In 2024, Daniel Matos & João Catarino started on a video collection called ‘The Crying Cycles’. It’s a trilogy based on their thoughts about present time and how they see the need for detachment and abandonment to enable a totally new beginning to emerge. An idea of freedom in constant mutation and which we find no firm definition or image to describe.
In the second part, we understand that eyes can be cleansed through tears that come from outside, that repetition happens by way of schools and our inability to make decisions, and we don’t always come across a crossed body on our way. It was merely a wish to have an aquarium we can fit in and be able to breath with lungs filled with water.
In Crying Cycle 2 video-dance, Daniel Matos and João Catarino propose a dive with an end.
“ … because all I wanted was an aquarium.”
Duration: 10min.
Age rating: M/16
Artistic direction, concept and editing
Daniel Matos & João Catarino
Performance and co-creation
Joana Simões
Camera operation and editing
João Catarino
Soundtrack
Daniel Matos
Production direction
Joana Flor Duarte
Production
CAMA a.c.
Funding
CDCR Algarve
Daniel Matos (Lagos, 1996) is a choreographer, performer and visual artist. He has developed his work as a creator, artistic collaborator and performer both nationally and internationally. During his career, he has collaborated with Ana Borralho & João Galante, Angélica Liddell, Davis Freeman and Romeo Castellucci, among others. Since 2016, he has focused his work on the body as a field of biographical, physical and emotional research, questioning and redesigning the idea of limits.
João Catarino (Faro, 1991) has a degree in Photography and Post-production from Atelier de Imagem and a degree in Oil Painting from Nextart, Lisbon (2011), having exhibited his work at Lx Factory, MOB, Fabrica Features, PANTA magazine, Ever Magazine and Vice with We are Mitra. Since 2015, he has been working as a photographer and videographer, producing several music videos, promotional videos, documentary projects, video mapping, recording and editing videos of creations in the fields of dance, performance, theatre and music.