In my personal work, I explore everyday narratives through the spaces I inhabit and the memories I build in relation to them. Rooms, houses, streets, cities, and countries become starting points for investigating experiences, memories, and feelings awakened by our relationship with these spaces.

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This is the case with PRESSURE, my first short film, which grew out of a personal experience marked by anxiety and distress. Through a poetic and visual approach, I explored the space and objects of the house where I lived, exaggerating their characteristics to materialize these feelings as elements of the narrative. The space begins to reflect the character’s emotional state, creating a sense of confinement and constant tension. The film’s very construction also emerged from this impulse, experimenting with a combination of animation techniques such as watercolor, digital 2D, and stop motion to visually translate the chaos, instability, and overwhelming sensations that characterize the experience of anxiety.

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In Bolinho de Chuva, my second short film, I explore grief through the loss of the space where I spent much of my childhood, my grandmother’s house. According to the reflections of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, a house transcends its physical and architectural dimensions. It is a space that holds fears, affections, memories, and projections of the unconscious. Inspired by this idea, I began developing a narrative that seeks to explore the complexities of grief, not only as the absence of someone we love, but also as the loss of a place, an object, and a time that cannot return.

“The house is our corner of the world. It is our first universe. It is truly a cosmos.” — Gaston Bachelard