Body Rice (2006) / AvaxHome

Since the 1980’s German institutions have sent adolescents to Southern Portugal to participate in experimental projects of social re-education, and our main character, Katrin, arrives in the Alentejo region of Portugal unable to establish a relationship with her new environment. The situation worsens because of the sheer emptiness of the region, the social desertification of Alentejo. Katrin plans to create a refuge in the middle of nowhere, with Julia and Pedro: in a physical and mental desert.

IMDB 5.0/10 from 131 users

Director: Hugo Vieira da Silva
Writer: Hugo Vieira da Silva
Actors: Sylta Fee Wegmann, Alice Dwyer, André Hennicke, Luís Guerra
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 118 min

Festivals and Awards:

- Official Jury Honourable Mention \"for its defying cinematographic expression and courageous creativity”, International Competition, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 2006
- 11th International Film Festival of Kerala, India 2006
- 17th Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia, 2006
- Bangkok International Film Festival, Thailand 2006
- International Youth Cinema Festival Valencia, Spain
- “European Cinema” Section, In Competition, Festival Crossing Europe, Austria
- Durban Film Festival, Republic of South Africa
- Rotterdam Film Festival, Holland, 2007
- In Competition, Festival Era New Horizons, Poland
- Las Palmas Film Festival, Canary Islands, Spain, 2007
- Best Director Award, Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival, Mexico 2007
- Best Director Award, Buenos Aires Film Festival, Argentina, 2007
- Hong Kong Cinema Festival, China, 2007
- Best Sound and Best Photography Awards, XVII Cine Ceará, Iberian-American Film Festival, Brazil, 2007
- MICEC – Contemporary European Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain, 2007
- European Contemporary Cinema Circuit, La Coruna, Spain, 2007
- Eurocine 27 - Cinemas UGC 2007, Strasbourg and Lyon, France
- Crossing Europe Film Festival, Austria 2007
- Brussels European Film Festival, Belgium 2007
- New Directors Award, Coimbra “Caminhos do Cinema Português”, Portugal 2007
- Leeds Film Festival, England 2007
- “Cultural Diversity Project”, Algarve International Film Festival, Portugal 2007

Comment from the Director:

Life is both tragic and funny at the same time absurd and deeply significant. More or less unconsciously, tried to cover this double aspect of experience in theMy characters are shadows. You never get to know everything, in the same way as you never get to know everything about anybody. Katrin is possessed by a deaf violence of memories she never quite becomes fully aware of.
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.
I want to avoid psychology. I want to speak about absence. The challenge is how to maintain characters without a psychology, since in the fictional sense they live on exactly this; it is about playing at the limit.
I wish to reduce representation to an epidermic level and work the surface as an atlas of the character’s inner convulsive maps. In one word: To achieve silence.

An idea gained shape amongst my previous work with some of these teenagers: that nothing will come to a close end, all is fragmented, and my (our) task is to continually reconstruct and so to lose again.
Psychological death is staged here as a possible portrait of my world and my own generation. These feelings invade and infect the film: something associated with the sensation that fullness, love is not achievable.

An action started, suspended, forgotten … like a mute, irreversible catastrophe, which slowly develops. Like a disease, which journeys on and is this pathological journey that becomes the film’s only object.
To film this journey implies time for observation, suspended time.

“It´s not over.”

Hugo Vieira da Silva

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