Air Conditioner

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Air Conditioner is the first Geração 80’s fiction feature film. The film crew moved into the building with an open script, three main actors and a team with the dexterity to adapt and learn from the contingencies provided by the scenario, the residents and the unforeseen circumstances.

Filmed mostly using the natural light of Luanda during its coldest and greyest season, Cacimbo, the film privileges the characters and the context over the traditional narrative. The long sequence shots make us delve into the routine and inner world of Matacedo, without relinquishing our reality’s preciousness of detail. Every corner of the building wants to be contemplated and heard. The sonic chaos that characterise the city, and Matacedo’s semi-deafness, act as the story’s thread. The film unveils a city with its back turned to its inhabitants, the very same ones who keep it alive through their daily, invisible work, the stubborn concoction of a day-to-day life that defies confinement, abandonment and oblivion.

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