Last session of the film programme Modos de Rever: História(s) da Arte no Cinema, conceived by Isabel Lopes Gomes. The session will include a brief presentation, followed by screenings of the films A Pousada das Chagas (1972) and Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (1989), both by Paulo Rocha, and Edgar Pêra's Crime / Abismo Azul / Remorso Físico(2009), followed by a conversation with actor Luis Miguel Cintra and writer and videographer Regina Guimarães, moderated by Isabel Lopes Gomes.

A POUSADA DAS CHAGAS
Paulo Rocha | POR | 1972 | 20’

A Pousada das Chagas was a suggestion from heaven. The Gulbenkian Foundation had created a museum of sacred art in Óbidos and wanted a documentary about the museum. (...) I stuffed my pockets with pieces of paper: quotes from Rimbaud, Légende, Dorée, Camões, Lao Tze, etc., and went to Óbidos to film with a couple of twenty-year-olds, Luis Miguel Cintra and Jorge Silva Melo, people whose talent was almost insolent. They did a bit of everything, did everything well and did everything quickly... What emerged was a kind of modernist miracle play, a collage of voices, texts, objects, spaces, bodies, pulsations; burning, suffering bodies, bodies that radiated energy: an obsession that haunts me, Ko-Haru's scenes in A Ilha dos Amores, Antónia's hysteria in O Desejado. Since Pousada, collage has dominated my work - collage, sequence shots; rejection of psychology, the subjective shot, the cover shot, the close-up. I went back to theatrical scenes, filming from the front, the mirror. The shape of A Ilha dos Amores comes from the Pousada. As far as I know, the Pousada predates Syberberg, Schroeter and Carmelo Bene.” (Paulo Rocha, 1988)


MÁSCARA DE AÇO CONTRA ABISMO AZULPaulo Rocha | POR | 1989 | 64’

In Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul, Paulo Rocha makes a surprising “collage” about Portuguese modernism, centered on Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. Between reconstructing the years of Orpheu and the Futurist Manifesto, setting up an exhibition at the Gulbenkian and a juggernaut of oneirism, Paulo Rocha offers one of the most unique and fascinating visions of this world of colors and metals, as nostalgic as it is anarchistic, as lofty as it is insecure. (Midas Filmes)
   

CRIME / ABISMO AZUL / REMORSO FÍSICOEdgar Pêra | POR | 2009 | 15’

Crime / Abismo Azul / Remorso Físicois inspired by the life and work of Amadeo de Souza-Cardozo. This controversial 20th century painter challenged the avant-garde of his time: “I don't follow schools. I'm an impressionist, cubist, futurist, abstractionist. A bit of everything. True tradition is not about trying to relive the past - which is impossible - but rather something that establishes continuity, like parents with their children. A son is never the same as his father.” The film follows Amadeo's motto. It combines pictorial fiction, suggested by his emblematic painting The Procession, painted in Paris in 1913, with contemporary Portuguese reality. (Agência da Curta Metragem)