1 00:02:23,625 --> 00:02:25,250 From Lisbon… 2 00:02:26,584 --> 00:02:27,793 From Fritz. 3 00:02:28,043 --> 00:02:30,794 "I need your help! I cannot continue. 4 00:02:31,169 --> 00:02:34,837 "Come to Lisbon with all your stuff A.S.A.P. 5 00:02:35,545 --> 00:02:37,629 "No phone. No fax. 6 00:02:37,796 --> 00:02:39,755 "Write." 7 00:02:41,422 --> 00:02:44,048 I might as well go in person. 8 00:03:02,262 --> 00:03:05,097 Europe without frontiers. 9 00:03:05,597 --> 00:03:09,056 No more barriers. Just free movement. 10 00:03:09,389 --> 00:03:13,975 Ask me for my passport, please! At least look in my boot. 11 00:03:14,141 --> 00:03:17,142 If you only knew how much I'm smuggling! 12 00:05:19,057 --> 00:05:21,975 Testing, testing. One, two, three, four… 13 00:05:25,809 --> 00:05:29,602 I've never been so far by car. 14 00:05:31,103 --> 00:05:34,937 You can really see how Europe is becoming one big country. 15 00:05:35,479 --> 00:05:39,356 The languages, the music and the news are different, 16 00:05:39,689 --> 00:05:41,523 but as for the rest… 17 00:05:42,690 --> 00:05:45,358 The countryside's always the same, 18 00:05:45,525 --> 00:05:49,526 always telling the same story of an old continent 19 00:05:49,692 --> 00:05:51,902 that's sick of war. 20 00:05:52,235 --> 00:05:55,111 It's nice to drive and not think about anything, 21 00:05:55,278 --> 00:05:58,987 let yourself be carried along by the road and by history. 22 00:05:59,404 --> 00:06:02,655 Yes, I feel at home here. 23 00:06:02,821 --> 00:06:05,364 It's my home country. 24 00:06:34,832 --> 00:06:39,417 I'm looking for a book to teach me Portuguese. 25 00:06:42,501 --> 00:06:44,544 What kind of book? 26 00:06:45,252 --> 00:06:46,295 Big… 27 00:06:47,003 --> 00:06:48,586 or small? 28 00:06:49,962 --> 00:06:51,421 Small. 29 00:06:52,797 --> 00:06:56,381 But you can already speak Portuguese. 30 00:07:00,132 --> 00:07:02,133 Not well… 31 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:04,717 Not well. I'm a foreigner. 32 00:07:05,009 --> 00:07:06,384 I'm a foreigner. 33 00:07:07,342 --> 00:07:08,885 Are you English? 34 00:07:09,427 --> 00:07:11,886 No, I'm French. 35 00:07:12,053 --> 00:07:14,012 No, I'm German. 36 00:07:14,387 --> 00:07:16,930 But I live in Portugal. 37 00:07:20,764 --> 00:07:22,097 I'll never get it! 38 00:07:24,265 --> 00:07:26,141 OK, a bit more… 39 00:07:26,308 --> 00:07:30,267 Lesson number one: at the bookshop. 40 00:07:31,642 --> 00:07:33,143 Hello. 41 00:07:35,102 --> 00:07:36,394 What's that? 42 00:07:38,228 --> 00:07:39,770 A flat tyre. 43 00:07:41,729 --> 00:07:43,313 A flat tyre! 44 00:07:44,647 --> 00:07:45,730 Uno flato! 45 00:08:05,487 --> 00:08:07,696 Big or small? 46 00:08:08,613 --> 00:08:10,363 Small, I hope. 47 00:08:13,656 --> 00:08:15,615 That's all I needed! 48 00:08:16,032 --> 00:08:18,491 A flat tyre! 49 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,846 I'm hurrying, Fritz. I'm on my way. 50 00:10:42,288 --> 00:10:43,705 Nothing. 51 00:11:27,845 --> 00:11:29,720 Goodbye forever. 52 00:11:30,429 --> 00:11:32,846 In an air-conditioned bus. 53 00:12:01,814 --> 00:12:04,940 I should have stayed on the motorway. I'm an idiot. 54 00:12:11,192 --> 00:12:12,359 For heaven's sake! 55 00:12:28,407 --> 00:12:29,698 Shit! 56 00:15:05,708 --> 00:15:07,209 Friedrich? 57 00:15:10,918 --> 00:15:12,711 Winter is here. 58 00:15:51,931 --> 00:15:53,015 Good morning. 59 00:16:21,358 --> 00:16:23,484 Fritz, where are you hiding? 60 00:17:04,038 --> 00:17:05,539 About time! 61 00:18:35,693 --> 00:18:37,236 What are you doing? 62 00:18:37,944 --> 00:18:38,778 Are you crazy? 63 00:18:38,944 --> 00:18:40,362 Who are you? 64 00:18:40,529 --> 00:18:42,654 What are you doing in Friedrich's bed? 65 00:18:42,820 --> 00:18:44,696 I don't understand. 66 00:18:45,155 --> 00:18:47,989 I don't speak Portuguese. 67 00:18:55,074 --> 00:18:56,867 You tell me! 68 00:19:55,219 --> 00:19:57,679 "If only I were all people in all places." 69 00:22:30,770 --> 00:22:32,813 Hello, Claudio. 70 00:22:33,730 --> 00:22:37,147 Is that Claudio? Send him a kiss from me. 71 00:22:37,314 --> 00:22:38,565 All right. 