It is a documentary of Gonçalo Tocha about the smallest island of the Azores archipelago
It is the smallest of the nine islands that composes the Azores. Over the centuries this small territory lost in the ocean, was inhabited by slaves, pirates, buccaneers and American whalers. Currently, Corvo has 440 inhabitants and five thousand cows, without adding to the numbers the team that accompanied Gonzalo Tocha, who decided to film the day to day life of these special citizens. It's true. They are also Portuguese. Forgotten islanders but also Lusitanian's to the very core. How is to live on a cliff top, 6 km by 4 km apart from the world, with only one paved road, a small clinic, a police station and a small airstrip that only works a few days a week and many cattle? Probably we could rename Corvo island for cow island. Jokes aside, Gonçalo Tocha, the director, a descendant of Azorean wanted to do a visual archive of the everyday life of raven people, see what's behind the legends. He tapes all the sounds of the island, the wind, living beings and the voices, which pleased me greatly. It's a dense work, somewhat long, but it was necessary, because it reflects the time, as life on an island it is measured by sunrise and sunsets. Where there is no word stress or hurry. Where life just happens. I love this second work of this filmmaker and I won't add anymore, so you can find as I did this lost island in the Atlantic. The second link contains an interview of Gonçalo Tocha in English.
