Beneath The Surface: Pools on Film

Scenery, foreshadowing, metaphor, protagonist — the swimming pool has been used with a multiplicity of premises and purposes in the history of cinema, not only for its natural shimmering imagery, but above all for its ability to represent universes and emotions from our collective imagination.

Through public or private pools, full or empty, this programme explores stories that call on the figure of the pool and place it in the leading role. What is the charm of these concrete basins, which somehow imprison nature for our pleasure and dreams? How do their games of colour and light stimulate encounters and separations, also constituting spaces of fantasy, otherness and care, sometimes revealing inequalities and violence?

Presenting a selection of works from the 1930s to the present day and crossing various genres and aesthetics, from the artist's film to the aquatic musical, we show how swimming pools are used in cinema, discursively and figuratively, becoming vehicles for reflections on the body, desire, death, community, class and ecologies.

Curated by Guilherme Blanc and Lídia Queirós, with support from Sofia Lemos Marques

Sob a Superfície: A Piscina no Cinema
Beneath The Surface: Pools on Film
5
September

10
November

Scenery, foreshadowing, metaphor, protagonist — the swimming pool has been used with a multiplicity of premises and purposes in the history of cinema, not only for its natural shimmering imagery, but above all for its ability to represent universes and emotions from our collective imagination.

Through public or private pools, full or empty, this programme explores stories that call on the figure of the pool and place it in the leading role. What is the charm of these concrete basins, which somehow imprison nature for our pleasure and dreams? How do their games of colour and light stimulate encounters and separations, also constituting spaces of fantasy, otherness and care, sometimes revealing inequalities and violence?

Presenting a selection of works from the 1930s to the present day and crossing various genres and aesthetics, from the artist's film to the aquatic musical, we show how swimming pools are used in cinema, discursively and figuratively, becoming vehicles for reflections on the body, desire, death, community, class and ecologies.

Curated by Guilherme Blanc and Lídia Queirós, with support from Sofia Lemos Marques

Full programme

Los nadadores, Charlie López, 2022

The Swimmer, Frank Perry, 1968

Entretanto, Miguel Gomes, 1999

La naissance des pieuvres, Céline Sciamma, 2007

Memory of the Summer of ‘74, György Kovásznai, 1974

Deep End, Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970

Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta, 2001

La natation par Jean Taris, champion de France, Jean Vigo, 1931

Million Dollar Mermaid, Mervyn LeRoy, 1952

Nameless Syndrome, Jeamin Cha, 2022

Army of Love, Ingo Niermann and Alexa Karolinski, 2016

The Reflecting Pool, Bill Viola, 1979

Les diaboliques, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955

El Edén, Andrés Ramírez Pulido, 2016
La terraza, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, 1963
Pools, Barbara Hammer and Barbara Klutinis, 1981

A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan, 1973

Canoas, Tamar Guimarães, 2010

Que Horas Ela Volta?, Anna Muylaert, 2014

Moon’s Pool, Gunvor Nelson, 1973

Making a Splash, Peter Greenaway, 1984

Next screenings

The Intruder

,

Arte

,

2004
Fishing the Moon from the Pool

,

Zhou Kequin

,

1982
Wallace and Gromit — A Grand Day Out

,

Nick Park

,

1989
Simão

,

David Pinheiro Vicente

,

2016
Chocolat

,

Arte

,

1988
Man No Run

,

Arte

,

1989
No Fear, No Die

,

Arte

,

1990
I Can't Sleep

,

Arte

,

1993
Nénette and Boni

,

Arte

,

1996
Beau Travail

,

Arte

,

1999
Trouble Every Day

,

Arte

,

2001
Friday Night

,

Arte

,

2002
Towards Mathilde

,

Arte

,

2005
35 Shots of Rum

,

Arte

,

2008
White Material

,

Arte

,

2009
Bastards

,

Arte

,

2013
Let the Sunshine In

,

Arte

,

2017
Both Sides of the Blade

,

Arte

,

2022
High Life

,

Arte

,

2018
Stars at Noon

,

Arte

,

2022
The Day the Earth Stood Still

,

Jennifer Allora

,

1951
The New Sun

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2017
The Confederation — The People Make History