72 00:23:44,753 --> 00:23:46,212 Silence, please! 73 00:24:06,969 --> 00:24:07,636 A horse. 74 00:24:08,094 --> 00:24:09,552 Galloping. 75 00:24:10,262 --> 00:24:11,262 He's running fast. 76 00:24:12,512 --> 00:24:13,929 He's galloping. 77 00:24:25,975 --> 00:24:27,267 A match! 78 00:24:37,896 --> 00:24:39,271 What's that? 79 00:25:09,197 --> 00:25:10,698 Fried potatoes! 80 00:25:12,990 --> 00:25:14,533 An egg. 81 00:25:15,408 --> 00:25:17,909 A fried egg! 82 00:25:18,075 --> 00:25:19,242 A fried egg! 83 00:25:25,577 --> 00:25:27,037 What did he say? 84 00:25:27,203 --> 00:25:28,662 The cowboy is frightened. 85 00:25:39,749 --> 00:25:40,916 What's that? 86 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,458 It's a car. 87 00:25:43,625 --> 00:25:45,334 No, it's an animal. 88 00:25:47,419 --> 00:25:48,627 I'm scared. 89 00:25:50,295 --> 00:25:52,420 It's a lion! 90 00:25:54,004 --> 00:25:55,587 He's hungry. 91 00:26:02,465 --> 00:26:03,882 He's running away. 92 00:26:10,717 --> 00:26:12,343 He's jumped. 93 00:26:13,885 --> 00:26:15,053 It's cold. 94 00:26:15,219 --> 00:26:16,261 It's freezing. 95 00:26:28,057 --> 00:26:29,015 American? 96 00:26:31,683 --> 00:26:33,350 European. 97 00:26:33,517 --> 00:26:34,434 Tourist? 98 00:26:35,934 --> 00:26:37,518 Working. 99 00:26:38,268 --> 00:26:39,644 A worker. 100 00:27:17,364 --> 00:27:18,824 Bless you. 101 00:27:19,407 --> 00:27:20,657 Thanks. 102 00:27:43,081 --> 00:27:45,707 See you tomorrow. 103 00:28:54,396 --> 00:28:55,730 Goodbye, Mr Inverno. 104 00:32:14,003 --> 00:32:16,754 When a guitar trills 105 00:32:16,962 --> 00:32:19,963 In the hands of a good player 106 00:32:20,172 --> 00:32:22,923 That guitar can teach 107 00:32:23,381 --> 00:32:26,132 Anyone to sing 108 00:32:38,678 --> 00:32:41,554 I want my coffin 109 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,305 To have an unusual shape 110 00:32:44,763 --> 00:32:47,681 The shape of a heart 111 00:32:47,847 --> 00:32:50,598 The shape of a guitar 112 00:32:51,057 --> 00:32:53,849 Guitar, my dear guitar 113 00:32:54,099 --> 00:32:56,934 I've come to cry with you 114 00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:59,976 I feel life is more tender 115 00:33:00,686 --> 00:33:03,269 When you cry with me… 116 00:34:43,552 --> 00:34:44,678 Let's play Ainda. 117 00:34:45,886 --> 00:34:46,970 We're ready. 118 00:34:59,432 --> 00:35:02,308 I'm saying 119 00:35:14,104 --> 00:35:17,396 Certain things 120 00:35:28,609 --> 00:35:32,401 I'm learning 121 00:35:43,072 --> 00:35:46,698 Some others 122 00:35:57,284 --> 00:36:01,203 They're truths 123 00:36:10,706 --> 00:36:14,582 They're quests 124 00:36:24,418 --> 00:36:28,004 Friendships 125 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,549 Adventures 126 00:36:51,261 --> 00:36:54,803 The one who reaches 127 00:37:04,641 --> 00:37:07,975 Lives far away 128 00:37:18,270 --> 00:37:21,562 From the change 129 00:37:31,274 --> 00:37:35,401 From his name 130 00:37:47,237 --> 00:37:49,571 Friendships 131 00:37:57,491 --> 00:38:01,242 Adventures 132 00:38:10,495 --> 00:38:13,538 The one who advances 133 00:38:22,916 --> 00:38:25,208 Keeps his love 134 00:38:36,629 --> 00:38:39,755 Keeps his hopes 135 00:38:48,966 --> 00:38:51,717 Without favour 136 00:39:08,222 --> 00:39:14,808 Ainda… 137 00:40:17,829 --> 00:40:19,412 Pessoa. 138 00:40:20,746 --> 00:40:24,206 Portuguese for "nobody". 139 00:40:25,581 --> 00:40:26,957 Poems by Nobody. 140 00:40:27,123 --> 00:40:28,832 He must have liked that. 141 00:40:29,416 --> 00:40:31,333 He's underlined everything. 142 00:41:04,510 --> 00:41:05,970 I'll get you! 143 00:41:23,350 --> 00:41:24,184 Shit! 144 00:41:36,146 --> 00:41:38,980 "Thought was born blind but Thought knows what is seeing…" 145 00:41:47,899 --> 00:41:49,942 Fritz could have written that. 146 00:41:50,192 --> 00:41:52,151 It sounds better in English. 147 00:43:59,442 --> 00:44:00,860 Hello. 148 00:47:58,688 --> 00:48:00,146 Nice, Fritz. 