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PENEDA-GERÊS  

PENEDA-GERÊS SLIDESHOW

 

           

 

 

«And we now offer you a bit of rum and a piece of bread, do you accept? How about a slice of tender meat or pork? Look, I give you! Nice and clean, the bread is from baker and the ham is also good. Would you like a piece of pork? I give you! And I’ll give to you in willingly...»

LUCINDA PILOTO (82) Pitões das Júnias, Montalegre, June 2011

 

Ana Bandarra (87) e Lucinda Piloto (82)

Pitões das Júnias

2'13''  JUN 2011 MEDIA-Films

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Etelvina Azevedo (81), Pitões das Júnias. It took “death” to raise her children (seven in all, five of whom survived), and now, that the final end is approaching, there is no desire for a second life. The crisis — or whatever we want to call it, because crisis has always been present — is calling faith into question. For Capitalism (as Sponville and Rimbaud say — and there is such a tragic poetry in the villages of the interior!) morality is a weakness of the brain. Here, there is little money to invest in sympathetic initiatives. For the elders, the threat of wretchedness is doubled: in many cases, there is no money to buy medication. Here is the sad result of the strange relationship we have with ourselves, in our concerns with life, with beauty and with the time to come. The exuberance (or “fatalism of happiness” — Rimbaud) of some, is the maiming of many others. It is urgent to stop and think about this.

 

 

 

 

 

TWO OLD LADIES, REALLY OLD LADIES

Pitões das Júnias, Montalegre

 

«Oh my dear pretty girl,

From Amarante blows the wind.

A girl, who speaks to all

Doesn´t wish to get married.»

MARIA DIAS CARVALHO

 

«The flower of the wasteland

Blossoms the rose whenever it wishes

It´s like the single man

While he hasn´t got a wife.»

MARIA TERESA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALL STORIES

 

 

 

 

 

   

THE BOYS' FESTIVAL

People from Miranda

 

VILLAGES IN THE BEIRAS' PROVINCE

 

HISTORIES OF THE SACRED & PROFANE

 

TRADITIONAL

MARKETS OF

NASO &

SENDIM

 

 

BARROSO

MOUNTAINS I

 

BARROSO

MOUNTAINS II

 

 

To live and

to die slowly

MONTESINHO

MOUNTAIN

 

ST. GONÇALO HAS GOT A

THOUSAND

LIVES

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

ALENTEJO:

A CASE OF SOLITUDE

 

 

PORTRAITS &

TRANSFIGURATIONS

 

BEYOND MARÃO MOUNTAIN

Northeast of

Trás-os-Montes

 

HOME ALTARS

 

THE ROUTE OF THE DOURO WINE

 

TRAIN LIVES:

Douro train

 
 

THE POOR

HAVE NO FAITH

   

 

 

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