Synopsis
Following the migration of the Monarch butterfly, fleeing the North American’s cold to spend Winter in the pleasant mountains of Michoacán in Mexico, this is a wandering film through lake Walden’s frozen banks in Concord, New England, town where Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne look at each other in silence, under the snow in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Centre Pompidou
- Co-production : Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
- Foreign production company : Filmes Fantasma
Full credits (5)
- Screenwriter : João Pedro Rodrigues
- Director of Photography : João Pedro Rodrigues
- Editors : João Pedro Rodrigues, Tomás Paula Marques
- Sound Recordist : Nuno Carvalho
- Producer : João Pedro Rodrigues
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary, Experimental
- Sub-genre : Research - Experimental
- Production language : English, Portuguese
- Coproducer countries : France, Portugal
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Portugal)
- Production year : 2016
- Runtime : 21 min
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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