Open Accesscineasta e a cidade: Manoel de Oliveira e O Porto
Author(s) -
Anabela Branco de Oliveira
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
studia iberystyczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2391-7636
pISSN - 2082-8594
DOI - 10.12797/si.13.2014.13.40
Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , art , humanities , architecture , art history , cartography , visual arts , geography , geometry , mathematics
THE FILM DIRECTOR AND THE CITY: MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA AND PORTO
Manoel de Oliveira brings about a strong, inexplicable and a connection impossible to define to Porto. He casts, in Douro Faina Fluvial (1931), Aniki‑Bóbó (1942), O Pintor e a Cidade (1956), and Porto da minha Infância (2001) a special relationship between this city and the universe of movies. The Porto of Manoel de Oliveira becomes a filmic discourse, an aesthetic journey without boundaries between fiction and documentary. It’s a city established as the architecture of the film becoming the character, title, maximum space of architectural and cinematic reflection. It is a labyrinthine Porto of images, a city transformed by the multiple film cameras from a single Master.