Teaser of 21 years of love and pain

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The performance was filmed continuously for an hour and twenty three minutes. The video is a teaser of the performance piece and it shows images of two different cameras. A VHS-C, untouched for 21 years, kept inside the closet. Its last tape was my first bath as a newborn, and the last was the performance. The other camera, a Video8, was used by one of my dearest friends to record the performance in motion.

My parents met over twenty years ago in a discotheque called "Black and White", located in Guarda, Portugal, in the 1980s. My father described me over the years what it turned out to be the first memory he has of my mother, and it was this particular image he kept of her dancing alone to Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' "Down on Mission Street", wearing a dusty pink cardigan.
The year I turned 21 years old, I decided to travel to the city in which they met so many years ago, and I tried to find the exact place where my mother once danced.
In this video clip, I am getting ready to do a performance piece I called "21 years of love and pain", that took action in what now remains of the discotheque "Black and White". In the performance I danced to the song that was playing when they both met, in the exact location in which they met, wearing a dusty pink cardigan, like my father described. I danced 21 times to "Down on Mission Street", each time corresponding for a year of my life since my birth, because my father's memory is the closest I have ever been to finding a reason for my own existence.

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