Fire of Wind
In the feature debut of Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus, a peasant community of vineyard workers at harvest time become characters in a timeless myth. Hiding high in the branches of oak trees from a dangerous runaway bull, they escape into dreams and memories.
Q&A with Marta Mateus on Sept. 28 & 29
In the feature debut of Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus, director of the acclaimed short Barbs, Wastelands (2017), a peasant community of vineyard workers at harvest time become characters in a timeless myth. Hiding high in the branches of oak trees from a dangerous runaway bull, they escape into dreams and memories, their experience evoking personal and political pasts as day descends into night. Set in the Alentejo region in southern Portugal, where Mateus grew up, Fire of Wind is both earthy and deeply symbolic in its imagery, its characters coming to embody the historical memory of the landscape, still haunted by Salazar’s mid-20th-century dictatorship.
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