“The Year of Abundance” is a crossover project between documentary recording and self-fiction processes. This work brings together archive footage of moments of parties, backstage and the lives of the members of the Rabbit Hole collective, to which the director belongs, captured since 2012 until now. From this archive and new footage, the film builds a reflection on friendship as a platform for the creative process, a look at growing pains and the alternative families that are created throughout life.
Personal and collective history are mixed in this film which, besides being a rare document of an important part of the alternative Portuguese queer movement of the 2000s, is an essay on memory, resistance, death and, above all, love.
CREDITS
DIRECTOR
Joana de Sousa
SCRIPT
Francisco Belard, João Estevens, João Robalo, Joana de Sousa, Mafalda Miranda Jacinto, Pedro Marum
PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTION
Joana de Sousa
ADIOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
João Cristovão Leitão
SOUND
Marcelo Tavares
EDITING
Deborah Viegas
PRODUCTION
Associação Cultural Rabbit Hole, Joana de Sousa
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF
Francisco Belard, João Estevens, João Robalo, Joana de Sousa, Mafalda Miranda Jacinto, Pedro Marum
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER
República Portuguesa – Ministério da Cultura
