Pedro Costa and the Revolutionary Constellation of Portuguese ...

When a painting is reproduced by a film camera it inevitably becomes material for the film-maker’s argument.

One of the things Anton and I agreed on when we first started our studio is that we would use any kind of downtime between projects for personal experimentation. During these pauses, we create our own project brief and

Academia stifles cinema, encircling it like a liana vine wraps round a tree, smothering and draining away all life. Construct films, don’t deconstruct them. Create poetry, don’t destroy it. Whenever I encounter film theorists, I lower my head and charge.

In this sense, the cinema is one way that contemporary society keeps the symbolic life and mythological world alive.

Tous ces grands cinéastes n’étaient pas des gens qui essayaient de plaire ou d’être prévenants, c’étaient des gens avec leurs qualités et leurs défauts mais tous fascinés par la nature humaine ou par la société, qu’ils éclairaient d’une certaine lumière, ni douce ni indulgente mais vraie. Et c’est ce qui permettait au

he has invented his own cinematic universe where out of chaos and detritus come moments of pure poetry and the deepest enlightenment.