AUGUSTA

   
 
  Portugal, 2008, EXP, Betacam SP, Colour, 7'23''
Director: Vasco Araújo
Script: Vasco Araújo
Photography: Vasco Araújo
Editing: Pedro Reis
Voice Over: Peter Shaw, Walter Bilderback
Original Idiom: English
Subtitles: Portuguese
Synopsis:

The video “Augusta”, was shot in Washington and is based on Aristophanes´ comedy The Birds. It features a dialogue between two stone lions on the establishment of a new city and an ideology to oppose the oppressive regime of the Old City. Despite the attempt at newness, the new city proposed, the ways it is to function socially, and the new ideology that governs it turn out to be as oppressive and imperialistic as the Old City’s.

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