29 26 (2018)

29 26 is an audiovisual recording of the thoughts and feelings of two sixteen-year-old and two nineteen-year-old girls, who in monologues reveal their concerns and ideas about the life they’ll lead in ten years. The director underscores their speech with stylized and realistic images of themselves, acquired under varying circumstances and on different materials, thus creating an original work of art connecting elements of multiple artistic areas that are close to the author. Long shots of the protagonists’ faces, captured in great detail, are highlighted with expressive illumination and interleaved with poetic, experimentally conceived passages.

29 26, tries to be an intimate and honest tribute/portrait about growing up, creating a new space, between performance and film hoping to remember who we were one day.

“Portuguese director Pedro Velho will take part in the Jihlava IDFF this year with the film “29 26″ included in the Opus Bonum competition. The work deals with the ideas, emotions and expectations of four teenage girls. Stylized shots on the details of their faces, accompanied by authentic monologues, create a meditative atmosphere, and the viewer has a soothing yet active attitude. Sincerity from the protagonists’ utterances completes the atmosphere of friendly encounter and openness to the audience” – Matúš Slamka, 2018

Screenings

• 2019 | Ethnographic Film Screening – 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA)
• 2018 | 22 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival – Opus Bonum

Director: Pedro Velho
Co-created with Ada Borga, Josefine Winkler, Mariana Alves Canas and Sara Braz Ferreira
Photography: Ada Borga and Pedro Velho
Editing: Pedro Velho and Sérgio Galvão Roxo
Sound: Sérgio de Jesus