Premiere "Out of Scene" | Documentary by Henrique Prudêncio

M6 108 minutes Free entry

Out of Scene observes the daily life of ArQuente, an amateur theater company where art is a territory of freedom conquered day by day. Here, each rehearsal is a choice: a hobby that transforms into a laboratory of self-discovery and unrestrained creation. However, in preparing the new work, the deadline for the premiere runs out without tangible results. During the process, we observe the coexistence of divergent motivations and the growing tension between individual visions and the demands of the collective, even questioning the need for a show.

Note of intentions: Gil, the director of this play, jokingly says at the end of this film that I ended up with this surreal documentary unfinished. And for many years, I thought so too. What initially was just a film to portray a process of a play from January to May, ended up extending into a therapeutic laboratory for its participants over a year. None of us were ready for this, with various difficulties felt during the filming process in having a fixed team without remuneration and motivation. Many times I found myself asking why I was filming that drifting group. However, I knew that, eventually, there would be a conflict. The tensions within the group were noticeable. Some wanted to be there to push their own limits, others wanted to present and contribute to an audience. And when António, our protagonist, leaves the rehearsal halfway, I was grateful to have had the patience after 9 months to discover what I was filming. This is a film about artistic processes. What leads a group to come together and want to present a play? Is it worth presenting something when there is nothing to say? Is the collective more important or the individual? All these are questions that I find pertinent and that took me 6 years to edit the film, six years later.