2º MOON International Video Poetry Festival distinguished films from Portugal, Switzerland and Brazil
Second edition of MOON International Video Poetry Festival closes on a positive note, with distinguished films from Portugal, Switzerland and Brazil
With a warm reception from the public and full houses throughout the weekend, MOON – International Video Poetry Festival closed on Sunday, 9 November, at the Templo da Poesia in Oeiras, with very positive results. The second edition of the festival attracted more than three hundred spectators over two days and presented around 30 films in competition, selected from more than two hundred submissions from different countries.
Over two days, MOON presented an intense programme that brought together cinema, poetry and music, with curatorial exhibitions by Edgar Pêra and Duplacena, a poetic performance by Maria Barnas and a film concert by Tó Trips and Edgar Pêra, which closed the event.
Award-winning films
First place went to Três Propostas para um Incêndio (Three Proposals for a Fire), by Penumbra Grupo de Estudos de Fotografia, distinguished ‘for its elegant visual approach and solid text, with the power of the words underlined by simplicity and conceptual rigour’.
The second place prize was awarded to Addicted To The Wound, by António Forte, João Øbo and Rita Tormenta, recognised for its “poetic and aesthetic depth in exploring, with rare sensitivity, the relationship between pain and creation. The choice of black and white amplified the metaphor of the contrast between absence and presence, wound and healing, silence and expression, revealing an existential unease that lingers long after the video ends."
Third place went to Behind the Mountains, by Lena Rubitschung from Switzerland, described by the jury as ‘a beautiful exercise in imagination and memory that takes the viewer through relationships and losses, with words and images of great poetic intimacy.’
Honourable mentions
The jury also gave honourable mentions to the films Mimosa Pudica: an epistemological parody, by Henrique Vaz (Brazil); Chororô, by Clara Vieira Silveira and Iara Ferreira (Brazil); and Blind Folded On The Highway, by Rita Tormenta and António Forte (Portugal), highlighting ‘the diversity of languages and approaches present in this edition of the festival.’
With free admission and a programme that crossed geographies, languages and disciplines, MOON established itself as a meeting place for poets, filmmakers and visual artists, promoting new forms of creation around words, images and sound. Promoted by the Associação Cultural A Palavra, in co-production with the Oeiras City Council and integrated into the MAP – Mostra de Artes da Palavra programme, the festival once again highlights the vitality of contemporary creation and the role of Oeiras as a territory of dialogue between the arts.
