Clara Jost

Artist, filmmaker, film editor
📍Lisbon, Portugal


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Happiness in a pot



While cooking, Yaxuan notices that her pot makes a peculiar sound. That sound will generate a wandering around food rituals, which appear as a bridge between past and present.

With:
Yaxuan Zhang
Sérgio Monteiro-Rodrigues
César Oliveira
Rui Lima and
Sérgio Martins

Sound recording and post-production: Marcelo Tavares
Color grading: Andreia Bertini

Presented by: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian & Escola das Artes (Universidade Católica do Porto)



Screenings:

2024
- IndieLisboa, National Competition (Portugal)
- Luz no jardim: short film screening in Lisbon moderated by Apertura Institute (Portugal) 

(upcoming)
- 41st Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (Germany)
- Beijing International Short Film Festival (China)
- London Short Film Festival (UK)
2024, 19’, HD, color, sound




Bonjour Eric



A film letter to friend and Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels.

Support: 
SABAM

Screenings:
Lago Film Fest (Italy)
aCinema space, Milwaukee (USA)

2024, 4’, mixed formats, sound, color, b&w


Cosas bonitas y un par de tragedias



Cosas bonitas y un par de tragedias is an audiovisual poem that investigates the possible links between death and travel, through the juxtaposition of two types of “goodbye”. The film was made by collecting images captured in 16mm film and sound recordings, both deriving from the lives of two people. Then the collection was organized, and the significance of the found elements appeared.

With:
Emmanuel Dante Barnabeu 
Zarah van Eenoo

Support:
SABAM

Never screened in public.


2023, 12min, 16mm to DCP, color, b&w, sound


Meine Liebe



A tribute to a tomato plant that only gave one tomato.

Screenings:
IndieLisboa International Film Festival (Award for Best Portuguese Short Film) [Portugal]
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival [Portugal]
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma [Canada]
Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português [Portugal]
ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao [Spain]
Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers [France]
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival [UK]
Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln [Germany]
Mostra de Cinema Português - Vila Franca de Xira [Portugal]
Lago Film Fest [Italy]
Shorts Mexico [Mexico]
Prémios Sophia [Portugal]
Festival Cinespaña [France]
Frames - Portuguese Film Festival [Sweden]
Mostra Nacional Jovens Criadores [Portugal]
ARQUIVO & PESQUISA: Relatos Sagrados [Brazil]
Kunsthalle Münster [Germany]
ENCONTROS da Fundação Mata do Bussaco [Portugal]

Distributor
2020, 6min, HD, color, sound



Verniz



A rhythmic bus ride with no protagonist. Time is stretched allowing the viewer to figure out the passenger’s interactions and to wonder what may be at the end of their routes.

With:
António Júlio Duarte
Dennis Correia
Gabriel Margarido Pais
José Lopes
Marianne Harlé
Marília Villaverde Cabral
Roxana Lugojan
Simão Godinho

Directed by: Clara Jost
Production: Rui Ferreira
DOP: Rosa Vale Cardoso
Sound: Marcelo Tavares
Editing: Elisa Campos



Screenings:

Córtex (Portugal)
Mifec 2019 - Prémio Especial do Júri (Portugal)
Semana da Criação Contemporânea - Lycée Français Charles Lepierre (Portugal)
Cinalfama - Menção Honrosa (Portugal)
Curtas de Vila do Conde 2019 Take One! (Portugal)
Cinema no Aquário ZDB (Portugal)
Mostra de Cinema de Vila Franca de Xira (Portugal)
Ymotion (Portugal)
Caminhos Cinema Português (Portugal)
INTERNATIONAL FILMSCHOOL FESTIVAL TETOUAN (Morroco)
Porto Post Doc (Portugal)
TV (Canal180)
TV - Cinemax Curtas (RTP2)
Novocine (online)
(A)MOSTRA DE CINEMA PORTUGUÊS Estremoz (Portugal)
Cinemateca Portuguesa (ciclo 50 anos ESTC) (Portugal)

Link with interview: 
www.novocine.pt/Glaze

2018, 14min, 2K, color, 5.1 sound

This film is available for free, but you can also donate here.