Cinema and Poetry: Approaching António Reis' work

Abstract

The present article aims to map relations between the poetical work by António Reis and his cinematographic work, directed alongside with Margarida Cordeiro. Such relations will be both formal, considering the procedures of film editing and the literary resources, as well as thematic. What’s poetic in Reis and Cordeiro’s films? What’s cinematographic – or shall we say cinematic? – in António Reis’ poems? Taking as starting point the notions of cinema of poetry (Pier Paolo Pasolini) and cinema from poetry (Rosa Maria Martelo), we will try to approach the creation of an atmosphere (José Gil) and a common style to the aesthetic productions by António Reis, briefly, a way-of-life (Giorgio Agamben)?