By
with
Companhia Maior Cast
Angelina Mateus
Carlos Fernandes
Carlos Nery
Catarina Rico
Cristina Gonçalves
Edmundo Sardinha
Elisa Worm
Isabel Simões
João Silvestre
Kimberley Ribeiro
Manuela de Sousa Rama
Maria Helena Falé
Michel
Paula Bárcia
Every year, since Companhia Maior was created in 2010, an invitation is sent to an artist or collective to create a show. In 2020 the guest artist was Marco Martins.
Faced with the impossibility brought by the pandemic to work with the company's cast in a stage play, Marco Martins, in collaboration with Fernanda Fragateiro and Gonçalo M. Tavares, created Ghost Nature. A multidisciplinary installation based on images from the old family albums of its interpreters and long interviews focusing on how domestic images fix and condition our memory, in a constant paradox between a living testimony and a stationary time, life maintained and postponed death. Images that summon childhood, death, the outdated past, a completed and immobile time, but also life’s capture, suspended time, the present past and the surprise.
sculpture and scenic space Fernanda Fragateiro
text Gonçalo M.
Tavares, Marco Martins
Companhia Maior cast Angelina
Mateus, Carlos Fernandes, Carlos Nery, Catarina Rico, Cristina Gonçalves, Edmundo
Sardinha, Elisa Worm, Isabel Simões, João Silvestre, Kimberley Ribeiro, Manuela de Sousa Rama, Maria Helena Falé, Michel, Paula Bárcia
technical consultancy, setting and sound design João Ferro Martins
scanning and file handling Blues Photography Studio
sound Rafael Cardoso
movement Cláudia
Nóvoa, Vânia Rovisco
director’s assistant Rita
Quelhas
Arena Ensemble’s managing director Marta Delgado Martins
production assistant Mafalda Teles
production director Mariana Brandão
Companhia Maior
director Miguel Honrado, Paula Varanda, Susana Martinho Lopes
executive coordination Beatriz Jarmela
communication consultancy Inês Lampreia, Sofia Batista
Film
director Marco Martins
Companhia Maior cast Angelina
Mateus, Carlos Fernandes, Carlos Nery, Catarina Rico, Cristina Gonçalves,
Edmundo Sardinha, Elisa Worm, Isabel Simões, João Silvestre, Kimberley Ribeiro,
Maria Helena Falé, Michel, Paula Bárcia
participation Ema Araújo, Érica
Santos, João Pedro Miller Guerra, João Vasco Bettencourt Vieira, Laura Cepeda, Leonardo Delgado Martins,
Manuel Viterbo Brandão Sardo, Melanie Neves, Mia Dewart Melo, Stefan Gomes
director of photography Carlos
Lopes (Káká), Lisa Persson, Marco Martins
first camera assistant Lisa Persson
second camera assistant João Porto
director’s assistant Teresa Mata
chief engineer Rosa Vale
Cardoso
chief electrician Sérgio
Caçoilo
sound Bernardo Theriaga
video assist Tomás Vieira
wardrobe Isabel Carmona
wardrobe assistant Mariana
Lourenço
make-up and hair Nani
make-up assistant
Ana Roma
hair assistant Marisa Marques
taxidermy MUHNAC Pedro Andrade
colour correction Mário Gaspar
editor Leonor Teles, Rita Quelhas
post-production coordinator Catarina Lino
production
assistant Filipa Falcão
production
coordinator Joana Vaz da Silva
ArtWorks
director José Miguel Pinto
artistic coordinator Francisca
Marques
production coordinator Valentin Neves
master locksmith Hélder Fernandes
locksmith Jorge Santos
production assistant André
Coelho, Carlos Arteiro, Pedro Graça
project assistant Ana Maria
Trabulo
audiovisual coordinator Bruno
Lança
ecosteel’s administrator José
Maria Ferreira
Atelier Fernanda Fragateiro
collaborators Filipa Alfaro, Filipe Meireles
rating 6+
opening 24th June 2021, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
co-production Centro Cultural de Belém, Teatro
Viriato, Companhia Maior and Arena Ensemble
Companhia Maior receives financial
support from Lisbon City Council under RAAML Program and from Belém Parish
Council
support ArtWorks, Lisbon City Council/MUDE – Museu do Design
e da Moda, CAPC - Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Central Lisbon University Hospital
Centre, Cinemateca
Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, Ministério
dos Filmes, Museu Coleção Berardo, National Museum of Natural History and Science, O Espaço do Tempo, Uma Pedra no Sapato
acknowledgments António Câmara Manuel, Cláudio Torres, Equipa Peris Costumes, Filipa Reis, João Maria Gusmão, José Luís Borges Coelho, Luís Pavão, Maria José Pinto da Costa, Rafael Barreto
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