^{FILM 1}

The three Graces

Director: Luís Noronha da Costa
Portugal, 1972
Duration: 3 minutes
No dialogue
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Final debate with the curator, the director and André Dias

SYNOPSIS

The duo of cinema and painting. The image as a mirror or the image as the mirror of the image.

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Screenplay: Luís Noronha da Costa
Photography: Luís Noronha da Costa
Editing: Luís Noronha da Costa

^{FILM 2}

House on house

Director: Luís Noronha da Costa
Portugal, 1972
Duration: 3 minutes
No dialogue
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Final debate with the curator, the director and André Dias

SYNOPSIS

Someone seen at a window, what that person sees (off-screen), an image superimposed on their reflection. Once again, the image as the mirror of the image.

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Screenplay: Luís Noronha da Costa
Photography: Luís Noronha da Costa
Editing: Luís Noronha da Costa

^{FILM 3}

Manuela

Director: Luís Noronha da Costa
Portugal, 1972
Duration: 5 minutes
No dialogue
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Final debate with the curator, the director and André Dias

SYNOPSIS

The portrait of the body and soul of a woman during a ritual.

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Screenplay: Luís Noronha da Costa
Photography: Luís Noronha da Costa
Editing: Luís Noronha da Costa
With: Manuela de Freitas, Melim Teixeira, João Mota and members of the theatre group “A Comuna”

^{FILM 4}

Miss Maria

Director: Luís Noronha da Costa
Portugal, 1972
Duration: 17 minutes
No dialogue
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Final debate with the curator, the director and André Dias

SYNOPSIS

A throwback to the silent movie, “pure cinema” free of narrative contingencies, conducive to contemplation and escape.

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Screenplay: Luís Noronha da Costa
Photography: Luís Noronha da Costa
Editing: Luís Noronha da Costa

^{FILM 5}

Murnau

Director: Luís Noronha da Costa
Portugal, 1972
Duration: 3 minutes
No dialogue
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Final debate with the curator, the director and André Dias

SYNOPSIS

An echo of Friedrich Murnau’s Nosferatu, a film of transfiguration, of the ghosts that visit the living and carry them off to their world.

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Screenplay: Luís Noronha da Costa
Photography: Luís Noronha da Costa
Editing: Luís Noronha da Costa

^{FILM 6}

The constructor of angels

Director: Luís Noronha da Costa
Portugal, 1978
Duration: 41 minutes
Original version: Portuguese
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Final debate with the curator, the director and André Dias

SYNOPSIS

In the late 19th century, an English couple living in Portugal have to travel abroad. They leave their seven-year-old daughter in a convent where children are drowned in a lake, with their baptism being invoked against the forces of evil.

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Screenplay: Luís Noronha da Costa
Photography: Acácio de Almeida
Editing: Jorge Loureiro, Teresa Caldas
With: Suzi Turner, Anthony Peter, Mafalda de Mello e Castro, António Caldeira Pires, Agostinho Alves