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OPUS WHALES
Do you Copy?
current exploration on Anthropogenic Underwater Noise
Filmography
Virtuous Gestures
A Pandemic Editing
2020
"Gestures of an ancient and natural elegance ...artisanal gestures where what matters is the quality of the result... gestures that are still among us, but that seem to come from afar... gestures that make us think that maybe in a while they won't be there anymore..." Ezio Manzini.
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Footage, Direction, Montage: Andrea Mendoza
Music by Angelo Maria Farro
Duration: 07:30 min
2018
Xaroco
The film is an open question in an age of uncertainty, but also a tool to dig and find out the richness of the Portuguese traditions, and its future. All this, via archaeology.
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Duration: 65 minutes
Dandelion
2017
A very personal visual journey to explore what R. Rosellini and I. Bergman once agreed: "something to be beautiful has to be true, simple and useful".
Duration: 95 minutes
AltoContrasto
2016
What's the first thing you do after a Tragedy?
People in Nepal, did rise up, shook the dust and walked ahead. With the help of their ancestral sherpa nature, a steady good humour, and a little help of their friends.
Duration: 87:00 minutes
Inkululeko
2013
Inkululeko (freedom in X'hosa Language) started as an exploration of what Africans consider as freedom, finding out that it actually goes beyond any political realm, and that in the end it all comes rhythm.
Duration: 5 chapters of c.a. 15:00 minutes each.
BIO
My name is Andrea Mendoza, I have founded AMENfilms with the aim of highlighting resilience, having nature as a standpoint, delivering films, as a result.
I'm a former advertiser and Ph.D. in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication with emphasis on Social Innovation and Sustainability. But if you ask me, I am a marine biologist (never graduated) at the very core.
I've worked as ad creative, editing director, radio broadcaster, photographer, copy writer, design reasercher, teacher and lecturer.
AMEN Films embraces a family world wide. Our main musician loves Morocco, our editing advisor lives in NYC, our graphic between Mexico and Berlin, our hacker in Shanghai and our logistic director between Heaven and Portugal.