28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
The Room You Take
director: Pedro Filipe Marques
original title: O lugar que ocupas
country: Portugal
year: 2016
running time: 165 min.
synopsis
The world is a theatre. And in every theatre, there are usually backstage spaces that remain hidden from the run-of-the-mill spectator. In this stylized observational documentary, director Marques provides us with a glimpse behind the scenes of smaller Portuguese theatre groups. At a time when metallic monsters in the form of giant demolition bulldozers are razing a traditional theatre building, the marginal position of most theatre outsiders becomes even more depressing. Excerpts of conversations held in front of dressing room mirrors, poetic commentaries, and natural motifs are brought together to create an allegory filled with reflections, both those in the mirror, as well as their equivalents from the theatre that is the world.“I wonder if the proletarian artist isn't already an endangered species. From observational to essayistic, I build this atlas-like film to capture the mirrors of those who take this adventurous survival.”
biography
Pedro Filipe Marques (1976) is a well-known editor of fiction films and documentaries. His first feature-length documentary film The Way We Are (2011) received awards at several festivals (including DocumentaMadrid and Cinema du Réel to name but two). In his next film, The Room You Take (2016), he returns to his characteristic motifs of reflections, mirror images, and observations about the economic and social crisis that Portuguese society is currently facing.more about film
director: | Pedro Filipe Marques |
cast: | Lígia Roque, Maria Duarte, Gonçalo Ferreira d'Almeida, Miguel Loureiro, Cristina Carvalhal, Álvaro Correia, Crista Alfaiate, Dina Félix da Costa, Catarina Lacerda, Carlos Paulo, Sara Graça, José Jorge Duarte, Carla Galvão, Sofia Dinger, Daniel Martinho, Matamba Joaquim, Zia Soares, Ana Rosa Mendes, Sara Carinhas |
producer: | Rita Palma, Marta Pessoa |
script: | Pedro Filipe Marques, Rita Palma |
photography: | Marta Pessoa, Pedro Filipe Marques |
editing: | Rita Palma, Pedro Filipe Marques |
sound: | Elsa Ferreira |