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Once upon a spring, there were telescopes stuck to the ground looking out for dying stars. Young Astyanax was there too, in the cold heights of this oracle, headphones on as ever, listening to a broadcast from afar. One year after the war in Troy. In the cinema, we listen along to the story of a king in love with a queen whose man and country his sword slayed. A chain of dialogues where desire mocks political duty.

Gonçalo Lamas is a writer, artist and filmmaker, born in Porto. After briefly studying film, he joined the BA Fine Art 4D at Central Saint Martins, graduating in 2017. Halfway through, he spent a semester at Universität der Künste Berlin, with Hito Steyerl’s class. In 2020, he produced the performance ‘Boeing Nº 737-800 in F#m’, presented at Culturgest Porto. An accompanying book was launched at the 6th Artist Self-Publishers’ Fair in London. His first film, ‘Granary Squares’, premiered in national competition at the 2021 edition of IndieLisboa. In 2022, Glasgow-based SPAM Press edited his poetry pamphlet ‘some times zero hours’. This year, he completed the study program at Le Fresnoy, in the north of France.