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António, Zé Maria and João live in the House as they build it. For two years they restarted processes over and over according to their functions in the House. The transformations of the rooms forces constant changes in its organisation. The rooms for eating, dressing or relaxing change. As do the inhabitants. Time passes. The inhabitants move into and out of shot. The camera doesn?t follow them. It stays there focusing on the particular. Natural light invades the geometric spaces, intensifying as the work advances. The sound environment also changes. The silences intensify. The contrasts are stronger and stronger. At the end we see the men who make the film for some, the work for others, or simply a house.

Júlio Alves was born in Lisbon, 1971. He started really early to work in cinema and participated in 14 feature films as AD (assistant director), Sostiene Pereira, with Marcello Mastroianni is among them. In 1995 Alves directed his first short film, A Fachada (1995), followed by O Despertador (1996), Alferes (2000), Ossudo (2007) and O Jogo (2010). Meanwhile, he has done a documentary, 42,195 KM (2010) and he is currently filming A Casa (2011) another documentary, about the building process of a house of contemporary architecture that will be finished with the conclusion of the house, scheduled for September 2011.