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Director Marta Mateus Wanted to Disrupt the ‘Banal Image of War’ Presented by Mass Media With Her Locarno Player ‘Fogo do Vento’
Mateus' rural Portuguese tale 'Fogo do Vento' is screening in the main competition at this year's Locarno Film Festival.
Brimming with magical thoughts yet precise in its anthropological scope, director Marta Mateus ‘ first feature, “ Fogo do Vento,” asks a lot from cinema. As we spoke, Mateus recalled in detail the difficulty of working with natural light that changes constantly and didn’t wait for any man (or woman) to capture it. Mateus, however, opts for a different approach, a different resistance: a precise way of understanding the force of a shot and a scattered pace and rhythm of almost chanted dialogue that evokes how oral cultures interpret the world, far away from the contemporary lineal, capitalistic way of making sense of things.
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