149 00:48:13,985 --> 00:48:15,526 I like it. 150 00:51:03,331 --> 00:51:05,624 Good afternoon, sir. 151 00:51:07,917 --> 00:51:10,293 I saw you in a film 152 00:51:10,501 --> 00:51:14,252 made by my friend Frederico Monroe, Friedrich. 153 00:51:14,419 --> 00:51:15,502 Don't know him. 154 00:51:19,921 --> 00:51:22,380 Help me find this man. 155 00:51:22,547 --> 00:51:24,213 I can help you. 156 00:51:24,422 --> 00:51:27,048 He had an old camera. 157 00:51:27,214 --> 00:51:30,007 What? Is he mad? 158 00:51:31,049 --> 00:51:34,509 – Can I come to your house? – Yes. 159 00:51:34,676 --> 00:51:36,967 To talk about your life… 160 00:51:37,468 --> 00:51:38,718 Thanks. 161 00:51:39,093 --> 00:51:40,553 Let's go. 162 00:51:43,219 --> 00:51:45,970 I stayed until I was 14. 163 00:51:46,430 --> 00:51:48,221 I left home when I was 14. 164 00:51:49,847 --> 00:51:52,848 I left because there were so many of us. 165 00:51:53,307 --> 00:51:55,390 We needed money for food. 166 00:51:55,599 --> 00:51:58,266 He didn't earn much as a cobbler. 167 00:51:58,892 --> 00:52:03,268 As I liked chatting up girls back then, 168 00:52:03,851 --> 00:52:07,061 I went to dances. And he… 169 00:52:07,727 --> 00:52:11,063 When I didn't come home at night he'd hit me 170 00:52:11,271 --> 00:52:14,355 with wet towels to wake me up. 171 00:52:15,272 --> 00:52:18,231 I got sick of that so I left home… 172 00:52:42,406 --> 00:52:44,574 You got a problem? 173 00:52:56,661 --> 00:52:58,036 The one with the camera. 174 00:53:35,215 --> 00:53:36,632 I'll rip you off. 175 00:55:28,502 --> 00:55:30,794 Let's play Alfama before we go. 176 00:55:31,086 --> 00:55:32,712 To bring us luck. 177 00:55:33,045 --> 00:55:36,671 Even without keyboards it should be all right. 178 00:55:46,383 --> 00:55:47,759 Thanks. 179 00:56:08,891 --> 00:56:10,266 Alfama! 180 00:57:03,699 --> 00:57:06,409 Now 181 00:57:08,076 --> 00:57:10,577 That I remember 182 00:57:12,286 --> 00:57:14,453 As time 183 00:57:14,620 --> 00:57:19,122 Goes by 184 00:57:20,914 --> 00:57:23,331 I wish 185 00:57:25,082 --> 00:57:27,582 To return 186 00:57:29,333 --> 00:57:31,501 To return to you 187 00:57:31,668 --> 00:57:35,585 I wish to meet you again 188 00:57:37,420 --> 00:57:39,003 Forgotten 189 00:57:40,337 --> 00:57:43,588 With each day that passes 190 00:57:44,588 --> 00:57:48,048 I've never again seen the grace 191 00:57:48,214 --> 00:57:52,758 Of your eyes that I love 192 00:57:54,550 --> 00:57:55,967 Bad tuck 193 00:57:57,259 --> 00:58:01,010 It was a love that I didn't keep 194 00:58:01,677 --> 00:58:04,887 Perhaps I was distracted 195 00:58:05,054 --> 00:58:09,221 Whatever happens… 196 01:00:42,105 --> 01:00:44,189 At last, the knife-grinder! 197 01:02:09,717 --> 01:02:11,425 One of the classes? 198 01:02:12,468 --> 01:02:15,094 It wasn't me filming! 199 01:05:01,898 --> 01:05:04,232 "There was no electricity down there 200 01:05:04,399 --> 01:05:08,192 I read, by candlelight, what I could get my hands on 201 01:05:08,442 --> 01:05:10,568 "The Bible in Portuguese 202 01:05:10,734 --> 01:05:13,860 "I reread the first epistle to the Corinthians 203 01:05:14,194 --> 01:05:16,236 "A sea of emotions welled up in me 204 01:05:16,403 --> 01:05:19,529 I am nothing, a fiction What do I want in this world? 205 01:05:19,696 --> 01:05:22,280 "What do I expect of myself and everything? 206 01:05:22,697 --> 01:05:25,406 "If I didn't have love… 207 01:05:27,865 --> 01:05:31,283 "If I didn't have love… 208 01:05:32,283 --> 01:05:35,701 "My God! I who have no love 209 01:05:36,410 --> 01:05:39,661 "My God! I have no love." 210 01:05:41,203 --> 01:05:45,120 Pessoa, December 1934. 211 01:05:46,788 --> 01:05:48,622 Shortly before his death. 212 01:05:50,747 --> 01:05:52,540 "If I could predict the future 213 01:05:52,707 --> 01:05:54,999 "If I had all the secrets and knowledge 214 01:05:55,166 --> 01:05:58,750 "And all the beliefs, if I could move mountains 215 01:05:58,917 --> 01:06:01,835 "Without love 216 01:06:02,001 --> 01:06:04,377 "I would be nothing." 217 01:06:07,462 --> 01:06:10,338 Nothing. Yes, that's it. 218 01:06:16,381 --> 01:06:17,798 The sun. 219 01:06:21,091 --> 01:06:23,133 A bird. 220 01:06:26,551 --> 01:06:28,302 The church. 