EMMA NA TEMPESTADE

EMMA IN THE STORM
Fiction | 35mm | 2002 | 15 minutes
In co-production with Start Filmes
Sponsored by: Ministry of Culture

SYNOPSIS: A man and a woman see each other on a bus and exchange glances. A sensual game of insinuations starts, and the next day it happens again. The game ends on the third night, with the woman’s disappearance. Anxious, the man starts looking for her.

Watch the film: Porta Curtas

- Shown in seven festivals in Brazil and abroad, including São Paulo (02), Toronto Latino Film Festival (Canada, 02), Cine Esquema Novo (Porto Alegre, 03) and Curta Cinema (Rio de Janeiro, 03)
- Purchased by TV Cultura and Curta nas Telas (Porto Alegre)

Directed and written by: Gustavo Galvão
Produced by: André Luís da Cunha, Gustavo Galvão
Additional photography and color grading: André Luís da Cunha
Editors: Caetano Curi, Gustavo Galvão
Sound editors: Pauly Di Castro
Soundtrack: Frank Poole
Cast: Marcius Barbieri, Juliana Moreira Lima, Murilo Grossi, Klecius Henrique



DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

A person’s story is the result of confrontation between the rigidity of time and incorrect perceptions of it. Emma in the Storm is on this borderline – between the certainty of logic and the possibilities of imagination. In the center of the story are a disturbed man and a mysterious woman, who meet on a bus. From there on, everything changes.

After this first contact, doubt sets in. The film does not explain what is true and what is not. Thus, the spectator is left with the job of defining situations based on personal deductions. Free from time’s natural order, Emma in the Storm bases itself on a brittle structure. It is a glance into the obscure mind of P.

He wants to know what happened to Emma, who suddenly disappears. The spectator also does not know the facts. There is only one certainty: P is overwhelmed by feelings of paranoia and fear – of approaching someone, of facing reality. What brings these feelings about are loneliness and day-to-day life in an unique city.