Revisited Cinema
Revisiting the memory of film with a contemporary look, rediscovering auteurs and works forgotten by the technological maelstrom. Inside a movie theater, the space for which they were originally conceived, where they can be truly experienced in their fullness. The Cinema Revisited programme continues, year after year, to surprise old-school cinephiles that come to Curtas, but also provides a gateway to the new ones with the most curious spirit.
Walerian Borowczyk
Walerian Borowczyk Centennial
On his centennial, Curtas joins the celebration of the work by Walerian Borowczyk, a Polish filmmaker who settled in France in 1958. Painter, sculptor and director, who once defined himself as an “alchemist craftsman”, Borowczyk was particularly interested in exploring the relationship between the fine arts and film, having collaborated with both the Polish graphic designer and cartoonist Jan Lenica and the cubist painter Fernand Léger. The occasion of his centennial is an excuse to revisit Borowczyk’s remarkable filmography, whose works were recently restored, which has allowed the rediscovery and recognition of his boldness and creative genius by audiences all over the world, and now also in Vila do Conde.
— GRAPHIC AND PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK
— DOCUMENTARY
— OBJECTS
Short flms by Walerian Borowczyk
— BORO IN THE BOX
Bertrand Mandico, France, 2011, FIC, 40’
Augusto Cabrita Centennial
António Cabrita authored many documentaries, both commissioned and institutional, in which stands out a careful look at the expressiveness of landscapes, either natural or industrialized. Alongside his work as photographer and cinematographer for a generation of filmmakers who were his accomplices in a social struggle that went far beyond cinema, he authored some titles that changed the impression of documentary as record. Effectively, the images he creates, in a balance attentive to the tensions between memory and innovation, are the portrait of a country where the workforce sees itself being transferred towards progress, and where the daily life of cities is accelerated in the face of a physical transformation of spaces and industries.
— SHORT-FILMS
RTP short films
— SHORT-FILMS
Short films byAugusto Cabrita
— BELARMINO
Fernando Lopes, Portugal, 1964, DOC, 74’
— EXHIBITION
Augusto Cabrita, The Enchanted Gaze
Augusto Cabrita
Os Verdes Anos
60 Years of 'Os Verdes Anos'
In 1963, a promotional poster for Paulo Rocha’s feature film 'Os Verdes Anos' announced: “the new wave is here…”. It was, doubtlessly, an unique moment for Portuguese cinema and for what it has become ever since: an auteur cinema, with almost artisanal resources, and which rarely found the ideal reception from the audience. This programme offers a set of short films directed between 1962 and 1963, which serve as a prelude to what was about to happen in feature films. It ends with an excerpt from 'Os Verdes Anos' that points towards an imaginary space of Portuguese cinema: a real place – the space of nature, mysterious – and a mythical place, of a certain impossibility of love, and of the need for escape and destruction.
AS PALAVRAS E OS FIOS
Fernando Lopes, Portugal, 1962, DOC, 12’
OS TRANSPORTES
Alfredo Tropa, António da Cunha Telles, Portugal, 1962, DOC, 11 min
VERÃO COINCIDENTE
António de Macedo, Portugal, 1963, DOC, 13 min
A CAÇA
Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal, 1963, FIC, 21’
EXCERTO DE ‘OS VERDES ANOS’
Paulo Rocha, Portugal, 1963, FIC, 10’
New Spanish Cinema
The advent of film education in Spain began to take shape theoretically in the early 1940s. This was ratified in 1947 with the founding of the first Spanish film school, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship. From the school's inception until its closure in 1976, it underwent an evolution that was fundamental for Spanish cinema, in such a way that the main changes in the latter have their origin in the school. Its catalogue totals some 500 outstanding productions on a technical and artistic level, making this educational center the largest Spanish producer of short films during the Franco regime.
— LA TARDE DE DOMINGO
Carlos Saura, Espanha, 1957, FIC, 33’
— LA CAZA DE BRUJAS
Antonio Drove, Espanha, 1967, FIC, 34’
— BOOK LAUNCHING
As Prácticas do IIEC e a EOC como Primordio dun Novo Cinema Espanhol (1947-76)
La Tarde de Domingo, Carlos Saura
Other films
Other highlights of Revisited Cinema Revisited programme: the revisiting of 'American Graffiti', directed by George Lucas and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, marking the 50th anniversary of the film, released in 1963. And 'Night of the iving Dead', an emblematic independent horror film from 1969, by George Romero, presented this this year in Curtas in parallel with 'Carnival of Souls', an American psychological thriller also from the 60s, produced and directed by Herk Harvey, at the festival in a film-concert version, with music by Miaux.
American Graffiti
George Lucas weaves together the stories of a disparate group of teenagers as they struggle with adolescent rites of passage in 1962. At the end of the summer of 1962 in Southern California, a disparate group of friends gather together to spend one last night cruising their hometown as they struggle with adolescent rites before they all part ways for college in the fall.
Night of the Living Dead
A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. 'Night of the Living Dead' is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.
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