DOURO MUSEUM
NINE MONTHS OF WINTER AND THREE OF HELL
With the title taken from a popular expression from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes in Portugal Northeast region, "Nine Months of Winter and Three of Hell" is a documentary by João Pedro Marnoto that recounts a journey amongst the people rooted in the land that feeds its hunger, and devoted in the faith that points them towards the skies. Firstly with photography and extending into vídeo, the final result tries to be a visual metaphor on contemporaneity taken from a premise and perspective of the rural space: While road works and river damns gain ground over nature, Humanity persists on a fading and enduring coexistence with the environment, honouring a past creased by physical and spiritual effort and rigor, in contrast to a present where it seems to dominate a culture of both moral formatting and exaltation. A culture in a merciless confrontation with new social and economic realities, in a last instance, it´s a reflection on the human condition based on three vertices: the relationship with the Land, Faith and Progress.
BOOK
Hard cover in the format 18cmx24cm, 170 pages and 100 colour images
TOURING EXHIBITION
55 images framed in formats 50cmx75cm, 100cmx66cm and 80cmx120cm already presented around Portugal at the following spaces:
- Douro Museum, Régua (December 2017-February 2018)
- CITICA, Carrazeda de Ansiães (March-May 2018)
- Alijó Auditorium, Alijó (May-August 2018)
- Côa Museum, Foz Côa (October-November 2018)
- Master José Rodrigues Cultural Center, Alfândega da Fé (2019)
- Iberian Mask Interpretation Center, Lazarim, Lamego (May-June 2019)
- Museu do Abade de Baçal, Bragança (July-September 2019)
- Miguel Torga Space, Sabrosa (2020)
- Casa Comum, Porto University (October 2022)
- Mesão Frio Municipal Library (November 2023 - January 2024)
- Museum of Archaeology and Numismatics, Vila Real (October 2022)
FILM PROJECTION
A 94 minutes feature film presented at the following festivals, events and broadcast channel:
- Rios - International Documentary and Transmedia Festival, Vila Real, Portugal (March 2018)
- Avanca Cinema Festival - official selection | “Panorama Portuguese Cinema” section, Avanca, Portugal (July 2018)
- CineCôa International Film Festival - official selection, Vila Nova de Foz Côa (September 2018)
- Cine´Eco International Environmental Film Festival - official selection, Seia, Portugal (October 2018)
- Festival das Luzes, Belmonte, Portugal (November 2018)
- Gil Vicente Academic Theater/Coimbra - part of the Cine´Eco Festival extension program (January 2019)
- Madeira Oceanic Observatory - part of the Cine´Eco Festival extension program (May 2019)
- University of Porto - included in the program “3 Places, 3 Films, 3 Conversations | Documentaries and conversation” produced by
the Ethnography and Folklore Center of the University of Porto (July 2019)
- Folk Ancas Cinema Cycle/Cinema na Eira - Ancas, Anadia, Portugal (July 2019)
- RTP - 2025 (April 2025)
During the year of 2018, in partnership with the Douro Museum and AEPGA Association, live projection of the film in public spaces in the style of traveling cinema, especially in Churches, catle barns, olive oil press, and other spaces that are of particular interest, with special relevance to the region and communities where the work originates, coinciding with the season of the summer festivities:
Atenor, Ifanes e Paradela (Miranda do Douro), Vilar Seco (Vimioso), Talhas (Macedo de Cavaleiros), Lavandeira (Carrazeda de Ansiães), Ul (Oliveira de Azeméis), Rio Onor (Bragança), Paredes de Coura, Alijó & Favaios.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS
A long term project that has been already presented over the years in media and cultural events such as:
- Público Newspaper, Portugal (2018)
- Geo Saison, Germany (2017)
- L´Obs, France (2016)
- II Edition Douro Entrepreneur Award – Expo Milan 2015, UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (2015)
- Between River Banks Festival - exhibition in Mirandela, Lisbon, Sª Marta Penaguião, Porto, Portugal (2012/2013)
- Between River Banks Festival - projection + music + spoken word - Mirandela Auditorium and Lamego Theatre, Portugal (2012)
- Recyclart Center – Portuguese Photography - Brussels, Belgium (October 2012)
- PhotoEspana Madrid 2012 - Descubrimientos (June 2012)
- The Woman in the Rural World - Booklet and exhibition - Bragança Cultural Center & Ronda das Adegas, Atenor, Portugal (2011)
- Vice Magazine | Portuguese edition (July/August 2011)
- Private Magazine/website, Italy (May 2011)
- FotoWeekDC, International Photo Festival, Washington/USA (November 2010)
- Kaunas Photo Festival, Lithuania (July 2010)
- www.vervephoto.com - new values of photo documentary (2009)
- Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism, Hannover, Germany (June 2008)
- Sounds & Ruralities Art Festival, Vimioso/Portugal (May 2008)
- Foundation Museum Maurício Penha, Sanfins do Douro/Portugal (August 2007)
- Alijó Municipal Auditorium/Portugal (July 2007)
- "The rocks, the people and the memory" - Book documenting the cultural & social heritage of Alijó Municipality in the Douro region (2006).
RTP - Setembro 2022
Universidade do Porto - Setembro 2022
LocalVisão TV - Outubro 2019
MEDIA
Público Fugas - 2018 (click to enlarge image/text)
GENERAL DIRECTION
Direction, D.O.P. & Editing (Film)
Photography, Layout & Texts (Book)
João Pedro Marnoto
PRODUCTION
MediaUtopia
João Pedro Marnoto
Eduarda Freitas
Museu do Douro
Fernando Seara
João Tomé Duarte
Luis Carvalho Maria
Maria João Centenário
Natália Fauvrelle
DESIGN CONSULTING
Hugo Amadeu Santos
BOOK EDITORS
Âncora Editores
MediaUtopia
Museu do Douro
MUSIC (Film)
Gonçalo Pereira
EDITING ASSISTANCE
Tiago Carvalho
SOUND MIXING
Duarte Ferreira
TRANSLATION & SUBTITLES (Film)
Pedro Filipe Ramos
Pedro Pereira
Pedro Braga Falcao
PRINTING (Book)
Orgal impressores
PRINTING (Exhibition)
Lumen
FRAMING
Da Vinci
