Non-dialogue
Year: 2024
Credits
Directed by: Nuno Serrão
Cast: Alicia Lewington, Andrea Oña, Duarte Nóbrega, Hélder Agrela, Mara Freitas, Mariana do Carmo, Matylda Kepa, Paulo Gouveia, Patrícia Lopes, Salvador Miguel
Camera: Nuno Serrão
Gaffer: Gustavo Gonçalves
Production Assistant: Andreia Rodrigues, Ana Bettencourt
Hair&Make-up: Nina Machado, Catarina Melim
Editing: Nuno Serrão
Production: urbanistas
Executive producer: Nuno Barcelos
Technical specs
Film running time: 3’
Format: ProRes444/ProRes422, colour, stereo.
Life, like time, is an experience correlated to the observer’s point of view.
And for a brief moment of coherence in the chaos of quantum mechanics, we gathered so the universe could witness itself explore the intangible.
A series of vignettes exploring the concept of the observer effect in physics, using it as a metaphor for how we perceive the world.
Through these vignettes, the film explores observation, perception, and the interconnectedness of all things, making us question the observer effect, and how it can shape our reality, both individually and collectively.
Astoria Film Festival | Official Selection (Kaufman The Zukor Theater, NY, 2025)
Shorts@Fringe | Official Selection (Museu dos Baleeiros, Azores, 2025)
Gstaadfilm Festival | Official Selection (TBA, Stockholm archipelago, 2025)
Atlanta Series Film Festival | Official Selection (Limelight Theater, Atlanta, 2025)
Blackbird Film Festival | Honorable Mention (Brown Auditorium Theater, NY, 2025)
NY Independent Film Festival | Official Selection (Producers Club Theaters, NY, 2025)
Independent Days International Filmfestival | Official Selection (Schauburg Filmtheater, Berlin, 2025)
The Poetic Lens | Gallery Exhibit (Millenium Film, Brooklyn, 2025)
PAMA LA Edition | Winner Best Experimental (Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory, LA, 2025)
Moinho Cine Fest | Official Selection (Matosinhos, 2025)
Post Cinema Festival | Winner Best Short Film (Ronco, Sicily, 2025)
Love & Hope International Film Festival | Official Selection (Barcelona, 2025)
Alt Film Fest | Winner Best Experimental Nominee Best Art Film & Best Cinematograpy (House of Culture, Toronto, 2024)
Festival Impacto | Winner Best Short Film (Cinema Turim, Lisboa, 2024)
Northern Lights Festival | Official Selection (Oslo, 2024)
Lisbon Indie Festival | Official Selection (Lisbon, 2024)
Blackbird Film Festival | Honorable Mention (Brown Auditorium Theater, NY, 2025)
Paris Art Movie Awards | Winner Best Experimental (Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory, LA, 2025)
Festival Impacto | Winner Best Short Film (Cinema Turim, Lisboa, 2024)
Alt Film Fest | Winner Best Experimental, Nominee Best Art Film & Best Cinematograpy (House of Culture, Toronto, 2024)
Non-dialogue
Year: 2023
Credits
Written and directed by: Nuno Serrão
Dancers: Rosa Rodrigues, Marco Olival
Camera: Nuno Serrão
Gaffer: Délio Gonçalves
Production Assistant: Andreia Rodrigues
Editing: Nuno Serrão
Production: urbanistas, Nuno Barcelos
Soundtrack: The Most Beautiful Boy – The Irrepressibles
Technical specs
Film running time: 3’
Format: ProRes444/ProRes422, colour, stereo.
Commissioned by: L Concerts
Quantum entangled particles are forever linked, no matter their distance in spacetime. Some of us are connected in these mysterious ways. Like the elusive realm of physics, love often presents itself as deciphered, only to unfold a new universe when a new theory is encountered.
This experimental short film tells a non-dialogue story about a relationship.
