Onde está o Pessoa?

Onde está o Pessoa?

2024 · 63 min

In her visual essay, Leonor Areal invites the viewer to look in detail at a centenary film and at the dozens of people who appear after a concert, most of them men, in full suits and hats, many with mustaches. Among them, the poet Fernando Pessoa is sought.

Directed by Leonor Areal

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