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BLOW UP NEVER LAND

Blow Up Never-Never Land is not a film, we called it “a project for four films”, but it could have been called “an experiment” or “an intervention”. It’s a cinema showing composed of four films that up to now had existed separately, in shows and festivals. But it’s also a programming experiment for these films, suggested by the given line-up – which invents a journey – and by the insertion of intermissions between the films. The films are signed individually and the intermissions are a joint effort.
The idea of a journey was, by the way, the watchword for this “experiment”. We couldn’t avoid noticing that the journey was the central movement of the characters in three of the films (Kalkitos, Corpo e Meio, 31) and the other (Remains) was a destination (or a starting point). Taking into account the stylistic diversity between each film, we tried to open even more roads, invent more territories, and expand Never-Never Land by multiplying its fractures and continuity ghosts.
Blow Up Never-Never Land is a utopia to be shared.

Sandro Aguilar / Miguel Gomes


	A project for four films by Miguel Gomes and Sandro Aguilar
	Portugal, total duration 83'
	I steered west leaving behind the desert from which the distant clamour of battles could still be heard from time to time. Certainly it would not be long before the lagoon appeared on the horizon, suggested by the slight breeze that perfumed the afternoon with the sweetness of fruits. I anticipated the picture of animals standing by the stream and the promise of coolness offered by the orange trees’ shadow. I thought, “Tonight I’ll sleep deeply, without nightmares, ignoring for once the haughty outline of the Mountain of Fire that from the beginning grew at me shaking its smoke tentacles…” James Hook – even though you are not a character totally lacking in heroism – goodbye, for we have come to your last moment.