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13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD

Ana Vaz
Portugalia
31 min.

Taking its title from the poem by Wallace Stevens “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” the film is composed of a series of attempts at looking and being looked at.

Beginning as a city state commission under the name and attitude of Unschool, the film became a kaleidoscope of the experiences, questions, and wonders of a couple of high school students after a year of experiences with filmmaker Ana Vaz, questioning what cinema can be. Here the camera becomes an instrument of inquiry, a pencil, a song. “The film is a song you can see,” wrote one of the students in a collective constellation of phrases and drawings made during one of the workshops. The phrase is a perfect description of a film that explores a nascent ecology of the senses.

 

Premii și festivaluri

Exhibition | Venue and dates

Mezanin, Palatul Universul - 17-21 November

Palatul Universul - Strada Actor Ion Brezoianu 23-25
*Free entrance
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Ana Vaz

Ana Vaz is an artist, filmmaker, and founder of the in(ter)disciplinary collective Coyote. Her film-poems are underpinned by experimental collages of images and sounds, discovered and produced, to reflect upon situations and contexts which are historically and geographically marked by narratives of violence and repression. Expansions or consequences of her films, her practice may also be embodied in writing, critical pedagogy, installations, film programs, or ephemeral events.

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LENGTH: 31 min.

YEAR: 2021

COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Portugal

DIRECTOR: Ana Vaz

CAST: Vera Amaral, Mário Neto, Paula Nascimento, Ana  Vaz, Nuno da Luz

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ana Vaz, Vera Amaral, Mário Neto

EDITING: Ana Vaz, Deborah Viegas

SOUND DESIGN : Ana Vaz

SOUND: Mário Neto, Nuno da Luz, Catarina Boieiro

 

PRODUCTION:  EGEAC – Galerias Municipais de Lisboa

CO-PRODUCTION: Anze Persin, Stenar Projects, Ana Vaz

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