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)
