Velmora

Campaign film

for

Canal Zero

in

2026

Canal Zero is putting sixty years of Portuguese television online. For the launch we bought forty sets by weight from a repair shop in Almada, wired them into one wall and filmed a man tuning them in the dark until a lost broadcast came back through the snow.

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Forty sets by weight

Canal Zero’s archive held sixty years of broadcasts, and almost nobody knew it was there. The brief was one film for the launch, with no talking heads and no montage of famous clips.

We bought forty televisions by the kilo from a repair shop in Almada, the kind that still work if you tap them in the right place. Duarte spent two days wiring them into one curved wall.

One night in the studio

Every screen shows real static from its own aerial. The man at the centre tunes them one by one, and the only picture that holds is a 1974 weather report from the archive itself.

“People write to us about the weather report. It was the one clip we never planned to show.”

Inês Moura, head of archive at Canal Zero

After the launch

The film ran before the evening news for two weeks. The archive’s first month brought 210,000 visits, most of them after nine at night.

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A red neon sign reading Karaten in katakana above a lit shop window, people walking past at night

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A man sits in the dark before a curved wall of old televisions showing static
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A man sits on the floor before a curved wall of old televisions full of static
An old television screen filled with static and pink lines
The man's silhouette from behind against rows of glowing screens
A finger turns the dial on an old television set
Cables coiled across a concrete floor in front of the glowing screens
Only some of the screens still lit, the man small in the dark below them
A man sits in the dark before a curved wall of old televisions showing static
0:00 / 0:00
A man sits on the floor before a curved wall of old televisions full of static
An old television screen filled with static and pink lines
The man's silhouette from behind against rows of glowing screens
A finger turns the dial on an old television set
Cables coiled across a concrete floor in front of the glowing screens
Only some of the screens still lit, the man small in the dark below them

Forty sets by weight

Canal Zero’s archive held sixty years of broadcasts, and almost nobody knew it was there. The brief was one film for the launch, with no talking heads and no montage of famous clips.

We bought forty televisions by the kilo from a repair shop in Almada, the kind that still work if you tap them in the right place. Duarte spent two days wiring them into one curved wall.

One night in the studio

Every screen shows real static from its own aerial. The man at the centre tunes them one by one, and the only picture that holds is a 1974 weather report from the archive itself.

“People write to us about the weather report. It was the one clip we never planned to show.”

Inês Moura, head of archive at Canal Zero

After the launch

The film ran before the evening news for two weeks. The archive’s first month brought 210,000 visits, most of them after nine at night.

Read the whole story

A red neon sign reading Karaten in katakana above a lit shop window, people walking past at night

Next

Noctelle

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