Video clip - "Hygienic Walk"

We aim to raise funds to produce the video for “Passeio Higiénico”, music that is an imaginary walk through Porto during the state of emergency.

We aim to raise funds to produce, direct and post-produce the videoclip for a track called "Hygienic Walk". This song, written and produced under my new alias, peak pocket, fixes and transforms some impressions manifested in short walks I had across the city of Porto (Portugal). Such walks took place during state of emergency, a period when Portuguese government limited free movement to 15 minutes per day due to COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This track is aesthetically influenced by hip-hop and electronic music.
I have been imagining the possibility of associating “Hygienic Walk” with new images since I started to write the song. Thus, this campaign arises as a real opportunity to materialize such transformation: here's the reason why I am now asking for your contribution!

I joined Diogo Ferreira for conceiving this video clip since we shared a large part of confinement days and collaborated on several projects throughout the last seven years (Damaia dj'acaba ma inda nu sta pa li, Clandestino ou Homem Novo, Ponto, One Minute Pandemic, etc). By taking into account the coverage of the circumstances which started last March with COVID-19 pandemic, we realized we could try to make our visuals 'travel abroad'. What do we mean by this? We intend to create an uninterrupted tour between Porto, São Paulo and La Paz, in which a 'universal citizen' is obliged to deal with different elements imposed by local governments. The 'hygienic walk' became a common experience in different parts of the world and the only possible escape from mandatory lockdown: in Portugal, going out of home was only allowed for a maximum period of 15 minutes; in Bolivia, each citizen had the right to go out only a day per week and such decision would rely on citizenship's personal data. Suddenly, using drones became legitimate and normalized for police forces to encourage citizens to stay at their homes. Abrubptly, in the context of a global crisis, governments ended up taking powers they did not meet under normal circumstances.

The opportunity to exchange ideas with visual artists who were confined in Brazil and Bolivia made us rely on the variety of ways used to regulate these limited walks. It thus led us to invite such artists to collaborate creatively on "Hygienic Walk"'s video clip. This collaboration will include the shooting of two scenes in the cities of La Paz and São Paulo, as well as some technical development of the film's special effects: facial recognition, drone as a scenic element of video surveillance and... deep fake, a proccess which synthesizes images and / or human sounds based in artificial intelligence techniques!

We intend to create an audiovisual object that departs from Portuguese reality and crosses different elements verified in other parts of the world. We want to create an opportunity for reflecting by using fragments of the unusual moments we are commonly living in right now.
We invite you to listen to the music and contribute to the creation of this international 'hygienic walk'!

Passeio Higiénico (Foto de Margarida Andresen)

About the author

Daniel Veloso a.k.a. peak pocket
Influenced by modern hip-hop, peak pocket , Daniel Veloso's new musical project finally leaves his room in times of confinement. The fascination with rhythm and poetry now experienced through the eyes of someone who also needs to expel.
In what concerns artistic expression, Daniel (Lisbon, 1993) has been working mainly as a film director since he graduated in Communication Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In 2016, Damaia dj'acaba ma inda nu sta pa li, a documentary codirected with Sofia Lemos Marques, had its world premiere in Verdes Anos section at Doclisboa Film Festival. Fog (2018), his first short fiction film, is a free adaptation of a short story by Portuguese writer Mário Dionísio and was selected to several national and international festivals .
In mid-2018, the desire of experimentation led him to venture into electronic music production under the alias Freddo Espresso . During this process, he also dedicated himself to the writing of lyrics for the songs now taking part in "traPIA", his first EP as peak pocket, scheduled to be released in August. 

Diogo Ferreira (Guimarães - 1993) is a visual artist, videographer and filmmaker based in the city of Porto / Portugal. He graduated in Communication Sciences at FCSH Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2014 and collaborates regularly with Portuguese avant-garde director Edgar Pêra since January 2015 as assistant of 3D production, production, annotation, editing and post-production (O Espectador Espantado - 2015; Delírio in Las Vedras -2015; Mar Portuguez - 2016; Arkivos Kino-Pop - 2016; Caminhos Magnétykos - 2017; The Nothingness Klub - 2020).
He directed, produced and edited six short films (Pinheiro, 29 NOV 2015; Filho do Demo; VACATION 2016 H ”& $; LX TOUR MIX (with Francisco M. Gomes); PANGEIA (with Caio Vinícius) and One Minute Pandemic (w / Daniel Veloso aka peak pocket ); two video clips (IVY'S HANDS | Nightfall (w / Francisco M. Gomes) and Janeiro - FAITH + SOFT); a video installation and a web-series (CONSONÂÊNCIA DISSONÂÊNCIA and JANEIRO SESSIONS (c / January)) In parallel (2015/2020), he has been building an online video archive of live acts of music, dance, performance and theater (David Maranha; DIE VON BRAU; Random Gods; Citizen Kane; Polido; Yong Yong ; (with WEIV collective); Carla Boregas - Black Shabaat / Casa do Povo e Zona Morta / SESC Vila Mariana; Korina Kordova - Sinuosity: The Muse / São Paulo Image and Sound Museum; Manoela Rangel - THIS IS OUR LAST DANCE / British British Center; Will Lopes - KAGEBARA / Cª Capital 35; and Fronte Violeta / Madame Satan. * Available at https://cargocollective.com/diogomachadoferreira .

