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A cemetery somewhere is South America. Images of people skipping over graves. Off screen, a little girl tells that her grandparents are here in the monasteries of sleep. The girl wonders how and when she will die. She would like her ashes to be scattered. In her voice there is hope, love and warmth. For her, death is still a mysterious abstraction. ‘Resurrection Cemetery’ is one of five extremely personal miniatures by Inęs Cardoso which together form ‘Privacy Invasion’. Another fragment, entitled ‘To Forget A Great Love’ contains a narrative, recalling Laurie Anderson, with images of a young woman whose face is overshadowed by a map of London. Elsewhere an Amsterdam tram suddenly appears to illustrate a long-distance phone call between two lovers. The five videos are a bit like postcards. They are personal - and therefore dramatic - snapshots in time. The relationship between the videos only becomes clear at the end when Cardoso sets ‘old school’ animation against a digital design and the viewer is given the opportunity to reflect on questions about the relationship between privacy, travelling and the role of the video camera. The magnificent music in this production cannot go unmentioned, but then, Cardoso was once a saxophone player.
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Erik Quint
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Editing Alexandre Mendonça, With Inęs Cardoso, Manoela Cardoso, Anna Ruth Monteiro
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