LISBOA CULTURAL LISBONNE CULTURELLE
Manoel de Oliveira
Portugal, Italy, 1983, Colour, 16mm, Mono, 58’
Original version : portuguese Script : Almeida Garett , Alexandre Herculano, Fernão Lopes Fernando Pessoa, Luis Vas de Camoes, Césario Verde, Gil Vicente, Antonio Vieira Photography : Elso Roque Editing : Manoel de Oliveira Pictures : Elso Roque Sound : Joaquim Pinto, vasco Pimentel Production : Worldfilm
followed by :
PAINÉIS DE SÃO VINCENTE DE FORA - VISÃO POÉTICA PANNEAUX DE SAINT-VINCENT - UNE VISION POÉTIQUE
Manoel de Oliveira
Portugal, 2010, Colour, 16’
Original version : portuguese Script : Manoel de Oliveira Photography : Francisco Oliveira Editing : Valérie Loiseleux Sound : Henri Maïkoff, Valérie Loiseleux, Branko Neskov Casting : Ricardo Trêpa, Diogo Dória Production : Silvério Canto Moniz
In 1983, after shooting his recently-revealed posthumous movie (Visita Or Memórias e Confissões) Oliveira, a director from Porto, made a film about the “cultural image” of Lisbon – such was the subject of the RAI TV commission. This very beautiful but little-seen film was greeted with indifference: Oliveira’s so-called didacticism seems to occupy everything. And yet what we see is an unusual superimposition of speech onto the image; a film about the occultation of the clichés of this neglected culture? Always in the background through the speech of each speaker. Between the two parts of the programme (the last one also a commission from the Serralves Museum), a mystical piece of Portuguese painting from the 15th century acts as a bridge, an artwork “inhabited” here by the cinema, removed from all academicism and symbolism. (FF)