peak pocket (Foto de Margarida Andresen)

Budget and due dates

SCHEDULING

15-30 September - Pre-Production
15-20 - Script (re)writing 
20-25 - Repérage / Scouting
25-30 - Preparation

1-2 October - Production
1 and 2 - Shooting in Portugal
1 or 2 - Shooting in Brazil
1 or 2 - Shooting in Bolivia

4-12 October - Post-Production
4-10 - Editing
4-10 - 3D Animation
10-12 - Color Correction

Associate Producer - Bolivia
Iverint López (INT.CINE)
Bolivian filmmaker, Iverint was born in the city of La Paz on April 23, 1989 and studied at Escuela de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (ECA). His work includes a series of documentary short films, fictional short films and video clips where he worked as a director of photography since 2008. He is currently working in the post-production of two feature films shot in Argentina in 2018 (TRASMALLO) and in Mexico in 2019 (A CARGO DE ANTONIA). He is the founder of the Audiovisual Clúster of La Paz (Bolivia) and was in charge of its presidency during the first 4 years. He is responsible for the FIRA and FICIPROX festivals. He also works as a film director at the production company INT.CINE, in La Paz.

Associate Producer - Portugal
Luís Costa was born in 1993, in Porto. In 2014, he finished his Degree in Sound and Image, at the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Porto. As a young director, he worked on several projects in the audiovisual field, and his two first short films, directed it academic context, were recognized in several national and international festivals. He has also developed parallel photographic projects and video clips, among others.
He is co-founder and director of Pinehouse Concerts project. In 2017 he premiered O Homem Eterno and the film was awarded by Portuguese Film Academy with the prize for best short-film documentary. O Nosso Reino, his latest short film based on the novel by Valter Hugo Mãe, is in distribution and will premiere in 2020. Recently, he founded a film production company in Porto, in which he is developing several projects in different positions, from production to script writing. He is also pre-producing his next short film, making a documentary series on photography and writing his first fictional feature film.

Photography - Portuguese Team
Miguel da Santa (1990), lives in Porto. He has a degree in Sound and Image and a Master in Photography from the Portuguese Catholic University. He made some complementary studies in Cinema courses at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Brazil, and Media Arts at the University of Plymouth, in England. In cinema, he works as a cinematographer and is knwon by the work in the fiction short films O Nosso Reino (2020) by Luís Costa, Third Shift (2020) by Mário Macedo, Rio Entre as Mountains (2018) by José Magro, Pena Fria (2014) by Luís Costa, Viagem (2014) by José Magro and Rua da Estrada (2012), a documentary by Graça Castanheira which was nominated for Sophia awards. As a cinematographer he also integrated the television series 2 Minutes to Change Life (2019) and 4 Paths to Fátima (2018), working, in the latter, with directors Miguel Gonçalves Mendes and Rita Nunes. He edited the short film Pele de Luz (2018) and the feature documentary A Nossa Terra, O Nosso Altar (2020), both by filmmaker André Guiomar. At the moment, he is filming the feature documentary New Chung - A Força de um Touro, by André Guiomar, as well as starting to edit the first episode of Eclipse, a television series by Luís Costa.

Tiago Carvalho was born in Porto, in 1988. He has a degree in Sound and Image and a master's degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from Portuguese Catholic University. His work as a cinematographer has won several works in national and international festivals. He highlights Sophia Prize for best documentary short film by the Portuguese Cinema Academy in 2018 for O Homem Eterno (2017), by Luís Costa; the Bronze Lion in the Design category at the 2014 Cannes Lions, for Troll project of This is Pacifica studio; best feature film at the International Festival Indielisboa 2013, for É o Amor (2013), by João Canijo, as well as the prize for Take One Section at Curtas Vila do Conde International Festival in 2011, with the short film Artur (2011), directed by Flávio Pires. More recently, he worked at the image department of films such as Dulcineia, a fiction feature by Artur Serra Araújo as well as in short films  O Nosso Reino (2020) by Luís Costa and Terceiro Turno (2020), by Mário Macedo. He is also working in Eclipse, a television series by Luís Costa.

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