Portuguese Culture

“What I believe is that you just keep filming.”

Documentary, realism, and life on the margins.

Selections by Nate Wooley, Laida Lertxundi, and Sarah Gerard.

Portuguese cinema, dealing with illness, and “the tissue connecting the cosmic and the corporeal.”

“Cinema has lost its youth.”

This First Proof contains the story “Taking a Stitch in a Dead Man’s Arm.”

“I try to fight against the temple of fashion, you know. In terms of different interpretations and music being made there is the freedom to do everything, but you must feel it, not do it because it’s fashionable.”

Katherine Vaz recounts her experiences seeing Madredeus in Portugal, as well as the band’s haunting style.