Building a home is more than putting up four walls and a roof. To build a home is to imprint Soul on every hinge, on every brick, it’s to dip the brush into the bucket of personality and sprinkle every corner, it’s to cut down the beams that support ideas and nail them together with mastery, it’s to take the dusty dreams from the bottom drawer and place them on the spotlight in the most beautiful frames, so that whoever enters it can dream with us.
The pandemic didn’t arrive with an instruction book, everything that used to be, is no longer. Or, at least, not the way we knew it till then. And that’s why it is, and it was necessary, that all of us lived this phase in their own way. But one thing was certain, we couldn’t, and we didn’t want to sit in the spectator’s chair while the film was playing in front of us without the proper credits. As this season wasn’t made up of only dark episodes, it was at this point that we found the motivation to change the course of history and get our hands dirty. Literally.
A mission that seemed impossible, became a test to our limits, which everyone passed with distinction. And if reality often overcomes fiction, let’s imagine the following: a director who takes on the role of master builder, a dop who sometimes is a painter, an “expert” producer with a sander and a talkie who treats any nail or screw on a first name basis. One of the most typical neighbourhoods of Lisbon that you could ever imagine, neighbours that tells it like it is, a bottle of red wine to savour the days and a dog in the middle of everything.
It doesn’t sound like a very promising script, but it was. Much more than we could ever imagine. It was absurd, it was genius, it was crazy, and it was absolutely legendary, in equal parts!
Shot’s new space is much more than an office, much more than a studio, much more than an atelier. It’s a piece of everyone who left a little bit of their love here, a little bit of themselves. The place where we arrive and feel privileged to feel at HOME! This is where we believe that our identity is visible, this is where this family now lives.
Be our guest! Mi casa, es su casa….
