Sobrenatural3/2009
Patricia Portela
She studied theater, cinema and dance in Lisbon, Antwerp, Utrecht and Denmark. Since 1994, she works for independent theater companies, mainly as set or costume designer. She wrote and coordinated several performances as Wasteband, 2003 (Prize Reposição Teatro Decade na and honorific mention of the Prize Acarte/Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão), Flatland, 2004 (prize Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão 2004 and special mention Prize of the Portuguese Criticism 2006), Odilia, 2006, or Banquet, 2007. She has published since 1998: Operação cardume rosa (Fenda 1998), Se não bigo não digo (Fenda 1999), Odília (Caminho 2007), Para cima e não para Norte (Caminho 2008).
Tribute to Acácio Nobre
A video by Patricia Portela
With Acácio Nobre
Sound: Christoph De Boeck
Voice: Tiago Rodrigues
Produced by PRADO with the support of La Porta
This video tries to recreate a movie by Acácio Nobre, the oldest of the Portuguese futurists, the youngest of the French surrealists and a republican.
Acácio Nobre never traveled with luggage. Instead he preferred to exchange his own clothes with people he would recently meet. He used to recycle... by trading... Every 4 years, on the 29th of February, people from all over the world celebrate this unknown artist by exchanging personal objects and drinking cha masala latte, his favorite.
With Acácio Nobre
Sound: Christoph De Boeck
Voice: Tiago Rodrigues
Produced by PRADO with the support of La Porta
This video tries to recreate a movie by Acácio Nobre, the oldest of the Portuguese futurists, the youngest of the French surrealists and a republican.
Acácio Nobre never traveled with luggage. Instead he preferred to exchange his own clothes with people he would recently meet. He used to recycle... by trading... Every 4 years, on the 29th of February, people from all over the world celebrate this unknown artist by exchanging personal objects and drinking cha masala latte, his favorite.
Who is Acácio Nobre?
"The history always had its preferences", said Acácio Nobre, "and that's why I prefer the absinth to forget it!".
In this video I tried to recreate a film of Acácio Nobre, the oldest of the Portuguese futurists' circle, the youngest of the French surrealists' circle and a republican activist in a period that it was cool to support the monarchy.
In spite of his evident contribution to each of these circles, his personality (in an apparent way) grey and his conviction that the work should remain anonymous (to be able to survive the artist), led to very few documentation about this author and about the real impact of his work in the Portuguese History Art's books.
"I want to be dead when I'm dead! That my work lives by itself! The truth immortality is only reached when we manage with absolute and true certainty to faint of this world" said Acácio Nobre.
The fragment that I reconstructed intends that.
About the video subject
As we know, Acácio Nobre had this habit of traveling without suitcase, his goal was never to arrive home and for that, he never took anything that it might make him feel comfortable in a new place.
Acácio Nobre arrived to the marked destination as if it were unexpected. The first thing that did was to buy clothes, preferably on sales and of good quality and he never went back with the suit with which he had gone out in order to consider itself a completely different man when he went back (or arrived) to one new or to the same place again.
In this video I tried to recreate a film of Acácio Nobre, the oldest of the Portuguese futurists' circle, the youngest of the French surrealists' circle and a republican activist in a period that it was cool to support the monarchy.
In spite of his evident contribution to each of these circles, his personality (in an apparent way) grey and his conviction that the work should remain anonymous (to be able to survive the artist), led to very few documentation about this author and about the real impact of his work in the Portuguese History Art's books.
"I want to be dead when I'm dead! That my work lives by itself! The truth immortality is only reached when we manage with absolute and true certainty to faint of this world" said Acácio Nobre.
The fragment that I reconstructed intends that.
About the video subject
As we know, Acácio Nobre had this habit of traveling without suitcase, his goal was never to arrive home and for that, he never took anything that it might make him feel comfortable in a new place.
Acácio Nobre arrived to the marked destination as if it were unexpected. The first thing that did was to buy clothes, preferably on sales and of good quality and he never went back with the suit with which he had gone out in order to consider itself a completely different man when he went back (or arrived) to one new or to the same place again.
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