Drifts (film)

Drifts (Derivas) is a Portuguese feature-length film by Ricardo Costa (autobiography, comedy, docufiction, metafiction, experimental film). The film is set in Lisbon, city which it portrays. It is the second independent film from an autobiographical sequel trilogy on Time and human wanderings.

Mists, the first film of the trilogy, opened at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 and released in New York at the Quad Cinema in 2011. The third and last film of the sequel is Cliffs (Arribas), film in post-production, in which the protagonist goes back to his homeland via time travel. There he will face disquieting situations and puzzling characters.

Plot

"A portrait of Lisbon drawn through the peregrinations of two unfitted venerable brothers across the city." (Cit. producer)

Production

• Producer Ricardo Costa (RC filmes)
• Production – 2009/2013
• Post-production – 2014/2016
• Locations – Lisbon, Portugal
• National permiere – 15 January 2016, organized by the University of Évora
• World release – 2017

NOTE: «Self-financed film with the collaboration of students from several Lisbon film schools and universities, close friends, trustful citizens, private and public institutions». CIT producer's words

Cast

• Ricardo Costa: Ricardo (the photographer) and his brother António (the clockmaker)
• Joana Duque: Mariana
• Luis Cousinha: Antonio’s clockmaker friend himlself
• Fernando Correia de Oliveira: the Time historian himself
• Paulo Crawford: the astrophysicist himself
• Helder Costa: Lunetas
• Duarte Silva: the crazy young man
• Guya Accornero: historian, herself
• Goffredo Adinolfi: historian, himself
• Lígia Pereira: herself
• Argentina: herself
• Quim: himself
• Lisbon dwellers: themselves

Credits

• Script – Ricardo Costa
• Director – Ricardo Costa
• Editing – Ricardo Costa, Pedro Caldeira
• Cinematography and camera – Miguel Serra, Ricardo Costa
• Sound operators – Nuno Cruz, Nuno Sopa, Pedro Melo, Ana Reis
• Camera assistants – Hugo Alho, Miguel Malheiros, Edivaldo Simões, Ana Teles, Ricardo Duarte, Nuno Antoniotti, António Marques, David Marques, João Brandão, others
• Co-editor, technical assistant, DCP builder – Pedro Caldeira

See also

• Dérive
• Docucomedy
• Docufiction
• Documentary comedy
• Flâneur
• Guerrilla filmmaking
• Metafilm
• No budget film
• TAXI, a film on Tehran by Jafar Panahi (2015)

External links

• – film site (official)

• DRIFTS – film illustrated (promotion)
• Trailer (long version)
• Theory of the Dérive (urban drifts) at Bureau of Public Secrets
• What can we expect beyond the human, (future technologies) article by Bert Oliver at Thought Leader