This video shows a rural environment in a cold and snowy winter, a quiet twilight that is interrupted by a helicopter carrying a suspended metallic object: a sculptural star. The star, as it is being transported, projects its light onto the ground, as if tracing the terrain, and its brightness creates a light effect on the camera lens, which gives it an idealised and representative shape. As it gets darker it also begins to snow and the journey of the three-dimensional star, clearly the materialisation of a shooting star, is interrupted, meeting the ground in free fall. With the violent impact the piece stops shining and two people appear to rescue it.

- Shooting star
, from 2005, presents us with a mysterious, surrealistic and almost humorous event, in a fictional documentary act of the descent of a star to our planet. Filipa César portrays a theatrical construction, which leaves us questioning the purpose of such an unlikely experiment.

It is worth noting the complicated logistics of this video production. The organisation of resources involving a helicopter and the authorisation to drop such large object, as well as the very process of filming an airborne object are clearly challenging. The Portuguese artist and filmmaker, known for her research projects that explore the fictional point of view of the documentary, expresses, with this video, a simple, touching, and metaphorical action. This - Shooting star
can be seen as an allusion to the Christian tradition of the star of Bethlehem that guided the Three Kings to where Jesus was born, but also to the interrupted career of a film or music star, as the English expression suggests. Although the expression "shooting star" is so common, this astronomical phenomenon is actually the effect of a falling meteorite, thus being one of the most publicised errors ever.