,

Francis Boespflug

,

1978
What the Sun Has Seen

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2017
Born in Flames

,

Catarina Ruivo

,

1983
John & Jane

,

Bernard Herrmann

,

2005
Air Conditioner

,

Fradique

,

2020
Space is the Place

,

John Coney

,

1974
1968<2018>2068

,

Keisha Rae Witherspoon

,

2018
The Great Silence

,

Georges Prat

,

2014
Flores

,

Jorge Jácome

,

2017
The War Game

,

Peter Watkins

,

1965
At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade into Each Other

,

Basel Abbas

,

2019
Party on the CAPS

,

Meriem Bennani

,

2018
Letters from a Dead Man

,

Konstantin Lopushansky

,

1986
Silent Running

,

Douglas Trumbull

,

1972
The Last Angel of History

,

Tindersticks

,

1995
Kirikou and the Sorceress

,

Michel Ocelot

,

1998
O Pesadelo do António Maria

,

Joaquim Guerreiro

,

1923
A Trip to the Moon

,

Pedro Henrique

,

1902
Gloria

,

Manuela Viegas

,

1999
Tall Stories

,

Karel Zeman

,

1987
Andre Valente

,

Catarina Ruivo

,

2003
Barehanded

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2016
In Case of Fire

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2019
Blindman’s Buff

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2021
When We Dead Awaken

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2022
A Sibila

,

Elso Roque

,

2023
Brazil

,

Terry Gilliam

,

1985
Supa Modo

,

Sky Hopinka

,

2018
Invention for Destruction

,

Guy Lecorne

,

1958
My Little Planet

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2016
The Thousand-Year Plan

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2021
How Do I Love Thee

,

Jeanne Waltz

,

1998
Xavier

,

Manuel Mozos

,

1991
Daybreak

,

Gabriel Abrantes

,

1939
Kicking the Clouds

,

Sky Hopinka

,

2021
Nosferasta: First Bite

,

Youssou N'Dour

,

2021
Maat

,

Fox Maxy

,

2020
Europa Europa

,

Agnieszka Holland

,

1990
maɬni — towards the ocean, towards the shore

,

Sky Hopinka

,

2020
Ste. Anne

,

Rhayne Vermette

,

2021
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

,

Walter Ruttmann

,

1927
The Jester

,

José Álvaro Morais

,

1987
Where the Summer Goes: Chapters on Youth

,

David Pinheiro Vicente

,

2018
The Lamb of God

,

David Pinheiro Vicente

,

2020
Matilde Olha Para Trás

,

2021
Calling Cabral

,

2022
The Circle

,

1970
Scanners

,

1981
K (Metamorphosis)

,

1953
Deprisa, deprisa

,

1981
Era uma vez...

,

1950
Dear Pyongyang

,

2005
Crimes of the Future

,

1970
Killing Time

,

1979
Natal 71

,

2000
Bread and Roses

,

2000
How to Build an Igloo

,

1949
The Mozart Brothers

,

1986
Masaje

,

1972
Sleepwalkers

,

2014
Paris 1900

,

1947
The Ape Star

,

2021
The White Bus

,

1967
Exterminator Seed

,

2017
Hatred

,

1995
The Brood

,

1979
House Was Born

,

2017
50th Anniversary: Don’t Look Now

,

1973
Breakfast at Tiffany’s

,

1961
Film-concert: The Voyager

,

2017
Foreign in a Domestic Sense

,

2021
Tiger Bay

,

1934
As Desventuras de Drácula Von Barreto nas Terras da Reforma Agrária

,

1977
Never Rest/Unrest

,

2020
Shaman

,

2017
Cathy Come Home

,

1966
Towards the Colonies

,

2016
Os Faroleiros

,

1922

Families

The Intruder

,

Arte

,

2004
Fishing the Moon from the Pool

,

Zhou Kequin

,

1982
Wallace and Gromit — A Grand Day Out

,

Nick Park

,

1989
Simão

,

David Pinheiro Vicente

,

2016
Chocolat

,

Arte

,

1988
Man No Run

,

Arte

,

1989
No Fear, No Die

,

Arte

,

1990
I Can't Sleep

,

Arte

,

1993
Nénette and Boni

,

Arte

,

1996
Beau Travail

,

Arte

,

1999
Trouble Every Day

,

Arte

,

2001
Friday Night

,

Arte

,

2002
Towards Mathilde

,

Arte

,

2005
35 Shots of Rum

,

Arte

,

2008
White Material

,

Arte

,

2009
Bastards

,

Arte

,

2013
Let the Sunshine In

,

Arte

,

2017
Both Sides of the Blade

,

Arte

,

2022
High Life

,

Arte

,

2018
Stars at Noon

,

Arte

,

2022
The Day the Earth Stood Still

,

Jennifer Allora

,

1951
The New Sun

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2017
The Confederation — The People Make History

