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Fatumata and Aissato, the mother and the eldest daughter of a large family originally from Guinea-Bissau, discuss love and happiness. At 7pm, from the third to the fifth floor where I live, a regular sound, always the same, like the beating of a heart, reverberates through the building. The installation invites the viewer to the space of the word and the dialogue between the mother and the daughter,and to the physical and acoustic setting of the building where this family and the filmmaker live. As a poem, a story, a letter and a prayer are spoken, words travel from one language to another, from one speaker and one voice to another, creating connections. With the diptych Third Floor, in a migration to the exhibition space, Luciana Fina once again uses cinematography to question cinema’s narrative forms and matter. ------------- TERCEIRO ANDAR is also a documentary film (62min), that had its premiere in october 2016 at DOCLISBOA`16

Luciana Fina has worked in Lisbon since 1991. Following a long collaboration with Cinemateca Portuguesa as an independent programmer, she made her debut as a filmmaker in 1998. Since then she has developed a practice that frequently migrates from the cinema to the exhibition space, as she explores the possibilities and potential of film within the sphere of the arts. In 2003, she began a series of video portraits that came together in the "O Tempo de um Retrato" [Time for a Portrait] project. Her work has been shown internationally at festivals and exhibitions. Her most recent documentary, “In Medias Res” [In the Midst of Things], was awarded an Honourable Mention at the Temps d’Images Films on Art Award and the Best Portuguese Film Prize at the Arquiteturas Film Festival. In 2016 she presents a new installation work, the diptych TERCEIRO ANDAR, at Doclisboa ‘16, section Passages, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, and she presents once again her first installation, CHANTportraits (2003), at Casa das Artes, Famalicão, and at Festival Temps d’Images, Lisbon. The film premiere of TERCEIRO ANDAR was at Doclisboa 2016, official selection in the portuguese competition.