Regarding the lecture the other day – Notes on a cook-actor and cinema as an impressionist art

Résumé

Interview given by filmmaker Leonardo Mouramateus and actor Mauro Soares to researchers Patrícia Dourado and Mirian Tavares, regarding the lecture “Materialities of the Word in Creative Processes,” held on May 16, 2023, in Faro, Algarve, as part of the course Transversal Materialities of Creation, within the Master’s in Creation Processes at the University of Algarve. The interview was a supplementary material for the researchers, whose questions were sent after the lecture as a way of obtaining a tangible record of some points discussed by the artists during the event, to which they kindly responded. The answers, which were significant for the development of other works by the researchers, are here shared with the scientific community interested in the study of creation archives and the nuances of the fictional gesture, particularly in relation to these two artists – but not exclusively – as an invitation for future studies. Among the topics discussed are the word as material and tool for creation; the laboratory-kitchen of actor-chemist-cook Mauro Soares; some childhood memories; composition with emptiness; cinema as an impressionist art form for Leonardo Mouramateus; possibilities for a living fiction; and the actor as a being in front of things.