221 01:06:30,969 --> 01:06:32,636 Trees. 222 01:06:37,221 --> 01:06:38,722 Pigeons. 223 01:06:40,598 --> 01:06:42,681 A tram. 224 01:06:50,726 --> 01:06:52,392 A ship. 225 01:06:55,643 --> 01:06:57,686 Now the lady. 226 01:07:19,651 --> 01:07:20,944 We'll do it again. 227 01:07:21,402 --> 01:07:22,736 That was OK. 228 01:07:23,027 --> 01:07:25,237 OK, but crap. 229 01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,376 Look how you filmed it! 230 01:08:06,542 --> 01:08:08,126 It's not my fault. 231 01:08:09,002 --> 01:08:10,377 Really interesting! 232 01:08:11,877 --> 01:08:13,544 I'll fast-forward. 233 01:08:13,711 --> 01:08:15,920 You don't know how to film. 234 01:08:22,631 --> 01:08:24,089 You keep shaking. 235 01:08:24,257 --> 01:08:25,715 And you keep slipping. 236 01:08:25,882 --> 01:08:29,383 Because the floor's slippery. What do you expect? 237 01:08:29,674 --> 01:08:31,384 Great excuse! 238 01:08:32,425 --> 01:08:34,885 Why do you keep shaking? 239 01:08:35,051 --> 01:08:37,469 – I was nervous. – So was I. 240 01:08:39,762 --> 01:08:41,428 Fallen again! 241 01:08:49,431 --> 01:08:52,682 Look at that, it's rubbish! 242 01:08:53,057 --> 01:08:57,183 You should buy me a tripod, then! 243 01:09:17,524 --> 01:09:19,441 Day one of the experiment. 244 01:09:19,608 --> 01:09:24,067 This machine records wherever I go, on automatic pilot. 245 01:09:24,234 --> 01:09:26,485 I can be in this bakery 246 01:09:26,943 --> 01:09:29,444 and my eyes are free to wander. 247 01:09:30,319 --> 01:09:33,737 Just what I needed, a visual scratchbook. 248 01:09:34,613 --> 01:09:37,155 Day two of the experiment. 249 01:09:37,864 --> 01:09:41,615 I slowly get used to not being in control. 250 01:09:42,032 --> 01:09:44,158 I try to let my feet walk 251 01:09:44,324 --> 01:09:46,825 and my eyes roam. 252 01:09:47,617 --> 01:09:49,576 The machine records on its own. 253 01:09:49,743 --> 01:09:52,035 Day three of the experiment. 254 01:09:52,326 --> 01:09:56,620 Solitude is a condition for what I'm doing. 255 01:09:57,370 --> 01:09:59,871 Who could be ready to lose himself 256 01:10:00,079 --> 01:10:04,705 and enter the life of a city, if not the lonely? 257 01:10:50,345 --> 01:10:52,055 This reel's finished. Next one. 258 01:10:52,221 --> 01:10:53,388 All right. 259 01:11:16,313 --> 01:11:18,230 Day four of the experiment. 260 01:11:18,355 --> 01:11:20,980 With film, time is so precious. 261 01:11:21,148 --> 01:11:24,982 You try to concentrate everything on the moment the camera's running. 262 01:11:25,274 --> 01:11:28,358 What happens before and after doesn't count. 263 01:11:29,025 --> 01:11:33,026 Time is a whole new experience. 264 01:11:33,193 --> 01:11:34,902 It has no peaks, 265 01:11:35,652 --> 01:11:39,070 everything counts and is of equal importance. 266 01:11:40,071 --> 01:11:41,737 I do not select any more. 267 01:11:42,446 --> 01:11:45,072 What freedom! 268 01:11:48,281 --> 01:11:52,241 Day six of the experiment, I'm tired of going back to the house. 269 01:11:52,741 --> 01:11:55,909 The house keeps me from being with the city. 270 01:11:56,201 --> 01:11:59,035 It creates a protection I no longer want. 271 01:11:59,243 --> 01:12:01,453 My poor Friedrich, 272 01:12:01,619 --> 01:12:03,369 you're a maniac! 273 01:12:03,536 --> 01:12:08,413 I can feel my heartbeat pulse in these shots, literally! 274 01:12:08,955 --> 01:12:11,789 My sight can glide over the city, 275 01:12:11,956 --> 01:12:15,873 my eyes can touch it as if they were hands. 276 01:12:16,291 --> 01:12:19,375 What I see and what I am become one. 277 01:12:19,625 --> 01:12:23,376 He no longer exists on earth. 278 01:12:24,376 --> 01:12:27,086 But He lingers… Where? 279 01:12:28,628 --> 01:12:33,796 There really is an appropriate place for saints. 280 01:12:37,130 --> 01:12:39,256 God exists. 281 01:12:42,674 --> 01:12:46,593 The universe was created by Him. 282 01:12:49,343 --> 01:12:51,510 And what's the use of the universe? 