A MINHA MANEIRA DE ESTAR SOZINHO

MY OWN WAY OF BEING ALONE
Fiction | 35mm | 2008 | 15 minutes
Sponsored by: Petrobras

SYNOPSIS: Swede is a young man in his 20′s. He doesn’t know how to dance, how to flirt or how to relax. He would like to have someone to talk to, but he is alone. Except for Melissa, the only woman in the world who can understand him.

Watch the film: Daily Motion

- Shown in 10 festivals in Brazil and abroad, including Brasília (08), São Paulo (09), Amsterdam (Holland, 09) and Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse (France, 10)
- Purchased by TV Cultura and TV Brasil

Directed and produced by: Gustavo Galvão
Written by: Bernardo Scartezini
Director of photography: André Carvalheira
Art director: Maíra Carvalho
Editor: Marcius Barbieri
Sound editors: Miriam Biderman, Ricardo Reis
Soundtrack: Lucy and the Popsonics, Low Dream, Prot(o)
Cast: André Araújo, Silvia Lourenço



DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

To be understood without losing individuality. This is the dilemma of Swede, the main character of My Own Way of Being Alone. High and shy, he is the portrait of an youth incapable of adapting itself to a society of superficial relations. Everybody is strange for Swede, and so he is for everybody. Without the possibility of social adaptation, isolation arises. That explains the title of the film, inspired by a verse written by Alberto Caeiro, a pen name of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, in The Keeper of Flocks:

“I do not have ambitions neither desires.
To be a poet is not my ambition.
It is my own way of being alone.”

Despite its pop appeal, the film has an expressionist inspiration conceived to recover the aesthetic values of filmmaking. From acting to cinematography, everything serves as a base for discussing the emotional state of a unpredictable character.