“From this series of so-called ‘damned’ Portuguese cinema, there is perhaps no film as bizarre and as heteroclite as O Som da Terra a Tremer, the first feature film from Rita Azevedo Gomes, who would not return to cinematographic fiction for another eleven years with Frágil Como o Mundo.
(…) When the Cinemateca held a preview of O Som da Terra a Tremer (and ‘preview’ is a manner of speaking, as the film never had a formal premiere), there was…

when i was 10 my parents put me on a plane alone to go spend the summer with my maternal grandparents. my grandfather was quite sedentary by then but my grandmother took me to yoga with her and taught me how to ride a bike and to curl my hair with paper strips and grow a plant from a seed and i made friends with a lot of the other kids in the building and helped this one girl sophia…