Quem és tu?, de João Botelho. Contaminação de imagens e produção de sentido(s)

Mário Avelar

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Abstract

This essay proposes a reflection on the presence of painting in Quem És Tu?, the film directed by João Botelho about Frei Luís de Sousa, written by Almeida Garrett. We evoke the legacy of the theoretical formulations developed around the debate on the arts of space and time, in order to shed light upon the function of painting as an instrument of hermeneutic questioning and enlargement. Hence, in a first approach we study the specific function of the concept of “gaze”, introducing the dimension of play and subsequently analyze the particular dialogues with Caravaggio, El Greco and Francis Bacon, through which João Botelho insinuates a pedagogy of the image.
Original languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)103-115
Number of pages13
JournalComunicação & Cultura
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2013

Keywords

  • Interart dialogues
  • Painting
  • Literature
  • Cinema
  • Space
  • Time
  • Gaze

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