​​Ghost Nature

By

MARCO MARTINS

with

Fernanda Fragateiro, Gonçalo M. Tavares

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

​​Ghost Nature

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 Images that summon childhood, death, the outdated past, a completed and immobile time, but also life’s capture, suspended time, the present past and the surprise.

by Marco Martins

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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