ULTIMATE BLISS

Living in Lisbon and at a time in my life when a feeling of stagnation regarding my future hung over my shoulders, I met an Australian woman with whom I fell in love. We decided to get married, for love and for bureaucratic reasons. Marisa left a week after our wedding, and I would join her shortly. Based on our conversations and correspondence, I decided to register this bridge between the life I left and knew and an arrival on a lost island in the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, with feelings that I carry and leave behind, of memories and wishes. A gaze of the last moments in my country and the transition to a new one, with images that are familiar and others that come across with an almost supernatural effect. What dies and what remains, in a direct or more abstract way. This micro-narrative is told by my spirit and by images, narrated by my wife in the present time. A record that starts with a farewell letter and becomes a letter back to the person I love. This film itself is a note of intentions, not about a movie per se, but about my own life.