Film

Henrique Silva’s Radical Atelier

Emília Simão and Samuel Barbosa
Year
2026
Runtime
56m
Original Title
O Atelier Radical de Henrique Silva
Classification
M/12
Language
European Portuguese
Country
Portugal
Henrique Silva wasn't born an artist, he became one. He is a visual artist, in the arts of painting, sculpture and drawing, with representation in lyrics, video art and music. A master of multidisciplinary crafts, he is also a thinker, a man of elucidations and provocations. The film is structured in what Henrique himself calls a Polysemic Perspective, based on three vertices: Cosmology, Technique and Morality. Having revisited the past and the family context, we find Henrique in the present, aged 90, talking to the filmmakers in his home, which is also his studio, in Gondar.