About

Closing the cycle Cinema e Fotografia: Visões Espectrais is presented a screening haunted by the canonical film on the relationship between the moving image and the still image: Blow-Up (1966), by Michelangelo Antonioni.

Brian de Palma, the most Hitchcockian of the New Hollywood directors, directed Blow Out under the aegis of Antonioni's film and based on two personal events: a falling out with his sound mixer during the post-production of his previous film; and his obsession with the investigation surrounding the John F. Kennedy murder. De Palma works, therefore, in the psychological thriller genre, where it is not just a question of delving into an image (as Antonioni did), but of delving into a series of successive images in their conjunction with sound, in other words, delving into the experience of cinema.

The screening opens with Somebody was trying to kill somebody else, by Benjamin Verhoeven, where the director appropriates images from the scene of the photographic “revelation” of Blow-Up and visualises (in the sense that he makes it visual) the dance between photographer and image in a pursuit that abstractly seeks the very tail of performance.

When

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 18:30-20:30