283 01:12:54,178 --> 01:12:56,179 If men… 284 01:12:58,847 --> 01:13:02,931 If mankind disappeared, 285 01:13:05,890 --> 01:13:08,433 the universe would be useless. 286 01:13:11,684 --> 01:13:15,935 Or does it have a purpose in itself, 287 01:13:17,686 --> 01:13:19,853 without the existence of man? 288 01:13:25,188 --> 01:13:29,064 We want to imitate God, 289 01:13:30,648 --> 01:13:33,024 and that's why artists exist. 290 01:13:33,649 --> 01:13:36,859 Artists want to recreate the world 291 01:13:37,525 --> 01:13:41,068 as if they were little gods. 292 01:13:43,319 --> 01:13:47,613 And they do a series of… 293 01:13:48,863 --> 01:13:52,322 a constant rethinking about… 294 01:13:54,823 --> 01:13:57,157 about history, about life, 295 01:13:57,324 --> 01:14:00,367 about things going on in the world, 296 01:14:01,117 --> 01:14:03,659 what we believe has been going on, 297 01:14:04,493 --> 01:14:06,702 only because we believe. 298 01:14:07,535 --> 01:14:11,036 Yes, because finally we believe in memory. 299 01:14:13,912 --> 01:14:16,163 For all is gone. 300 01:14:17,997 --> 01:14:21,457 How can we be sure that all we imagine has happened 301 01:14:21,665 --> 01:14:23,540 has actually happened? 302 01:14:26,291 --> 01:14:27,709 Whom should we ask? 303 01:14:28,917 --> 01:14:30,418 This world… 304 01:14:32,043 --> 01:14:35,211 This supposition, then, is an illusion. 305 01:14:36,169 --> 01:14:39,671 The only true thing would be memory, 306 01:14:40,421 --> 01:14:43,839 but memory is an invention. 307 01:14:44,089 --> 01:14:46,673 Memory, really… 308 01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:48,924 I mean, in cinema… 309 01:14:49,591 --> 01:14:53,884 In cinema the camera can capture a moment, 310 01:14:55,301 --> 01:14:57,385 but that moment is no more. 311 01:14:58,052 --> 01:15:01,512 What cinema really does is bring back a phantom of that moment. 312 01:15:02,762 --> 01:15:06,846 We can no longer be sure if that moment existed 313 01:15:07,014 --> 01:15:09,264 other than on celluloid. 314 01:15:10,806 --> 01:15:15,266 Or is film a guarantee of the existence of that moment? 315 01:15:15,724 --> 01:15:16,808 I don't know. 316 01:15:17,267 --> 01:15:19,518 Or I know less and less about it. 317 01:15:20,518 --> 01:15:25,728 We live in permanent doubt. 318 01:15:26,978 --> 01:15:30,771 Yet we keep our feet on the ground. 319 01:15:32,022 --> 01:15:35,273 We eat, we enjoy life. 320 01:15:50,611 --> 01:15:51,861 Calm down. 321 01:15:54,362 --> 01:15:55,988 Are you blind? 322 01:15:56,821 --> 01:15:58,446 Video tourists! 323 01:15:58,613 --> 01:16:01,781 Complete idiots! 324 01:16:02,698 --> 01:16:04,157 Vidiots! 325 01:16:14,994 --> 01:16:18,745 This is the sound of pigeons in the editing room. 326 01:16:20,163 --> 01:16:25,164 Now the sound of a broken leg… in stereo. 327 01:16:57,091 --> 01:16:59,842 The sound of Friedrich's absence. 328 01:18:12,740 --> 01:18:14,075 I can't! 329 01:18:19,076 --> 01:18:20,993 All right. 330 01:18:21,577 --> 01:18:22,786 Thank you. 331 01:21:27,054 --> 01:21:29,430 What do I think about the world? 332 01:21:30,389 --> 01:21:33,348 If I were ill I'd think about it. 333 01:21:34,181 --> 01:21:36,891 What ideas do I have about things? 334 01:21:37,517 --> 01:21:40,768 What opinions do I have on causes and effects? 335 01:21:41,393 --> 01:21:45,102 What meditations have I had upon God? 336 01:21:46,269 --> 01:21:47,978 I don't know. 337 01:21:48,145 --> 01:21:51,437 For me, to think about that means shutting my eyes 338 01:21:52,312 --> 01:21:53,647 and not thinking. 339 01:22:49,248 --> 01:22:51,082 I have failed altogether. 340 01:22:53,457 --> 01:22:58,251 As I've not achieved any design, perhaps it was all nothing. 341 01:23:14,589 --> 01:23:19,258 Newton's binominal theory is as beautiful as the Venus de Milo. 342 01:23:21,551 --> 01:23:26,135 The fact is, precious few people care. 343 01:23:30,470 --> 01:23:34,471 I move from the window, sit down in a chair. 344 01:23:34,638 --> 01:23:36,556 What shall I think about? 345 01:23:36,889 --> 01:23:38,556 Dogshit. 