POETICALLY EXHAUSTED, VERTICALLY ALONE - the story of José Bação Leal -
- OFFICIAL SELECTION OF DOCLISBOA 2007 -
SYNOPSIS
José Bação Leal has born in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1942, and died in Mozambique, during the colonial war, with
23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in cause its own future in a meaningless war.
All the people who were close to him were touch by his fascinating personality and his vanguardist free spirit. In 1971, the well known Portuguese writer Urbano Tavares Rodrigues prefaces the posthumous book of the author, edited by the friends and the father, in this way: “This book will survive in its testimonial value as a historical mark, summarizing the agony and the martyrdom of so many young men broken in their nature and their options due the contingences of History. Besides, this book makes us coexist with a man who could had been one of the most important Portuguese writes of our time, if his live wasn’t been taken by the cruelty and insanity he denounces. We are before an extraordinary and passionate document of conscience, which for been rigorously located, results more universal”.
“Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone” wants to gives a portrait of this fascinating figure, through the places he had been, the testimonies of its close friends, the quality of his texts, having always the historical context as background.
Director: Luísa Marinho Producer: ZED Filmes - Curtas e Longas
Documentary - 53 min - 2007
TRAILER - 30''
LUÍSA MARINHO
Was born in Oporto on February 25th, 1978. Studied Audio Visual Communication at the Oporto/Center Multimedia Institute of Jornalists.
Worked as a jornalist on the cultural section of "O Comércio do Porto" daily newspaper.
OTHER SCREENINGS Figueira da Foz - Cinema no Forte - Ago08 -Portugal
Extensão do DOCLISBOA - Alcobaça (23 Nov - 2x)
FICHA TÉCNICA COMPLETA
escrito e realizado por
Luísa Marinho
produzido por
António Ferreira
direcção de fotografia
Cláudio Ribeiro
música
Luís Pedro Madeira
produção executiva
Tathiani Sacilotto
secretária de produção
Suzete Santos
edição
Luísa Marinho
Luísa Cardoso
edição adicional
Nuno Portugal
Toni Ferrino
sonoplastia
Toni Ferrino
pós-produção vídeo
Henrique Cepeda
correcção de côr
Cláudio Ribeiro
pós-produção audio e vídeo
ZED STUDIO
voz off
Nuno Cash
traduções
Luísa Marinho
Jonathan de Azevedo
grafismo
Chemega
excertos dos livros
"Poesias e Cartas"
(José Bação Leal)
"A Primeira Coluna de Napainor"
(António Manuel Silveira Viana)
"Os Condenados da Terra"
(Frantz Fanon)
excertos dos filmes
"Moçambique: Olhando os Homens
e as Crianças"
(César Mexia de Almeida)
"Deserto Vermelho"
(Michelangelo Antonioni)
fotografias de arquivo
gentilmente cedidas por
António Manuel S. Viana
Francisco Silva Alves
António da Cunha Ferreira
Afonso Barata
agradecimentos
a todos os que participam no filme
Ana Bação Leal
António Manuel Silveira Viana
Francisco Silva Alves
José Mário Fidalgo dos Santos
Luís Teixeira da Mota
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
Maria Antónia Fiadeiro
César Mexia de Almeida
Maria Teresa Horta
Mafalda Leal
Pedro Éfe
Diana Andringa
Mafalda Machado
Colégio Militar
Escola Prática de Infantaria
Estado Maior do Exército
Divisão de Gestão Cemiterial
(Câmara Municipal de Lisboa)
Livraria Barata
Apoios
ICAM
Apoio à pesquisa e
desenvolvimento de documentários
