Doclisboa seeks to imagine reality through new cinematic forms of perception, reflection and action, placing filmmaking into dialogue with its history to question the present of cinema. Doclisboa is interested in films that are rigorous about their conceptual and formal implications; films that experiment with cinema’s artistic and political possibilities and refuse to be categorized; films that engage with and mirror the complexity of the world. Doclisboa offers a ground where cinema and the contemporary are investigated as acts of being together in, and with, time.

Parallel Activities

Jaime

António Reis

1974 • Portugal • 35’

The universe, life and work of Jaime Fernandes, a peasant born in the Barco parish (Covilhã, Beira Baixa), struck by a fatal disease (paranoid schizophrenia) at the age of 38. Admitted to Miguel Bombarda Hospital (Lisbon), he died there in 1967, at the age of 69. When he was 65, he started painting, and during that short period of time until his death, he carried out a genius pictorial work, influenced by the social and hospital environment.

Screened with

Altas Cidades de Ossadas

João Salaviza

19-10-2019
21:00 • AP • 83’

Cinema São Jorge

Sala 3