The Story starts something like this...
As part of my (Louis Minnaar) final year in communication design at the Open Window Academy in Pretoria, I had to complete a project that involved making a music video for any South African musician. I approached a friend of mine, Jacob Israel and asked him if I could use one of his tracks for the project. He agreed, and, to make a long story short, I entered it into a couple of International short film festivals. It ended up getting in to one... The Imago young international short film festival in Fundao, Portugal. The video is called: "Her Narnian Horse Analogy" featuring the awesome physical talents of Tamith Hattingh. (whoop whoop) Check it out here.
After the news, we approached Levi's Young Guns to hear if they would be able to sponsor our trip, and we ended up having a fund raiser in correspondence with them. We got super ill electro support from YESTERDAY's PUPIL, MTKIDU, AJAX, DATA TAKASHI & SASSQUATCH and MR. KNOWBODY, who all played for free. Just because they are cool like that. Whats more, two of our dear friends also approached us and offered to help us out with a most handsome fee... thanks guys.
So... Long story short, we got to go to Portugal and represent South Africa at the festival. Sweet!
Here are some of the digital pictures that I took...
arriving in Lisbon
the long drive to Fundao from Lisbon.
this dog had this sack hanging underneath it...
walking up the mountain.
jacob's cure for wet crocs
out towards the farm lands.
the imago building
rainy hike
my shortcut didnt impress jacob
hiking sticks
misrepresentation...
this made our sign language attempts easier and eliminated embarrassing noises like "moo..."
I think they might have thought that I will be escorted by a 2 dimensional, blond singer of sorts...
this might look good, but try eating it every day with only the option of ham, ham and cheese, or cheese...
strange habits- we actually saw this in a couple of places
shelter from the rain... not knowing about the coffee shop 30 meters away.
loved being stranded in the rain
our slot
the 50 euro bottle of champaign on the big night (photo by Dries Rengle)
...(photo by Dries Rengle)
Lisbon from our room
And then of course some of the lomographs:
rainy bicycle ride
the local cemetery
one of the locals
rainy cycle scenery
after cycling through about 3 towns from Fundao, we got to Fatela...
a little eatery of sorts
no, not ninjas, widows
a common sight in Fundao...
on the mountain, the semi- summit
I found this place with the softest, finest grass that looked like fog.
jacob cycling
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the streets of fundao.
on the way down the mountain there are little mountain towns with mountain people who dont like cameras
this was actually taken at the airport in Madrid when we just started our trip, so it needs to be up there ^ somewhere...
some weird looking people on the outskirts of Fundao
another common sight in Fundao
in case you were wondering, the shaped photos are cut-out cardboard masks that I put inside my camera over the film.
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the local baby dealer was just setting her merchandise out when we got there
yellow filter, x mask- fun!