346 01:23:39,932 --> 01:23:41,890 Seven years of good luck. 347 01:23:44,391 --> 01:23:46,684 Walking down the Rua São Mamede… 348 01:23:49,893 --> 01:23:52,186 This neighbourhood is so poor 349 01:23:52,852 --> 01:23:54,853 even the taxman doesn't come here. 350 01:23:58,979 --> 01:24:03,981 I'm so ruined with love that beggar children stone me 351 01:24:04,523 --> 01:24:06,065 in the alleys. 352 01:24:08,941 --> 01:24:11,608 – You can keep it. – Thank you. 353 01:24:15,443 --> 01:24:17,235 To die is to be no longer seen. 354 01:24:19,361 --> 01:24:20,611 All is truth. 355 01:24:23,196 --> 01:24:26,738 Man is unable to see his own face, 356 01:24:26,905 --> 01:24:29,781 just as he's unable to stare at his own eyes. 357 01:24:30,281 --> 01:24:31,364 If I were… 358 01:24:32,532 --> 01:24:34,991 "If not I, then nobody." 359 01:25:12,795 --> 01:25:13,920 Good morning, Ricardo. 360 01:25:15,379 --> 01:25:16,171 The yellow one. 361 01:25:37,845 --> 01:25:38,887 Good. 362 01:25:39,221 --> 01:25:44,013 Guess what. Switzerland just beat Bolivia 4-1. 363 01:25:45,181 --> 01:25:47,514 Haven't I seen this car before? 364 01:25:54,934 --> 01:25:57,310 Day 21 of the experiment. 365 01:25:57,810 --> 01:26:01,394 All around us, European post-electro garbage. 366 01:26:01,894 --> 01:26:05,104 We're reaching the airport motorway. 367 01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:08,188 A mile and a half to the right. 368 01:26:10,106 --> 01:26:12,232 "I'd love to fall in love with love. 369 01:26:12,398 --> 01:26:15,191 "Can you pass me a cigarette, please? 370 01:26:15,774 --> 01:26:18,192 "We are shadows of ourselves." 371 01:26:19,525 --> 01:26:21,318 Winter! Damn it! 372 01:26:22,401 --> 01:26:24,861 What the hell are you doing in Lisbon? 373 01:26:26,319 --> 01:26:27,778 Walking around, 374 01:26:28,528 --> 01:26:30,779 eating ice-cream on a big stick. 375 01:26:32,363 --> 01:26:35,864 In my spare time I'm recording sounds for a film about Lisbon. 376 01:26:36,030 --> 01:26:37,031 Nothing important. 377 01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:38,531 My film? 378 01:26:39,907 --> 01:26:42,658 I'm not doing that movie any more. 379 01:26:44,575 --> 01:26:46,159 Good to know. 380 01:26:51,327 --> 01:26:53,661 Thanks for the invitation, anyway. 381 01:26:54,078 --> 01:26:56,246 That was a long while back. 382 01:26:56,412 --> 01:26:58,413 You never showed up, matey! 383 01:26:58,788 --> 01:27:00,622 That's funny. 384 01:27:01,456 --> 01:27:03,331 Who's standing in front of you? 385 01:27:03,873 --> 01:27:07,791 And who's been living in your house for the last three weeks? 386 01:27:10,041 --> 01:27:13,502 Ricardo, why didn't you tell me? 387 01:27:14,543 --> 01:27:16,253 You don't speak much, do you? 388 01:27:16,419 --> 01:27:18,544 The boy's mute, you know? 389 01:27:19,044 --> 01:27:21,504 Maybe he didn't want you to know. 390 01:27:21,962 --> 01:27:26,297 Maybe he shouldn't be your only source of your information. 391 01:27:26,756 --> 01:27:30,173 Maybe, even, I was a little late, but… 392 01:27:31,257 --> 01:27:33,133 That's another story. 393 01:27:33,924 --> 01:27:35,425 I'm here now, 394 01:27:35,759 --> 01:27:36,842 that's for sure. 395 01:27:37,510 --> 01:27:40,093 It sounds like you're a little mad at me. 396 01:27:41,344 --> 01:27:43,720 Does it? At you? 397 01:27:44,470 --> 01:27:48,304 Well, any resemblance to any living person is strictly coincidental. 398 01:27:51,180 --> 01:27:52,973 Let me show you something. 399 01:27:53,140 --> 01:27:54,390 Where was I? 400 01:27:54,598 --> 01:27:57,266 "I'd love to fall in love with love…" 401 01:28:08,978 --> 01:28:11,020 Here's my film museum! 402 01:28:21,607 --> 01:28:25,233 In front of us, the big screen! 403 01:28:29,109 --> 01:28:31,152 Well, what's left of it. 404 01:28:38,404 --> 01:28:42,614 The projection room, but that's just a memory too. 405 01:28:46,073 --> 01:28:49,491 Images ain't what they used to be! 406 01:28:50,116 --> 01:28:52,159 They can't be trusted any more. 407 01:28:52,659 --> 01:28:54,910 We all know that. You know that. 408 01:28:55,618 --> 01:28:58,952 When we grew up, images were "telling stories" 409 01:28:59,119 --> 01:29:00,578 and "showing things". 