About a film, about a poem II

The cinematic and poetic arts are deeply intertwined. Films inspired by poems, poems born from cinematic works, or filmmakers who root their deepest expressions in poetic language—these are just a few dimensions of this interdisciplinary relationship. In their visual, rhythmic and formal potency, the two arts are often brought into creative comparison. ‘A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet,’ said Orson Welles. And through the words of poets, what makes a film unique? For the second edition of the exhibition Sobre um filme, sobre um poema, we invited poet, critic and editor Diogo Vaz Pinto to select 10 poets to write about a film of his choosing. The resulting poems by Ana Estaregui, Andreia Farinha, Beatriz Almeida Rodrigues, Carlos Poças Falcão, Catarina Costa, Fabiano Calixto, Fernando Ramalho, João Vasco Rodrigues, Maria Lis and Zetho Cunha Gonçalves will be on display in Foyers 1 and 2.

Free entry