Miguel Bonneville

Thirty-five Portuguese dancers undress in front of the camera. They become the object of desire with a sensual provocative performance. Eclectic dance disciplines help this film to explore an exhibitionist view of the male nude. This is a statement about the current financial situation in Portugal and the lack of fundings to support artistic initiatives.

Inhabited by bodies that question love and death to the limits of madness, that are heard but not seen, and vice versa, Camera Obscura reveals a particular form of appropriation of the work of French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras. From the intersection of writing, video and sound, and his usual experimentalism, Bonneville creates a film made up of ghosts and mysteriously hypnotic and sensory images.

Composed of 3 episodes based on the biographies of Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Marie Antoinette & Friedrich Nietzsche. Having different life stories, they have in common a time of devastation in their personal relationships. Those moments of downfall bind them together.

"Let's say someone has been involved in a kind of love affair in a past that has become a ruin. A fear with two great faces weaves itself, forgetting. It pierces an idea of time, of personal pain, of public anguish. let's say that a place can lead to memories of love and suffering being exorcised. a place can impose itself, make you access the rarefied memory of a feeling that insists on remaining present."