410 01:29:00,953 --> 01:29:02,037 Now they're 411 01:29:02,578 --> 01:29:04,954 selling stories and things. 412 01:29:05,371 --> 01:29:07,955 They've changed under our very eyes. 413 01:29:08,247 --> 01:29:11,081 They don't know how to show anything any more. 414 01:29:11,248 --> 01:29:13,249 They've plain forgotten. 415 01:29:13,457 --> 01:29:15,708 Images are selling the world, 416 01:29:16,167 --> 01:29:18,125 and at a big discount! 417 01:29:22,752 --> 01:29:28,962 When I came here to make this movie I thought I could beat the drift. 418 01:29:30,046 --> 01:29:32,547 We talked about it, man, remember? 419 01:29:32,797 --> 01:29:35,881 I wanted to shoot in black and white on this hand-cranker, 420 01:29:37,007 --> 01:29:39,716 like Buster Keaton in The Cameraman. 421 01:29:40,091 --> 01:29:44,884 Cranking in the streets on my own, a man with a camera. 422 01:29:45,301 --> 01:29:47,802 E viva Dziga Vertov! 423 01:29:48,803 --> 01:29:52,304 Pretending that the whole history of cinema hadn't happened 424 01:29:53,054 --> 01:29:56,180 and that I could just start from scratch, 425 01:29:56,430 --> 01:29:58,514 one hundred years later. 426 01:30:05,183 --> 01:30:07,642 Well, it didn't work, Winter. 427 01:30:16,812 --> 01:30:20,396 That is, for a while it seemed to work, 428 01:30:20,563 --> 01:30:23,522 but then it all collapsed. 429 01:30:25,856 --> 01:30:28,441 I really love this city. 430 01:30:32,442 --> 01:30:36,734 And most of the time I really saw it, 431 01:30:38,485 --> 01:30:40,235 in front of my eyes. 432 01:30:42,820 --> 01:30:45,196 But pointing a camera 433 01:30:45,362 --> 01:30:47,238 is like pointing a gun. 434 01:30:47,572 --> 01:30:51,073 And each time I pointed it, it felt like… 435 01:30:52,239 --> 01:30:54,490 life was drained out of things. 436 01:30:56,450 --> 01:30:59,159 And I cranked and I cranked, 437 01:31:00,284 --> 01:31:03,368 but with each turn of the old handle 438 01:31:03,535 --> 01:31:05,036 the city was receding, 439 01:31:05,203 --> 01:31:08,870 fading further and further, 440 01:31:10,995 --> 01:31:13,246 like the Cheshire cat. 441 01:31:30,919 --> 01:31:32,795 It was becoming unbearable. 442 01:31:34,837 --> 01:31:37,004 Man, I took a real beating. 443 01:31:41,589 --> 01:31:44,006 That's when I called for your help. 444 01:31:44,757 --> 01:31:45,799 And for a while 445 01:31:46,924 --> 01:31:49,258 I lived with the illusion 446 01:31:49,467 --> 01:31:52,009 that sound could save the day, 447 01:31:52,551 --> 01:31:57,428 that your mike could pull my images out of their darkness. 448 01:32:00,054 --> 01:32:04,013 It's… hopeless. 449 01:32:04,305 --> 01:32:06,764 It's all hopeless. 450 01:32:07,306 --> 01:32:08,848 Hopeless. 451 01:32:10,807 --> 01:32:12,808 But there is a way, Winter, 452 01:32:12,975 --> 01:32:15,016 and I'm working on it. 453 01:32:15,726 --> 01:32:21,769 Listen. An image that is "unseen" cannot sell anything. 454 01:32:22,061 --> 01:32:23,644 It's pure, 455 01:32:23,811 --> 01:32:27,020 therefore true and beautiful. 456 01:32:27,187 --> 01:32:29,021 In one word: innocent. 457 01:32:30,939 --> 01:32:33,773 As long as no eye contaminates it, 458 01:32:34,148 --> 01:32:37,399 it's in perfect unison with the world. 459 01:32:38,816 --> 01:32:40,775 If it isn't seen, 460 01:32:40,942 --> 01:32:44,901 the image and the object it represents belong together. 461 01:32:48,486 --> 01:32:51,653 It's only once we look at the image 462 01:32:52,238 --> 01:32:55,655 that the thing in it… 463 01:32:56,822 --> 01:32:58,406 dies. 464 01:33:02,366 --> 01:33:04,075 There it is, Winter. 465 01:33:05,617 --> 01:33:08,534 My "library of the unseen image"! 466 01:33:10,577 --> 01:33:15,328 Every tape was shot with nobody looking through the lens. 467 01:33:17,287 --> 01:33:20,122 Nobody saw them while they were recorded, 468 01:33:20,288 --> 01:33:22,748 nobody verified them afterwards. 