Vista Curta ON, An online screening of films from Viseu
From 27 to 31 and October 2020
An initiative by Cine Clube de Viseu

We are pleased to confirm the exhibition at Vista Curta ON of the film “A esposa” (“The bride”) by Manuela Barile and Sérgio Cruz, produced by Binaural Nodar and based on an ethnographic investigation and recordings in the village of Sequeiros (São Martinho das Moitas and Covas do Rio Parish Union, Municipality of São Pedro do Sul).

“The bride” is a reflection on the ancestral importance of marriage and the crisis that every woman experiences on the day of the ceremony. Marriage has always been a major change in a woman’s life, leaving her family and the home where she was born and where she lived from a young age, to move towards an uncertain future. In order to overcome this moment of dramatic passage, the main character conceives her own ritual, which, in some way, will help her to give meaning to her restlessness and will be fundamental for her reintegration into the community from which she comes, calling thus the flow of memories from her ancestors, of which she feels to be the continuation.

“The bride” was based on an ethnographic research carried out among women from the village of Sequeiros (S. Pedro do Sul, Portugal), some of whom participated in the film with their accounts of their wedding day experience. The film’s soundtrack, a composition by Manuela Barile using vocal performance, electroacoustic composition and sound field recordings, is faithful to the inner world of these women, expanding and transforming it into an ancestral echo that resonates through the entire sequence of the film.

DIRECTOR: Manuela Barile and Sérgio Cruz
ARGUMENT: Manuela Barile
CAMERA: Sérgio Cruz and Paulo Quintela
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Sérgio Cruz
EDITING: Sérgio Cruz and Filipe Fernandes
SOUND: Manuela Barile and Luís Costa
SOUND POST-PRODUCTION: Marc Behrens
MUSIC: Manuela Barile and women from the village of Bondança
ACTORS: Manuela Barile, Adília Teixeira, Isaac Barile Costa

A production by Binaural – Associação Cultural de Nodar, 2012