CINEMA

   
 
  Portugal, 2000, DOC, Betacam SP, Colour, 23'
Director: Fernando Lopes
Producer: Rogério Ceitil Audiovisuais
Photography: Miguel Ceitil
Editing: Miguel Ceitil, Fernando Lopes
Main Actors: Isabel Ruth
Original Idiom: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Synopsis:

Cinema portrays a visit to a theater (Sá da Bandeira) full of cinematic traditions yet confined today to the death of traditional movie images. Sá da Bandeira, which runs pornographic films, testifies on one hand to the memory of those images and their perpetuity, but on the other to their death – what might call pornography in films, as imaginary and the visual icom of our times – from Aurélio da Paz dos Reis up to the industry of the show. The title of this film comes straight from Carlos de Oliveira, a grand poet who had vivid refections about the fragility and fascination of the images…

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