In 1978, Spoon Jackson was sentenced to life imprisonment. In jail, where he still lives, he discovered poetry and his own literary talent. Michka Saäl knows Spoon. She never sees him but she talks to him on the phone. She listens to him reading his poems. She fi lms landscapes which are his own kind of freedom, or his dreamed escape. She fi lms bodies that dance and wonder if it is possible to translate words into movements, if it is possible to give Spoon some freedom of movement, even vicariously.
Manoel de Oliveira
PARALLEL SCREEN / MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA FRÔLER L’ÉTERNITÉ
"NON", OU A VÃ GLÓRIA DE MANDAR "NON", OU LA VAINE GLOIRE DE COMMANDER Portugal, 1990, Colour, 35mm, Dolby Stereo, 110’
Original version : portuguese Script : Manoel de Oliveira, with the advice of P. João Marques Photography : Elso Roque Editing : Manoel de Oliveira, Sabine Franel Music : Alejandro Masso. Sound : Gita Ceveira Casting : Luis Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme, Luis Lucas Production : Paulo Branco
O VELHO DO RESTELO LE VIEILLARD DU RESTELO Portugal, France, 2014, Colour, HD, 19’ Original version : portuguese Photography : Renato Berta Editing : Valérie Loiseleux Music : José Luís Borges Coelho Sound : Henri Maïkoff Casting : Diogo Dória, Luis Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Mário Barroso Production : Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar, O Som e a Fúria Distribution : Epicentre Films