,

Francis Boespflug

,

1978
What the Sun Has Seen

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2017
Born in Flames

,

Catarina Ruivo

,

1983
John & Jane

,

Bernard Herrmann

,

2005
Air Conditioner

,

Fradique

,

2020
Space is the Place

,

John Coney

,

1974
1968<2018>2068

,

Keisha Rae Witherspoon

,

2018
The Great Silence

,

Georges Prat

,

2014
Flores

,

Jorge Jácome

,

2017
The War Game

,

Peter Watkins

,

1965
At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade into Each Other

,

Basel Abbas

,

2019
Party on the CAPS

,

Meriem Bennani

,

2018
Letters from a Dead Man

,

Konstantin Lopushansky

,

1986
Silent Running

,

Douglas Trumbull

,

1972
The Last Angel of History

,

Tindersticks

,

1995
Kirikou and the Sorceress

,

Michel Ocelot

,

1998
O Pesadelo do António Maria

,

Joaquim Guerreiro

,

1923
A Trip to the Moon

,

Pedro Henrique

,

1902
Gloria

,

Manuela Viegas

,

1999
Tall Stories

,

Karel Zeman

,

1987
Andre Valente

,

Catarina Ruivo

,

2003
Barehanded

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2016
In Case of Fire

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2019
Blindman’s Buff

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2021
When We Dead Awaken

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2022
A Sibila

,

Elso Roque

,

2023
Brazil

,

Terry Gilliam

,

1985
Supa Modo

,

Sky Hopinka

,

2018
Invention for Destruction

,

Guy Lecorne

,

1958
My Little Planet

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2016
The Thousand-Year Plan

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2021
How Do I Love Thee

,

Jeanne Waltz

,

1998
Xavier

,

Manuel Mozos

,

1991
Daybreak

,

Gabriel Abrantes

,

1939
Kicking the Clouds

,

Sky Hopinka

,

2021
Nosferasta: First Bite

,

Youssou N'Dour

,

2021
Maat

,

Fox Maxy

,

2020
Europa Europa

,

Agnieszka Holland

,

1990
maɬni — towards the ocean, towards the shore

,

Sky Hopinka

,

2020
Ste. Anne

,

Rhayne Vermette

,

2021
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

,

Walter Ruttmann

,

1927
The Jester

,

José Álvaro Morais

,

1987
Where the Summer Goes: Chapters on Youth

,

David Pinheiro Vicente

,

2018
The Lamb of God

,

David Pinheiro Vicente

,

2020
Matilde Olha Para Trás

,

2021
Calling Cabral

,

2022
The Circle

,

1970
Scanners

,

1981
K (Metamorphosis)

,

1953
Deprisa, deprisa

,

1981
Era uma vez...

,

1950
Dear Pyongyang

,

2005
Crimes of the Future

,

1970
Killing Time

,

1979
Natal 71

,

2000
Bread and Roses

,

2000
How to Build an Igloo

,

1949
The Mozart Brothers

,

1986
Masaje

,

1972
Sleepwalkers

,

2014
Paris 1900

,

1947
The Ape Star

,

2021
The White Bus

,

1967
Exterminator Seed

,

2017
Hatred

,

1995
The Brood

,

1979
House Was Born

,

2017
50th Anniversary: Don’t Look Now

,

1973
Breakfast at Tiffany’s

,

1961
Film-concert: The Voyager

,

2017
Foreign in a Domestic Sense

,

2021
Tiger Bay

,

1934
As Desventuras de Drácula Von Barreto nas Terras da Reforma Agrária

,

1977
Never Rest/Unrest

,

2020
Shaman

,

2017
Cathy Come Home

,

1966
Towards the Colonies

,

2016
Os Faroleiros

,

1922

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