Oporto apresenta #26: Bleu Shut
Friday, November 18, 2011, 22:30h
Oporto, Salvador Correia de Sá, 42, 2 frente, 1200-399 Lisboa
"Bleu Shut" by Robert Nelson
16mm film, color, sound, 33', 1970
Robert Nelson is a celebrated film-maker that turned down the glories of the avant-garde for the joys of backyard projectionism. His films are ironic constructions, open questions made for the pleasures of gathering. “Bleu Shut” fits right in the so-called tradition of participatory-film. The film is an experiment built around a guessing game, where the act of “seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees”. *
“On the cognitive mechanisms of boat-naming and its effect on the uncertainties of the real.” - Alexandre Estrela
*title of book by Robert Irwin