Body Rice
The German teenager Katrin is sent to Portugal as part of a reintegration
programme for delinquent youths. In the barren surroundings of the Alentejo she meets Julia, who is also there for a social
programme, and Pedro, who lives locally but walks around equally lost. These young people only seem to feel in the right place
when they can dance to very loud techno. In that strange 1980s way, it is a very existential film: ’I‘ve got the spirit, but
lose the feeling,‘ as Joy Division said. All the characters are ”deterritorialised“. A sense of dislocation and permanent
unease are the collective feelings. I want to register these peripheral bodies at the surface, and above all I want their
skin. Formally, I do exactly the same: events are suspended, rather than materialised. I am interested in what is not seen.
(Hugo Vieira da Silva)
Competition Fiction 2007
Hugo Vieira da Silva
Portugal 2006
color
120
minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Hugo Vieira da Silva
Cinematography
Paulo Ares
Editing Paulo
Milhomens
With
Sylta Fee Wegmann, Alice Dwyer, André Hennicke, Julika Jenkins, Pedro Hestnes, Luís Guerra, Luís Soveral
Production
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