Prizes
Prize | "Video 'À parte da vida' by Helena Caspurro wins International Award at the 28th Avanca Film Festival"
“À parte da vida,” the video for one of the original songs from the album Massaiá by Helena Caspurro, a researcher at INET-md, was awarded the prize for best Trailer in Motion and Video Clips in the international competition of the Avanca Awards, held last July as part of the 28th edition of the Avanca Film Festival.
The Avanca Film Festival, organized by the Avanca Film Club in partnership with the Estarreja City Council, aims to highlight the perspective of contemporary production in cinema, television, video, and multimedia. This competition also serves as a space for creative workshops, conferences, exhibitions, and debates, where a significant number of internationally awarded films are presented in an atmosphere of sharing with their creators.
"À Parte da Vida" is one of the songs from Vol. 1 of the album Massaiá, published in 2023, and is also one of the videos that is part of that work and publishing project. The song, with lyrics by the songwriter's sister to whom it is posthumously dedicated, is, as a musical, poetic, and video graphics work, an omnipresent memory and account of the earthly journey of a woman who made the fullness of feeling and being the voice and announcement of her tragedy. Marked by the incommensurability of sisterly love and the sadness of mourning, the video musically flies over a set of writings, notes, objects, artifacts, and people from the intimate life of Joana Caspurro, this woman-girl and poet, in an almost liquid or ethereal atmosphere, as if trying to express the movement of her own emotion, weaving longing and loss, including of herself. It closes with a celebration of the eternity of life beyond existence in matter, symbolized in a section of the chorus sung in chorus by a group of close friends of the honoree at the time of the recording of the theme and the album.
As a product and a creative and transdisciplinary process, the award-winning video embodies one of the aims of the musical and artistic project led by Helena Caspurro, Spaces of Sound: Massaiá in the recreation of polyphonies of meaning which is taking place as part of INET-md's Internal Projects. This project aims to explore and study the possibilities of dialog between music, visual arts, video, and multimedia, in a search for holistic paths of contemplation, (re)construction and intensification of meanings, and thus of the very (i)material identity of that musical work, which is still under construction.
