POUSADA DAS CHAGAS

"Pousada das chagas was a heaven-sent suggestion. The Gulbenkian Foundation had set up a museum of Sacred Art in Obidos, and they wanted a documentary about the museum. This was in 1970, and after Mudar de vida in 1966 I'd stopped believing in the classic cinema. It was a rush job, there was no time to think. I stuffed my pockets with bits of paper - quotes from Rimbaud, Légende Dorée, Camões, Lao Tze - and went to Obidos to film with a couple of twenty-year-olds, Luís Miguel Cintra e Jorge Silva Melo, people whose talent was almost insolent. What emerged was a kind of modernist miracle play, a collage of voices, texts, objects, spaces, bodies, pulsations. Burning, suffering bodies, that radiated energy" (Paulo Rocha).

Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Paulo Rocha.
Testi: Flos Sanctorum, Camões, Fernando Pessoa, Federico Garcia Lorca, Arthur Rimbaud, Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Lao Tzu, Tao Chien, Mumon.
Director of photography: Acácio de Almeida.
Scenografia e costumi: Jorge Silva Melo, Luís Miguel Cintra.
Music: Jorge Peixinho.
Editor: Paulo Rocha, Noémia Delgado.
Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra, Clara Joana.
Production company: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian per IR.