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Jaime, dir. António Reis, Portugal 1974, 35 min., Portuguese with English subtitles
Screening as part of Into Their Labours: The Films of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, this programme of three Reis shorts from 1963 to 1974 includes Jaime, Reis and Cordeiro’s first collaboration.
Painéis do Porto, dir. António Reis, César Guerra Leal, Portugal 1963, 16 min., Portuguese with English subtitles
Commissioned
by the city council, Reis’s first film is an urban symphony to Porto’s
hustle and bustle that tracks local workers’ movements across the city.
From these images of everyday life, more abstract motifs emerge – linked
to nature, buildings and colours – that herald the visual
experimentation which defines Reis’s subsequent films.
Do Céu ao Rio, dirs. César Guerra Leal & António Reis, Portugal 1964, 17 min., Portuguese with English subtitles
Another commissioned film, Do Ceú ao Rio follows
the construction of several dams in north-west Portugal by a national
electricity company. While laudatory of both the projects’ technical
complexity and their impact on the lives of the region’s inhabitants,
the film also serves as an unexpected counterpoint to the considerations
of rurality and the relationship between humans and the natural world
in Reis and Cordeiro’s later work.
Jaime, dir. António Reis, Portugal 1974, 35 min., Portuguese with English subtitles
The beginning of Reis’s collaboration with Cordeiro, assistant director on this short, Jaime
explores the life and work of Jaime Fernandes, a rural worker
hospitalised with paranoid schizophrenia. In the final years of his
life, Fernandes started painting and drawing relentlessly – and one of
his hundreds of sketches was discovered after his death by Cordeiro,
then a psychiatrist at the same hospital. Starting with Fernandes’s
drawings and writings, Reis shoots in the sites where Fernandes was
born, lived and died. But rather than create a linear biography of a man
he never knew, Reis uses the materials available to summon up a new
world.
All films are ad-free and 18+ unless otherwise stated, and start with a 10 min. curated selection of trailers.
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