Invited by Batalha, filmmaker Mariana Gaivão is presenting a new visual object, a homage to the clubbing scenes of Portuguese cinema, in which the singular or collective movement of bodies is the protagonist, to the sound of mainly electronic music. RPM: Revoluções por Minuto is presented in performance format, with a sound composition developed for the occasion and performed live by Violet, producer and DJ.

After the screening, at 23:00 in the Bar, Pedro Tenreiro presents a DJ set of electronic music — with free entry.

Born of a pandemic note

by Mariana Gaivão

I miss dancing with abandon, feeling like I’m just a body, in the dark, guessing the others around me, in gestures that almost synchronise us in a single sea of dancing bodies. Alone-together, someone said to me. When I surrender myself to the darkness of the cinema, there is a similar feeling, a shiver at the lowering of the lights, an ancestral impulse towards silence and the awakening of the senses, from the time when our eyes sought refuge from the surrounding night in the flames. In this ritual, the Other becomes only a guessed presence, but an accomplice, in a shared, expanded intimacy. Alone, together. Longing for this dance, which is also communion, which is also Revolution.

Part of the After Hours: Clubbing on Film programme.

Programme developed with the support of Cinemateca Portuguesa — Museu do Cinema.