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FILMS by claudia tomaz

DIGITAL FILMS 2008 - 2011
	LONDON GROUND web series online, 2009-11 feature film, 54 min	LONDON GROUND consists of a web series of short experimental films made in collaboration with artists (music, film, art, activism) in London 2010. The artists invited are not mainstream ones, but people with dreams and their feet on the ground. LONDON GROUND gives EXPOSURE to artists, through showing their work online and creating a linked artist’s community! Full episodes online. DVD with feature version soon! Directed, + Camera, sound, editing by Claudia Tomaz.
	FEEL ME music video	FEEL ME is a music video, a visual remix of a scene of my film 'Us' (feature film, 2003). Music by Flore and Shunda K, released at Botchit and Scarper. Directed, edited by Claudia Tomaz
	TIMELESS LAND documentary, 2009 DV, 34 min	Timeless Land is a visual poem inspired by Kevin Walsh's life. The images are guided by his music when he was a ‘Full moon scientist’ (his band with Steve Rowlands - with albums at Hard Hands and Botchit&Scarper), music that expresses Kevin’s cosmology and wonders through Time and Imagination. Part of the underground music scene of the 90's, Kevin was also a punk-rocker, a poet and a Dj. This film is a special homage to him and his music. A 14 min remix version integrates London Ground series. Directed + Camera, sound, editing by Claudia Tomaz.
	ONE LOVE documentary, 2009 DV, 37 min	One Love is a personal road movie in Jamaica. I was there, trying to see the world with a beginner's eyes... A film about grief and the beauty of life. Deeply human. Directed + Camera, sound, editing by Claudia Tomaz.
	THE LIGHT SURGEONS documentary, 2008 DV, 50 min	THE LIGHT SURGEONS, is an interview with Chris Allen, artistic director of multimedia collective TLS. The interview was conducted by Kevin Walsh on the 6th August 2008 and Sérgio Cruz filmed it. It took place at TLS studio in east London. Directed and edited by Claudia Tomaz. Chris Allen tells the history and influences of this collective of artists based in London. He gives a very wide perspective of what (live) cinema is in a land of contamination between arts; it follows the progression from analog to digital, from visual based projections to the production of content and music resulting in complex, original and compelling film-performances, 'jamming with reality, truly inter-active-media'!
	TRAVELOGUE experimental documentary, 2008 super-8 - 12min	TRAVELOGUE is a road movie, a documentary in dub. Made in super-8, it crosses Portugal and Spain by car to arrive to Morocco. An impressionistic journey through time and space with sound design by The time travellers (Claudia Tomaz and Kevin Walsh) using unreleased music by Full Moon Scientist and Wlad Ighetto a hip hop band from Fes. Camera by Pedro Urano. Directed and edited by Claudia.
FEATURE LENGHT FILMS (35mm) 1999-2003
	NÓS \| US feature film, 2003 35mm - 100min	A film about solitude, the difficulties of communication and the search for love. 'Nós' places Francisco and Angela in an ambiance that oscillates between the realism of everyday routine and the dream-like power of their encounters. The film embodies the ambiguous and contradictory feelings of the two characters by prioritizing images over words, and silence over language. Written, directed and edited by Claudia Tomaz. BOCALLINO AWARD Locarno Film Festival 2003, Switzerland
	NOITES \| NIGHTS feature film, 2000 35mm - 73min	NIGHTS focuses on the banality and brutality inherent in everyday life of a heroin addicted couple. In NIGHTS a simple story turns into a raw and chilling film, a fiction shot as a documentary. Written, directed, staring and edited by Claudia Tomaz BEST FILM AWARD CRITICS WEEK Venice Film Festival 2000, Italy NOMINATED FOR BEST FILM Gijon Film Festival 2000, Spain
DOCUMENTARY \| EXPERIMENTAL FILMS 1995-2007
	BALLAD OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEPENDENCY documentary, 2007 DV - 33min	Computers, internet and cell phones introduced a completely new life style and changed human relationships. This is an intimate documentary exploring the relationship between people and technology. The film is composed by using portraits of single people who talk or improvise their stories… Camera, sound, editing by Claudia Tomaz.
	SUBLIMINAL 3 meditative video pieces, 2006 DV - total: 45 min	SUBLIMINAL is a 3 video pieces. Using a meditative style, the videos were conceived for installation. 'Life inside' is about seasons and change, I filmed trees in 5 different seasons, how do they change? how do I change with them? 'Subliminal city' is a discovery of a city of skyscrapers through the window of a car. 'Space in between' is about the essence of travelling, of being on the way, it features images from Venice, South Korea, Canada, United States and Portugal. Camera, sound, editing by Claudia Tomaz.
	CANTAI CANTIGAS \| SING SONGS documentary, 1999-2005 DV - 50min	Trás-os-montes, a poor region in the north of Portugal. 2 trips, summer and winter, searching for people and songs. Bruno, 8 years-old ‘sings with the tapes’. Deolinda ‘walks with the cows’ and show us the village cemetery that ‘has a lot to see’. Ti Ana, 90 years-old, sings songs by the fire with the neighbors who ask her to ‘sing another one’. Oral tradition songs, learned from her mother and grand-mother, sang in ‘mirandes’ a local dialect. The songs tell us tragic stories that might remind one of Shakespeare. Camera, sound, editing by Claudia Tomaz.
	SEARCHING FOR CHARACTER experimental film, 2002 DV - 25min	To film the quotidian. To search for a character... in film there is the shot, the camera position, the frame that creates the space, the gesture, that forces actions. All this creates limitations. The biggest limit is for the man who is in front of the camera: searching for the character, vulnerable, trying to fit the frame, trying to make significant things. In this project I wanted to test those limits: what is to film and act alone in the frame? How to stage daily life? How to film the vulnerability of a man? I started to work all by myself with Joao Pereira, the actor. Directed + Camera, sound, editing by Claudia Tomaz.
	DESVIO \| DETOUR experimental film, 1997 Beta \| DV \|super-8 - 50min	DETOUR is the result of some experiences, like playing with the representation of actors and non-actors mixed together or pushing the boundaries of fiction and documentary, creating a new hybrid film experience using different formats like film and video. The film was made as a work-in-progress with different detours on his way. Directed + Camera, sound, editing by Claudia Tomaz. AWARD NEW YOUNG CREATORS Clube Artes e Ideias, 1998 Portugal / Italy AWARD BEST FILM VIDEOLISBOA Video Lisboa Intern. Film Festival, 1999 Portugal
	OLHOS CLAROS \| CLEAR EYES experimental fiction, 1995 DV - 25min	Is about lyric, ironic and absurd love. About the existencial emptiness. About the search of a meaning to things, about the fear of death... Maria speaks with dead people and has meetings with characters out of reality. Imagination can fly and in that process the absurd becomes surreal. The movie scenes are like paintings, with elliptic relationships, opposite to the traditional narrative of cause and effect. Directed + Camera, sound, editing by Claudia Tomaz.