E AGORA? LEMBRA-ME

A filmmaker who is also a leading sound engineer and producer, Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and hepatitis for almost twenty years. More than a film diary, E Agora ? Lembra-Me is the picture of a present that co-habits with an archaeology of individual and collective memory — of illness, cinema and Portugal. Here, filming involves not only snatching things and beings from disappearance — not only the living but also the dead, in some kind of resurrection — but also searching for a way of relating to the world. Joaquim Pinto works with an ever-renewed verve that is underpinned by his skilful editing and vast panoply of cinematic resources to convey a vivid and captivating story, full of inventiveness to put life in writing.

Aranud Hée