Oporto apresenta #25: Phaeton

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Oporto 25Oporto apresenta #25: Phaeton
Friday, October 21, 2011, 22:30h
Oporto, Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente, 1200-399 Lisboa

"Phaeton" by David Wharry
16mm film, b&w,sound, 7' 25, 1978
With the presence of the author

When a screen gets in contact with David Wharry`s films, it becomes a photosensitive membrane that, like an "Optogram" (an image imprinted on the retina), registers the surrounding action. The screen works, then, as a memory mechanism, a record of Wharry's actions, unveiling the inner-senses of his humorous cinematic charades.

It was in the late seventies that the author created "General Picture", a series of episodes built from the rubble of “noir” and mystery films. This body of work is a bright and mysterious plot on the foundations of the moving image. “Phæton” is one of the few episodes of "General Picture" which can be viewed independently. In this short film, Wharry makes us focus on the space between the retina and the eyelid to reveal the origin of the image and the birth of the otherness.

"Behind and beyond the eyelid" - Alexandre Estrela

 
Oporto is a studio and a non-profit screening room located in Lisboa. Occupying the former Merchant Sailors Union headquarters, Oporto projects from time to time a single unique experimental video or film. The programme is exquisite and extremely slow.The selection of the pieces screened is made, not only on the basis of the work itself, but also on an overall idea of an exquisite corpse . The space is directed by artist Alexandre Estrela, in cooperation with designers and associate program managers Antonio Gomes and Claudia Castelo a.k.a. Barbara Says. Sponsored by GAU- Gestão de Audiovisuais.

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Oporto - Lisboa, Portugal

Dates: 

Friday, October 21, 2011 - 22:30

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Dates: 

Friday, October 21, 2011 - 22:30

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  • Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente
    1200-399   Lisboa
    Portugal
    38° 42' 31.8384" N, 9° 8' 51.4356" W