BOOK LAUNCH OF CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA

Co-published by Fundação de Serralves - Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira and the Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema, this catalog raisonné aims to be a reference publication for the study and understanding of the director's work. Being the culmination of the vast editorial production that both institutions have dedicated to the cinema of Manoel de Oliveira, this volume brings together a set of unpublished essays that deal with the whole of the director's work, followed by a chronological journey through his entire filmography, where filmographic data, reviewed and validated by the two entities, and film stills captured, as a rule, from the original film supports, synopses, notes of intent and other writings by Oliveira, as well as a wide selection of texts that document the evolution of his work and testify to the way in which, inside and outside Portugal, it was received by critics. This publication also includes a chapter dedicated to the director's biography, complemented by a selection of filming photographs, as well as a list of his active and passive filmography, an extensive (albeit selective) bibliographical review, an overview of the main retrospectives and exhibitions dedicated to the author and a survey of the main prizes and distinctions awarded to him.

The catalog raisonné of the work of a filmmaker, especially a filmmaker as long-lived and prolific as Manoel de Oliveira, can only pretend to be a point of situation, a basis and a tool for the studies that will follow, an instrument of openness and discovery, an introduction for spectators who have seen, who have not seen, who want to see, who will see.

The launch of the catalog raisonné will be attended by Ana Pinho, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Serralves Foundation, Rui Machado, Director of the Cinemateca Portuguesa - Cinema Museum, and António Preto and José Manuel Costa, editors of the publication.