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
Joaquim Pinto seems to reveal, penetrate and thus enable us to see and feel the force-field of a love in a way rarely found in cinema. Then comes the miracle of a sort of contamination, a contagious process, akin to art’s derisory revenge on epidemics, inoculating our gaze with the most intense and reconciliatory of relationships to the other, to nature, to the very substance of a world perpetuating its survival. (Julien Gester)
© Rui Gaudêncio
Crim Produções
Joaquim Pinto; Nuno Leonel
Joaquim Pinto; Nuno Leonel
Joaquim Pinto; Nuno Leonel
Epicentre Films