469 01:33:23,831 --> 01:33:28,332 I shot every goddamn one on my back! 470 01:33:30,750 --> 01:33:34,877 Those images show the city as it is, 471 01:33:35,043 --> 01:33:37,210 not as I'd want it to be. 472 01:33:43,129 --> 01:33:46,756 There they are, in the first sweet sleep of innocence, 473 01:33:48,881 --> 01:33:51,965 ready to be viewed by some future generation, 474 01:33:52,132 --> 01:33:55,133 with eyes different from ours. 475 01:33:56,384 --> 01:33:59,718 Don't worry, mate, we'll both be dead! 476 01:34:39,481 --> 01:34:42,065 Testing, testing, one, three… 477 01:34:42,232 --> 01:34:44,065 Two, three… 478 01:34:54,944 --> 01:34:56,028 This… 479 01:34:58,904 --> 01:35:01,905 This is a message for Friedrich, 480 01:35:02,321 --> 01:35:05,322 the king of the garbage image emporium… 481 01:35:14,200 --> 01:35:16,826 This is a message for Friedrich, 482 01:35:17,118 --> 01:35:20,119 the king of the garbage image emporium, 483 01:35:21,202 --> 01:35:23,162 the Dziga Vertov of the 1990s, 484 01:35:23,328 --> 01:35:26,788 the Einstein of the "unseen image". 485 01:35:26,954 --> 01:35:28,830 It's nothing to look at. 486 01:35:28,997 --> 01:35:33,498 It's only a message in a bottle, or rather in a bag… 487 01:35:33,707 --> 01:35:35,207 Very funny, Winter! 488 01:35:35,374 --> 01:35:37,333 You're into bags, aren't you? 489 01:35:46,295 --> 01:35:49,087 Oh, Fritz, did you get lost? 490 01:35:49,879 --> 01:35:52,255 Those toy-images have footed you. 491 01:35:52,963 --> 01:35:54,755 Now you're at a dead-end, 492 01:35:54,964 --> 01:35:56,589 your face against the wall. 493 01:35:56,756 --> 01:36:00,465 Turn around and trust your eyes again. 494 01:36:01,550 --> 01:36:03,841 No, they're not on your back. 495 01:36:04,051 --> 01:36:06,676 And trust that old hand-cranker. 496 01:36:09,010 --> 01:36:11,761 It can still turn out moving pictures. 497 01:36:13,011 --> 01:36:16,095 Why waste your life on disposable junk images 498 01:36:16,263 --> 01:36:19,306 when you can make indispensable ones 499 01:36:19,722 --> 01:36:21,431 with your heart 500 01:36:22,222 --> 01:36:24,515 on celluloid? 501 01:39:38,037 --> 01:39:40,579 That's all I had to say, Fritz. 502 01:39:41,080 --> 01:39:44,748 Moving pictures can still do what they were invented for 503 01:39:44,956 --> 01:39:47,165 a hundred years ago. 504 01:39:47,332 --> 01:39:48,915 They can stiff be 505 01:39:49,833 --> 01:39:50,875 "moving"… 506 01:39:51,125 --> 01:39:54,251 Your "nobody" friend Mr Pessoa 507 01:39:54,417 --> 01:39:57,460 wrote something that moved me: 508 01:39:58,502 --> 01:40:00,753 "In broad daylight 509 01:40:00,919 --> 01:40:03,629 "even sounds shine." 510 01:40:04,504 --> 01:40:06,463 Damn it, Friedrich! 511 01:40:06,630 --> 01:40:09,047 You're sitting in that car. 512 01:40:09,422 --> 01:40:11,298 Come on, move your ass! 513 01:40:11,465 --> 01:40:13,132 Finish your movie. 514 01:40:37,140 --> 01:40:38,682 I'm rolling, Winter! 515 01:40:39,891 --> 01:40:41,307 It's coming. 516 01:40:41,474 --> 01:40:45,226 It's behind you. Turn and shoot, quick! 517 01:40:46,184 --> 01:40:47,351 Let's go! 518 01:40:47,518 --> 01:40:49,894 Shit, it's a reverse angle. 519 01:41:10,651 --> 01:41:12,193 Shoot! 520 01:41:13,068 --> 01:41:14,527 Where's the handle? 521 01:41:15,403 --> 01:41:17,611 Stay there, stay there! 522 01:41:18,028 --> 01:41:20,487 – Where's the handle? – You've lost it? 523 01:41:20,695 --> 01:41:23,405 The light's right. It's now or never! 524 01:41:27,031 --> 01:41:30,448 Winter, roll, roll! 525 01:41:34,325 --> 01:41:36,075 No, you're shaking too much. 526 01:41:36,242 --> 01:41:40,327 I can't see a thing. It's a tunnel, it won't print. 527 01:41:41,161 --> 01:41:42,912 The damn handle! Turn! 528 01:41:43,120 --> 01:41:46,454 Stick to the mikes, you're a lousy operator. 529 01:41:47,746 --> 01:41:48,997 Now you're talking! 530 01:41:50,747 --> 01:41:52,540 What angle is that? 531 01:41:54,415 --> 01:41:56,249 The light's right. 532 01:41:56,416 --> 01:41:57,791 The handle again. 533 01:41:57,958 --> 01:42:00,583 This camera's driving me crazy! 534 01:44:05,292 --> 01:44:07,334 Subtitling by TVS – TITRA FILM