MiniDV, colour, sound, 12 min 34 sec, January 2005

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Existing is an artistic project combining a drawing installation comprising 15 A3 ballpoint pen drawings with an essay film, created in 2005.

Situated between fiction and the essay film, the work follows a mathematician who returns to the mountains of Caramulo, Portugal, where, thirty years earlier, he had spent two years seeking to recover from tuberculosis through natural remedies.

As he drives through the now largely deserted and decaying village of Caramulo, once home to one of Europe's largest sanatorium complexes, the mathematician reflects on life, death and the passage of time. His observations gradually unfold into philosophical meditations, drawing connections between human existence and the principles of geometry, form and design that have shaped his understanding of the world.

Through drawings created in real time, music and a narrative that moves fluidly between past and present, the film invites the viewer on a contemplative journey through different dimensions of time—remembered, experienced and imagined.

As these temporal layers overlap and intertwine, the work explores the paradoxical notion of timeless time: a space in which memory, perception and lived experience converge, questioning the linear nature of time and our understanding of existence.