"My hand is the instrument of the heart" explains the sculptor lovingly in the middle of half completed blocks of stone and expressive, petrified human figures. His statues, which look a lot like the lonely city dwellers who drift through the streets, stand in contrast to the exalted statues of Rodin. An older man puts his hand into an inside pocket and with a grin, produces a condom, icon of physical love, and walks away from the camera, laughing. His confrontational directness almost clashes with the rarefied, sometimes almost romantic piano music which accompanies the images. Meanwhile, a girl recites texts which she barely seems to understand; expressions of love and desire, closeness and distance, experience and fantasy. They alternate with each other in various languages while short fragmented texts appear on screen. “He is looking for her - she is looking for him”. The hand as an instrument of love, the means of contact and closeness, seems to appear time and again as an icon - the hands of the pianist, the sculptor, the lover. In a fluid collage of image, Music and poetry, Cardoso roams, searching, almost touching, through the museum, the concert and dance hall, the city and the natural landscape in an attempt to come to grips with concepts like love and desire.
– Geert-Jan Strengholt
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Sound mixing, Editing Veridianna Ravizza, Music List, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Janacek, Musicians Mikhail Rudy, With Manuela Cardoso, Slomo Selinger, Mikhail Rudy, Gigante Brasil
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