Arca d’Água

André Gil Mata

IndieLisboa 2009 • International Competition, National Competition

Portugal, Fiction, 2009, 22′

In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat. The dream of an impossible journey, in freedom’s search of the memories from an eternal past. A reflection on the effect of time and space’s metamorphoses in a man’s life and in his happy death.

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