“The awareness of absurdity” is a correspondence exchange between two young woman set apart by an ocean. Their involvement grows as they share personal experiences that allow them to deepen and explore the meaning of being alive. The visions we are exposed to, directly extracted from each mind and turned into video, take us on different places and times, both physical and psychological. All add up those are the moments that end up defining life. The experiences shown complement and react to one another in a dialogue that provokes a feeling of strangeness that characterizes the whole aesthetics of the film.

biografia

Tatiana Saavedra graduated in “film, video and multimedia communication” at lusophone university, Lisbon, portugal. She recently completed the “european entrepreneurship for creative industries (ciakl)” course, sponsored by companies as zon, novabase and avid. Winner of the European contest “industry alliance for cinema and knowledge”, in the categories of best idea, best project and best business plan with a documentary series titled “under the light”. Tatiana had previously won an honorable mention in 2011’s zon awards with the short film “white board” wrote and directed by her. The film has been selected for a number of national and international film festivals. She also was the director of the documentary film “the awareness of absurity“ who participated in the 1st women media arts and film festival in australia. Between 2011 and 2012 she worked at the project “portuguese music liking itself”, where she had the opportunity to direct several musicians she admires and work with director tiago pereira. She was also responsible for the “making of” of “special christmas”, a short film that was broadcast on national television. Being also a photographer, she held her first photography exhibition in 2011 at galeria fronteriza, in Mexico. Apart from being interested in arts, Tatiana has a strong interest in cultures and european languages having attended a course on “languages, literature and cultures” at new university of lisbon.

Francisca marvão graduated at ulht – universidade lusófona de humanidades e tecnologias in “film, video and multimedia communication”, lisbon,portugal. She recently completed the “european entrepreneurship for creative industries (ciakl)” course, sponsored by companies as zon, novabase and avid. Winner of the european contest “industry alliance for cinema and knowledge”, in the categories of best idea, best project and best business plan with a documentary series titled “under the light”. In 2011 she won an award for short-films in the categorie campus life at erasmus film fest with “ a espiral da morte dos operários-formiga”. The film also won an honorable mention at zon awards and has been selected for a number of national and international film festivals. In the same year she worked as an editor in the short-film “ a estrela mais brilhante”. The film won an award for short films at porto 7 and has been selected for a number of national and international film festivals. She also directed in 2010 a documentary called “ os atletas de nossa senhora” and the short film “o eterno erro” while she was at the university.

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