Cinema: Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
22 MAR 2014
Palácios de Pena
Fiction, 2011 | 59 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to DCP
Languages: Portuguese| English subtitles
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past - one consumed by fear and desire - the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression.
Palácios de Pena is about a culturally inherited fear in Portugal, linked to political and social oppression during the Inquisition and Fascism. It revolves around two upper-middle class adolescent Portuguese girls, juxtaposing their budding identities to a trial condemning two Moorish homosexuals to burn at the stake. Their ailing grandmother gives them an awareness of their heritage through the mechanism of desire, describing a dream where she is a judge of the Inquisition. The grandmother’s and the girls’ guilt is complicated by their relationship, that of family and love. As they love each other, so does what they represent: ignorance and the will to violently oppress.
Access: subject to free ticket given at the Reception of the Museum
This cinema projection is a related activity of the exhibition "12 Contemporaries: Present States"
Palácios de Pena Gabriel Abrantes Fiction | 2011 | 59 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to DCP
Languages: Portuguese| English subtitles
Directors and screenplay: Daniel Schmidt, Gabriel Abrantes
Photography: Eberhard Schedl, Natxo Checa
Sound: Daniel Schmidt, Gabriel Abrantes
Editing: Daniel Schmidt, Gabriel Abrantes
Featuring: Alcina Abrantes, Ana Rita Franco, Andreia Martins, Bernarda Dos Bois, Catarina Gaspar, Daniel Schmidt, Feodor Unilici, Gabriel Abrantes, Judite Maria, Luíz Silva, Mariana Roberto, Marta Grilo, Marta Lopes, Marta Monteiro, Marta Vaz do Carmo, Núria Coelho, Teresa Castro, Thiago Dantas, Viktor Honchar, Yuri Ceban
Producers: Gabriel Abrantes, Marta Furtado, Natxo Checa
Production: A Mutual Respect
Gabriel Abrantes (1984, North Carolina, USA) lives and works in Lisbon.
In 2006 he received his BA in Cinema and Visual Arts at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York.
He also studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 2005-06, and at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France, in 2007.
In 2010, Abrantes co-founded the film production company A Mutual Respect. His films have been featured in exhibitions including ‘List Projects: Gabriel Abrantes’, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA, USA, 2013), ‘Dinasty’, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010) and ‘Reset’, Fondation d’Enterprise Ricard (Paris, 2010). In 2010, he had a retrospective exhibition at Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães, Portugal).
Abrantes is the winner of several prizes, including the EDP Prize (2009), the FNAC Novos Talentos Prize (Indie Festival, Lisbon, 2009) and the Golden Leopard for Best International Short Film (Locarno Film Festival, 2010).
"Serralves Ecossistema Criativo" Project co-financed by:
Fiction, 2011 | 59 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to DCP
Languages: Portuguese| English subtitles
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past - one consumed by fear and desire - the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression.
Palácios de Pena is about a culturally inherited fear in Portugal, linked to political and social oppression during the Inquisition and Fascism. It revolves around two upper-middle class adolescent Portuguese girls, juxtaposing their budding identities to a trial condemning two Moorish homosexuals to burn at the stake. Their ailing grandmother gives them an awareness of their heritage through the mechanism of desire, describing a dream where she is a judge of the Inquisition. The grandmother’s and the girls’ guilt is complicated by their relationship, that of family and love. As they love each other, so does what they represent: ignorance and the will to violently oppress.
Access: subject to free ticket given at the Reception of the Museum
This cinema projection is a related activity of the exhibition "12 Contemporaries: Present States"
Palácios de Pena Gabriel Abrantes Fiction | 2011 | 59 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to DCP
Languages: Portuguese| English subtitles
Directors and screenplay: Daniel Schmidt, Gabriel Abrantes
Photography: Eberhard Schedl, Natxo Checa
Sound: Daniel Schmidt, Gabriel Abrantes
Editing: Daniel Schmidt, Gabriel Abrantes
Featuring: Alcina Abrantes, Ana Rita Franco, Andreia Martins, Bernarda Dos Bois, Catarina Gaspar, Daniel Schmidt, Feodor Unilici, Gabriel Abrantes, Judite Maria, Luíz Silva, Mariana Roberto, Marta Grilo, Marta Lopes, Marta Monteiro, Marta Vaz do Carmo, Núria Coelho, Teresa Castro, Thiago Dantas, Viktor Honchar, Yuri Ceban
Producers: Gabriel Abrantes, Marta Furtado, Natxo Checa
Production: A Mutual Respect
Gabriel Abrantes (1984, North Carolina, USA) lives and works in Lisbon.
In 2006 he received his BA in Cinema and Visual Arts at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York.
He also studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 2005-06, and at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France, in 2007.
In 2010, Abrantes co-founded the film production company A Mutual Respect. His films have been featured in exhibitions including ‘List Projects: Gabriel Abrantes’, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA, USA, 2013), ‘Dinasty’, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010) and ‘Reset’, Fondation d’Enterprise Ricard (Paris, 2010). In 2010, he had a retrospective exhibition at Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães, Portugal).
Abrantes is the winner of several prizes, including the EDP Prize (2009), the FNAC Novos Talentos Prize (Indie Festival, Lisbon, 2009) and the Golden Leopard for Best International Short Film (Locarno Film Festival, 2010).
"Serralves Ecossistema Criativo" Project co-financed by:
