Lacrau

João Vladimiro : 2013
Scorpion

If the viper could hear, and the scorpion could see, nobody would escape. The viper is deaf and the scorpion is blind, so it is and so shall it always be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return 'to the curve where man got lost' in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from the chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. Bewilderment, the fear of the unknown, the loss of basic comforts, loneliness, the encounter with the other, the other animal, the other plant. A dive in search of a connection with the world. Where beginning and end are the same, but I am not. João Vladimiro's documentary feature was winner of the Mejor Película Portuguesa and Árvore da Vida Award at IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival 2013, and screened in competition at Márgenes Film Festival 2014.