Rua de Santa Catarina, a street that was formerly home to dozens of local businesses and hundreds of Porto residents, now sees a crowd of tourists attracted by the cheap, disposable amenities that are popping up everywhere at once. Gentrification has decontextualized Portuguese culture, rendering the landscape uncanny. The Basin Woman, a symbol of the female workers of the historic Bolhão Market, is chased down by seagulls in the midst of this transcendent chaos.
The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have inserted him in. After his metamorphosis, his soulmate, Paloma, makes him realize that life is as complicated as it is simple - and that all that's left to do is to live.
A formally free poetic documentary filmed through a summer depression in northern Portugal.
Fernando Sá Machado was born on October 7th 2004, in Braga, Portugal. He studied Visual Arts at Alberto Sampaio High School and is currently completing his bachelor's degree in cinema at the School of Arts of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, under a merit scholarship. His approach to filmmaking, photography, music, writing and plastic arts is DIY and cathartic by nature, expressing his search for humanness in art. He is one of the founders of the riz000ma collective, whose members share this sentiment.