Young American expatriate Jake and a slightly older French woman, Mati, once experienced a brief and passionate connection in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the consequences of time. Porto innovatively combines diverse film formats, the Super 8, as well as the 16 mm and 35 mm films.
“Documentary vs. fiction? Making fiction feature is so different while you have to invent things as opposed to just observing and documenting things. There’s a real schism between documentary filmmaking and narrative filmmaking and I think because of that it takes different personalities. There are very few people who can do both and do both well, and I’m finally starting to understand that, why that schism exists. Man, but it’s so challenging, first of all to create something from scratch and then to visualise that in your head before you have to face the material constraints of it.” (Gabe Klinger)
Gabe Klinger
Born in 1982 in São Paulo, critic, teacher, archivist, curator, and filmmaker Klinger has lived in the US since the age of six. He has taught film studies at the University of Illinois and Columbia College in Chicago. His feature documentary, Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater, won the Lion Award for Best Documentary on Cinema at the Venice Film Festival. f