The Seasons

In weaving together these disparate threads of narrative, Fazendeiro’s sumptuous film offers an alternative form of geographical mapping, in which a landscape can be read like a text or a poem, to be preserved and passed on to future generations.

Within the nuances of "The Seasons" I recognised Fazendeiro’s own playfulness in engaging with materiality – the reconstruction and recreations of the past, the weight of memory, the temporal clashes.

Fazendeiro interweaves her gaze through Alentejo’s history like a living tapestry in motion, observational but intentional, depicting in it a serenity of existence that teems with both mythological and scientific potency.

Fazendeiro uses cinema as an instrument for excavating the various layers of history contained within any given landscape. [The Seasons is] a complex work of human geography.