Love Forbids Us To Love (film)
Full feature film, 160 minutes, stereo sound, (2007- work in progress).
A full feature road-movie made entirely with still images exploring repetition to investigate memories, expectations and diasporas. The film is set in the car but the journey is a no-journey, and although the journey is motionless, the car is not. The character, which is never revealed, drives along Europe in an attempt to redefine his existence and construct new meanings from his memories and expectations. The character is immersed in a continuous process of reflection. The engagement with the places in which the car passes-by is minimal, most of the drive is made during the night when the landscape is only draw by the cars’ lights and barely visible. The meaning constructed is confined to everything that precedes the journey. The journey precedes the drive and, the drive is nothing else than an attempt to combat the need for the journey. The monologue takes the viewer through a journey, which is not his/her journey, but nevertheless is a reflective journey that transcends the film’s character; the reflective process becomes more important than the subject of that reflection.
© Miguel Santos, 2008