Bedrooms
“Ground control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven). Commencing countdown, engines on (six, five, four, three). Check ignition, and may God's love be with you (two, one, lift off)”. As we were David Bowie’s astronauts, anybody is passing through this planet, learning lessons and performing various roles that fulfill our time in this place. Hard is to accept the departing moment, the farewell instant. However, should we keep a negative perspective about death, this natural flux inherent to life? Bedrooms is an essay film which intends to articulate memories and reflections on death and mourning, carrying an essayistic, confessional, fragmented and playful tone as a pathway to philosophical and subjective digressions. Here, the camera becomes a pencil. Experiences and cosmovisions become narrative substrate. The filmmaker, author. The essay film, an artwork. This projection is circumscribed on the investigative scope of the dissertation Bedrooms: reflexivity and dialogism on a creation of an essay film about mourning and it is the first essayistic film approach over grief, the first audiovisual capsule of the future sequence.
Henrique Denis Lucas is a PhD student in Media Arts at University of Beira Interior and holds a Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Scholarship. He obtained his master’s degree in Communication and Information – Research line in Culture and Significance at The University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil (2018), after graduating in Social Communication – Editorial Production at The University of Santa Maria, also in Brazil (2014), both degrees with scholarships. He has experience on the field of Social Communication, mainly investigating about Graphic, Audiovisual and Sound narratives, Educommunication, Film studies, Cultural Studies and Audience. He lectured educommunicational workshops of comics production and filmmaking to socially vulnerable schools and, recently, he was awarded with the Trajetórias Culturais – Mestra Griô Sirley Amaro prize for his work on the arts and communication research field in Rio Grande do Sul, and the Artes Integradas – Lei Aldir Blanc prize, for the production of Ricocheto – Sulfur musical single.
