While We Are Here
Art of the Real 2019
April 18 - 28, 2019
This discreetly expanding fiction from partners Clarissa Campolina and Luiz Pretti traces through vivid montage and voiceover the relationship between two immigrants who meet while living in New York. Combining elements of the diary and travelogue film, While We Are Here captures the beauty and fragility of love and its memory.
Q&A with Clarissa Campolina and Luiz Pretti
Charting a relationship from its origins through its aftermath, While We Are Here follows the lives of Lamis, a Lebanese woman, and a Brazilian man named Wilson, who one day meet while living in New York. In alternating voiceover, the pair reflect on their impressions of the city, their courtship, and their eventual separation, as vivid images of urban and rural life trace Lamis and Wilson’s individual paths from New York to Berlin and Brazil, respectively. Equal parts diary film, travelogue, and epistolary drama, this discreetly expanding fiction from partners Clarissa Campolina and Luiz Pretti captures the beauty and fragility of love and its memory.
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