A Seda é um Mistério | The Mistery of Silk
Catarina Alves Costa | 2003
DVcam | 36'

[Synopsis]
Teresa Frade climbs up to the last amoreira tree in the central square of Castelo Branco (Portugal), looking for food to feed her silk worms. This film, directed in the dwan of the 21st Century, brings us back, in a surprising way, to silk’s most ancient production techniques. It also contributes to a profound knowledge of this textil activity, which has been practised domestically and tradicionally mainly in two rural areas of Portugal, Trás-os-Montes and Charneca beiroa.

[Credits]
With: Maria Teresa Frade and Lúcia de Jesus Mateus
Directed by Catarina Alves Costa
Image: Catarina Alves Costa
Sound: Olivier Blanc
Editing: Pedro Duarte
Production: Laranja Azul
Assistant producers: Rita Forjaz and Patrícia Faria
Support: POC and European Regional Development Fund (EU)
Project Coordinator: Ana Margarida Ferreira
Scientific orientation: Benjamim Pereira
Assistant coordinator: Cláudia de Noronha
Promotion: Cristina Ribeiro

[Awards]
Best audiovisual work in ICOM - UNESCO's International Counsil of Museums.
Best museum video in the International Festival of Museology in Taipei, Taiwan (2004).