Abstract
In the two films I know best by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, Jaime (1973) and Trás-os-Montes (1976), we can observe the constant experience of not being able to reconfigure. That man, and those villages, those mountains, those animals, that cold, those voices, all resist reconfiguration, but are perhaps compliant to figuration, in that they allow that resistance to be felt again and again. It is the latter that I will address here. I intend to show that this film is a guide to disappearance, and at the same time a sea chart of the reunion with desires, gestures, and sounds that belong to the depths of life, awaiting only a glance to be awakened. First clarification: which fragments are those? Those that show the intolerable pain that António Reis claims was not imprinted in the photographs he took in Trás-os-Montes. Second clarification: I have mortified the original montage. My operation is not artistic, it has to do with the selection of scenes, fragments that created their own conceptual logic. Third clarification: I am writing an essay that might be called a “close reading”, but in a rather wild fashion, without taking the procedure as an attitré hermeneutical technique.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Rethinking the City |
Subtitle of host publication | Reconfiguration and Fragmentation |
Editors | Maria Filomena Molder, Nélio Conceição, Nuno Fonseca |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group |
Pages | 234-248 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003452928 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781032590974 |
Publication status | Published - 12 Dec 2024 |
Keywords
- The city
- Cinema
- Trás-os-Montes
- António Reis
- Margarida Cordeiro