The Port Trilogy in images and music
The Port Trilogy brought to life through words, images, and music, featuring the voices of Yan Kouton (Na sua luz), Gwendolyn Rivera (Va al paraiso), and Bruno Green (La lunga notte).
On the multiplicity and juxtaposition of mediums, in Bruno Green's words:
"All my projects, regardless of their form or tools, weave a single, intimate tapestry; they are both indivisible and profoundly complementary. I have been building this universe for nearly forty years; missteps, wrong turns, I renounce nothing, because life and creation are one, and I cannot tolerate immobility. The impermanence of things is a fundamental rule that must inspire humility; neither the fanfares of the finish line nor the confetti of ephemeral victories matter to me. What animates me is the journey itself, a sacred place where one has nothing to prove to anyone, except to oneself."
Na sua luz is a poetic crossing of Lisbon, where the city becomes a mirror of an inner world, a stage for meditation on time as it unravels. In a dense and musical language, the author blends sensory observation with existential reflection, exploring the fragility of time, the erosion of memory, and an obstinate desire for meaning. Far from the picturesque clichés of tourism vendors, the city emerges as an ambivalent figure: both tender and elusive, a wounded lover, a forgotten sentinel, a sanctuary of melancholy, bathed in light yet gnawed by oblivion. Straddling poetic prose and intimate chronicle, this text stands in the lineage of Pessoa, Calvino, and Magris, affirming a singular voice that is deeply incarnate.
With La lunga notte,, Bruno Green delivers a text that oscillates between intimate narrative and epic poem. The work opens with dense, introspective prose, as the author evokes a stay in Palermo where, paradoxically, he discovers neither the city nor the country. The Sicilian capital becomes a mental backdrop, a mirror of a state of exhaustion and solitude. By visiting the antechambers of hell, the author accepts confronting his torments, and in this suffocating atmosphere, the city transforms into a symbol of inner darkness, set against the backdrop of Letizia Battaglia’s photographs and Wim Wenders’ Palermo Shooting.
Lecture Critique, Michel Baillargeon – 2025