Country: Portugal
Year: 1959
Duration: 6'
An unprofessional short film shot in Super-8. The Cinemateca Portuguesa has recently restored it on 35 mm film. The characters in the film are the inhabitants - for the most part sailors - of Vieira de Leira.
"These are all profiles, O Senhor is a small masterpiece. The iconography is cristalline: the mill and the miller, the woman giving birth and the group waiting to establish a relationship with the community. Everything is essential. For example, the circular movement of the mill's blades, filmed in this manner, acquires a sense similar to that of the revolving door in L'ultima risata by Murnau: it is the endless unstoppable cycle of life against our desire to stop time, it is the substitution of the old with the new. The violence within the enviornment is constructed by the essentiality of the scenography and the concentration of the shots" (José Manuel Costa).
Biography
film director
António Campos
Born in Leiria in 1922, Antonio Campos is best known for his documentary features, which since the seventies have established him as one of the most perspicacious social observer in Portugal. After studying painting in Porto, he returned to Leiria to make is first film, Um Tesouro (1958), a fiction short. He continued working in short films until 1971, when he moved into documentary feature with the magnificent Vilarinho das Furnas. Setting out to describe the transformations of the Portuguese countryside, Campos began developping a fascinating body of anthropological film work. In 1991 he directed his first fiction feature, Terra fria, based on a novel by Ferreira de Castro.
FILMOGRAFIA
Um tesouro (cm, 1958), A Almadraba Atuneira (1961), Chagall (1966), Colagem (1967), Vilarinho das Furnas (1971), Falamos de Rio Onor (1974), Gente de Prai de Vieira (1975), Histórias Selvagens (1978), Terra fria (1991), A tremonha de cristal (1993).
Cast
& Credits
Realizzazione: António Campos.
Plot: da un racconto di Miguel Torga.
Cast: attori non professionisti.
Plot: da un racconto di Miguel Torga.
Cast: attori non professionisti.