After the Law
22.11.2021 – 11.01.2020, Solar. Vila do Conde
team:
Direction: Jonathan Saldanha; Staging: Catarina Miranda, Jonathan Saldanha; Cast: Ana Beatriz Silva, Ana Renata Polónia, Ece Canli, Igor Bisser, Hugo Silva, João Teixeira, Luísa Saraiva, Mariana Alves, Nuno Pinto, Waldijú Dinis, Joana Ribeiro, Marisa Silva, Beatriz Gonçalves, Coro Sénior Fundação Leal Rios, Grupo de Teatro da FEUP; Camera: Sofia Arriscado, Jonathan Saldanha; Video Post-production: Diogo Tudela, Jonathan Saldanha; 3D: Daniel Martins, AALTAR; Color Grading: Marco Amaral; Sound Design: Jonathan Saldanha; Additional Sound Design: João Polido; Lighting: Rui Monteiro, Teresa Antunes, Rui Simão, Catarina Miranda, Jonathan Saldanha; Portuguese Sign Language Interpreters: Fátima Ferreira, Sara Sousa; Executive Production: Sara Gomes, Filipa Alfaro; Production: SOOPA; Co-production: Curtas Metragens CRL; Support: DGArtes, Culturgest, GDA, Agrupamento de Escolas Eugénio de Andrade; Acknowledgments:
Júlio Mendes Rodrigo, Paulo Vasques, Fátima Marinho, Reitoria da UP, Paulo Vinhas, Olinda Cardoso, Juan Luis Toboso, Francisco Queimadela, Mariana Caló, José Cordeiro, Mala Voadora, Temps d’Images, Teatro Municipal Rivoli;
After the Law is a short film in which a tribunal of humans and objects is contaminated by an unknown accident that has eroded speech and fractured the law. Through a toxic mutation of roles and forms, evidence and gestures, the tribunal’s capacity for deliberation collapses. Filmed as a live performance using a camcorder, this system was conceived as a cybernetic mechanism for haptic responses, where collective drive collides with a synthetic voice. The choral voices were recorded in states induced by hypnosis — a broken voice haunting a political paradox within a process of reverse bioengineering.
