Curiosity drives people to look for something new. We often try to explore what is forbidden,
and it brings danger into our life.
Bruno Miguel Resende’s “Satanic Key” is a movie about a mysterious key that unveils a shadow
world where strange forces gather. This movie elucidates the concept of a forbidden world and
its consequences into normal life.
We have prepared a bunch of questions for Bruno Miguel Resende to get the best out of our
curiosity regarding the movie.

1. Hi, Bruno, hope you are doing well. How did you come up with the idea of making this
film?
Hi. Firstly i had to say that It's a pleasure to be in this Festival, and furthermore, to be an award-wining filmaker here. It means a lot for me, and to the film, that made a path of victories that i never thought possible. Satanic Key is the film made after an ilegal eletricity cut that killed 5 snakes, half of my family. Also, it apeared after my artistic projects where not registered or deleted. Without electricity, money or medical suplies, Satanic Key discovered doors to light. I think all artists are in peculiares worlds of self-rebuilding their way of expression, of survival, of quest, so, probably, as many, i am in that process to. As far as i can know, my filmmaking, my books and my fire Shows keep their flame lifted. So, well, as far as possible. And you?

1.1 Altough the idea was being built over a year, the concept and fascination over the works of Sade and Bataille, mostly, led me to explore the sexual, phylosofical, and artistic forms of transgression in patterns and social dogmas. Not as a destruction, surely an ideia of eternal temptation, but for me as defragmentation. Where pleasure enters into a rythm that we cannot escape. Soon we enter in altered states of consciounsness, and binary rules colapse. What comands us then? The blood that makes erection. The heartbeat.

 

2. The black and white color is providing an enormous and passionate vibe to the movie,
how did you decide to choose this tone for your movie?
Having a strong yet minimalistic structure, with few important objects, the black an white gets to make a focus in charavters, places and actions. Also, it gives time another meaning, it goes into the past freely. It invokes dualism, what drives our mind to a feeling of claustrophobia.

 

3. The film conceptualizes a very unique storyline, a well-compacted movie that lasts less
than 6 minutes, is there any real-life inspiration behind this movie?
It's real. The real life combined with art can take us to a metaverse, or a paraverse. Metempsychosis aplied to another "me", and magic can build a mind chamber with physical form, where that being can be unleashead. It breaks the rules, law, sometimes personal dogmas. But it exists. It must breath. It bretheaded. And perhaps that fragment of "me", "you", just dies in the ritual, made movie.

4. How long did it take to complete the movie?
The concept was developed in a few years, as other concepts that sometimes achieve the form of an ideia. The fragmentation of the ideia was the starting point to the film. 3 days. So, the film itself, tooked more or less 72 hours of continous work. The concept maybe 15 years.

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5. Wrong steps out of curiosity, lust for sex - your movie is pointing out some serious issues
of society, would you like to share your opinion on the theses issues?
Like Sade, the message is similar. Absolute power, dictatorships, are easily explained by sex. Also the freedom of choosing slavery.

6. What is your favorite genre in filmmaking and why?
The genre is always a way to restrain art, when we talk about criation. But obviously we need to stamp words in works of art to help our mind. So, Experimental can be the genre. Psycadelic. Surrealist. Dadaist. Psicomagic. Film-Noir. All this words get the same roots. An unique perspective. As i can mention the names that are part of my works. Gaspar Noé. Vicenzo Natalli. David Lynch. Tarkovsky. Jodorowsky. Bunuel. Georges Palfy, talhante, leitao.

7. “Satanic Key” why did you choose this title for your movie?
The oposition, or binary structure of the film, black and white, master and slave, female and male, leaves the key that may be used to escape that world as Satanic. Oposition. Acusation. Satanic as all that destroys that binary world made by the dualism imposed in all monotheistic cultures. The transgression in the perspective of Bataille. The antichrist of Nietzsche. So, Satanic Key is the moment when the viewer finds himself traped inside the movie. Also, the moment when the viewer finds himself with the power to escape.

 

8. How did you come to the world of film making? Any suggestion do you want to give to
the budding filmmaker?
I started filmmaking more seriously after Covid, after Big Shows get forbiden in Portugal, and all Culture and Arts faced a huge desert of interdictions and no social emergencies. After the second film that showed a ghost town and displayed a pure Orwellian concept, "Brave Nation", that was foloweed by my book "Coronavírus Conspiracy", i get my path defined. 10 films where made, getting more than 200 selections. In Performative Arts i made more than 10 shows, 8 in Spain. I publish 10 books, with the registrationt of important Heritage Events. For all of that i have my eletricity cutted and all funds vanished in April. Pain is temporary. Art is Forever. I think that in this times, that try to make an empty global culture, as defined by Lipovetsky, Artists are those that really can make a diference. We can change the emptiness that is forced our minds.

9. What kind of challenges did you face during making this film? Any BTS do you want to
share with us?
Without anyone knowing about the film, it simply was made and add submited to Festivals. Future is another thing. The work is done.

10. We would like to end our conversation by asking you about your upcoming projects?
I have thousands. Right now i am trying to complete a Russian-Portuguese Production that faces all kind of dificulties. From public descrimination to Autism from Câmara do Porto to the interdiction made to me of having acess to cultural structures. Also the tribute to one of the most famous poets in the time of Fernando Pessoa, Ângelo de Lima. He was considered "alienated". 100 years after we found out the same "medical" structurebaplied in politics about Art. The erasion of this name is an example of what is being made.