Synopsis:

An experimental short documenting a family gathering during Easter at a farm in Portugal. The Fire composes an atmospheric snapshot of a farm, a family, and the story of a tragic fire.

"The Fire can be described as a depiction of an extended family, a disappearing social unit, engaging in various family rituals. These seemingly trivial events slowly reveal the theatricality of the everyday, and turn these taken-for-granted occasions into uncanny ceremonies. Old women's recollections are repeatedly juxtaposed with children playing, making the feeling of looming death even more acute.
Fire is destructive and at times lethal, but the viewer is offered only a calm account of its consequence; in the same way one is left only with the sound of fire's seductive force, fireworks." - Yuki Higashino, artist