Barbs, Wastelands
(Farpões, baldios)
$15 Special Event Tickets
DCP / 35mm
With Maria Clara Madeira, Gonçalo Prudêncio, Maria Catarina Sapata.
Portugal, 2017, DCP, color, 25 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles.
DCP source: Filmmaker
Mateus’ debut film announced her bold visual style and poetically multi-voiced approach to political narrative with its rich evocation of a community filtered through the sun-drenched lens of a workday in an Alentejo summer and collective memories of the Carnation Revolution. Labor and play musically intermingle as children rush hither and thither and the elders recall past struggles that still echo in the present day. – Haden Guest
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Bread (O Pão)
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira.
Portugal, 1963, 35mm, color, 23 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles.
Print source: Cinemateca Portuguesa
Considered the best of the commissioned short films which effectively served as Oliveira's filmmaking apprenticeship, Bread follows the birth and life of a loaf, from the wheat fields to the bakery. “The idea for this film is that bread is like a current in a river that goes through different places, different hands…,” explained Oliveira. Bread is an important transitional work between the montage driven Douro, Working River (his first film) and his later work. It was during the search for locations for Bread that Oliveira discovered the local Passion play that would become the subject of his breakthrough film, Rite of Spring (1963). Bread was first released as a one-hour featurette but re-edited by Oliveira a few years later into this shorter, tighter version which was the one he preferred. – Haden Guest