Berlin Dance Film Festival | Offical Selection (TBA, Berlin, 2025)
Paris Movie Awards | Nomination Best Dance (Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory, LA, 2025)
FiciMad | Winner Best Cinematography (Cine Paz, Madrid, 2025)
Blois Danse Festival | Winner Jury Award (Cinema Les Lobis, Blois, 2024)
San Francisco Frozen Film Festival | Official Selection (Roxie Theatre, San Francisco, 2024)
Festival RAKSA | Official Selection (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2024)
Astoria Film Festival | Finalist (Kaufman Astoria Studios, New York, 2024)
Azores Fringe Fest | Official Selection (Açores, 2024)
Braga International Dance Film Festival | Official Selection (Braga, 2024)
Opine Dance Film Festival | Official Selection (Philadelphia, 2024)
Greensboro Dance Film Festival | Official Selection (Greensboro, 2024)
Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico | Official Selection (San Juan PR, 2024)
Cinalfama Lisbon Screening and Awards | Official Selection (Lisboa, 2024)
InShadow Lisbon Screendance Festival | Official Selection (Teatro do Bairro, Lisboa, 2023)
Cinematica Videodance Competition | Finalist (Orfeo Tamburi Auditorium, Ancona, 2023)
Dance on Screen | Official Selection (Friendly Alien Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, 2023)
Los Angeles Dance Film Festival | Official Selection (Mimoda Studio, Los Angeles, 2023)
Girona Film Festival | Official Selection (Pl. De La Independencia, Girona, 2023)
Exeter Film Festival | Official Selection (The Hall Exeter, Exeter, 2023)
Mignolo International Festival | Official Selection (Mignolo Arts Center, New Jersey, 2023)
Metropolis Film Festival | Official Selection (Anteo Palazzo del Cinema, Milan, 2023)
Lisboa Indie Film Festival | Official Selection (Fábrica do Braço de Prata, Lisbon, 2023)
FICIMAD | Winner Best Cinematography (Sala Cátedra Mayor of the Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid, 2025)
Paris Art Movie Awards | Nomination Best Dance (Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory, LA, 2025)
Blois Danse Festival | Winner Jury Award (Cinema Les Lobis, Blois, 2024)
Astoria Film Festival | Finalist (Kaufman Astoria Studios, New York, 2024)
Cinematica Videodance Competition | Finalist (Orfeo Tamburi Auditorium, Ancona, 2023)
36 Girona Film Festival | Finalist (Casa de Cultura de Girona, Girona, 2023)
Mignolo International Festival | Finalist (Mignolo Arts Center, New Jersey, 2023)
Near Nazareth Film Festival | Finalist (Aliyat Hano’ar, New Jersey, 2023)
Music Videoclip
Year: 2020
Credits
Directed by: Nuno Serrão
Camera: Nuno Serrão, Pedro Sousa
Editing: Nuno Serrão
Production Assistant: Andreia Azevedo
Production: urbanistas, Men On The Couch
Cast: Ana Bárbara Correia
Bateria: Tiago Rodrigues
Baixo: João Rodrigues
Voz: Guilherme Gomes
Guitarra: Francisco Sousa / Guilherme Gomes
Rhodes: Guilherme Gomes
Soundtrack: Men On The Couch – Lua
Technical specs
Film running time: 4’12’’
Format: ProRes444/ProRes422, colour, stereo.
Commissioned by: Men on The Couch
Non-dialogue
Year: 2019
Credits
Written and directed by: Nuno Serrão
Camera: Nuno Serrão, Andreia Azevedo
Editing: Nuno Serrão
Production: urbanistas, Nuno Barcelos
Cast: Luis Daio, Cristina Bartleby, Helder Guimarães, Maira João Lobo, Paulo da Silva Lobo, Martim Lobo, Maria Lobo, Mafalda Lobo.
Soundtrack: Lonnie Holley – I Woke Up in a Fucked-Up America
Technical specs
Film running time: 2’
Format: ProRes444/ProRes422, colour, stereo.
Commissioned by: L Concerts
We are all on the same bus, but some of us are more awake than others. If we consider Einstein’s space-time concept, we end up with an object where everything that happened and everything that will happen, is understood inside. Through it, we are driven by a vehicle, let’s call a bus, completely autonomous, that goes in a single direction, to the front, and has a single window, the rear. This vehicle, astronomer Arthur Eddington called The Arrow of Time. This idea, although depressingly deterministic, is difficult to ignore in view of the already proven plasticity of time, even when we consider Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, where the act of observing something, alters its result. A concept that does not invalidate a deterministic Universe, rather, allows the Interpretation of Many Worlds by Hugh Everett, also known as Multiverse.
