PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, directors of the film Where Is This Street? Or With No Before And After.
João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata tell us about their unique film, which retraces the footsteps of Paulo Rocha’s The Green Years through the streets of Lisbon. A film that is a modern metropolitan symphony but also a great declaration of love for the Portuguese Cinema and life.
Where Is This Street? Or With No Before And After: From our window one can see a set of the 1963 film The Green Years. This was our starting point: guided by Paulo Rocha’s gaze, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of Lisbon, besieged by the pandemic that interrupted the shooting, are drawn out in front of our camera, like a contemporary jazz impro from a score written in 1963.