The Artist and the City

The Artist and the City
Directed byManoel de Oliveira
Written byManoel de Oliveira
Produced byManoel de Oliveira
StarringAntónio Cruz
CinematographyManoel de Oliveira
Edited byManoel de Oliveira
Music byLuís Rodrigues
Release date
  • 1956 (1956)
Running time
26 min
CountryPortugal

The Artist and the City (Portuguese: O Pintor e a Cidade) is a 1956 short Portuguese documentary film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. The film shows a series of watercolor paintings by Portuguese artist António Cruz of what he sees while walking through different parts of the city of Porto.[1] It was the first color film directed by Oliveira.[2] Oliveira considers it forms a trilogy about the Douro and Porto, with Douro, Faina Fluvial and Aniki-Bóbó[3]

References

  1. ^ "O Pintor e a Cidade | Viennale". www.viennale.at. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  2. ^ "Manoel de Oliveira. Retrato do cineasta enquanto fotógrafo de eleição". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  3. ^ Viegas, Susana (2021). "Cinema, the City, and Manoel de Oliveira's Logic of Sensation" (PDF). Nova Research.