cinema worldwide, which will take place between 8th and 13th July.