Hanspeter Ammann

Shanghai Night

Hanspeter Ammann

Benny, Kevin Maxim

Two lonely customers meet in an empty Shanghai bar late at night. They seem attracted to one another yet unable to really connect for long.

Ruben's Choice

Hanspeter Ammann

Bernardo Lacerda, Rúben Filipe Gonçalves

Ruben can’t decide. Women or men.

Public Scenes

Hanspeter Ammann

The title is ironic in that the majority of the scenes are modest domestic portraits (a suburban dinner party, for instance, or a family enjoying a lazy afternoon) where latent emotional tensions only just break the surface - to be intuited rather than grasped directly. It is the recording apparatus that seems to capture these intangible currents and bring them under public scrutiny.Yet the status of what we are seeing remains indefinite, since the camera can also function as a catalyst. Do we really glimpse the inner 'truth 'of these individuals - or is it merely discomfort at the fact of being observed? A work of structured ambiguity that tests the camera 's capacity for violence.

Sunday

Ricardo Vieira Lisboa, Hanspeter Ammann

Isabel Ruth

On a Sunday an older actress (Isabel Ruth) decides to use her mobile phone to take photos of a sleeping young actor (Joaozinho Costa)