CINEMA: "NO MORE REALITY?"

The four films included in the cycle, "No More Reality?”, summarize some of the main strategies of critical interrogation of the pragmatism, scientific positivism and industrial growth of the 1960s and 1970s. Reaffirming the relationship between aesthetics and politics, Chantal Akerman, Marco Ferreri, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Michelangelo Antonioni are filmmakers who, in different, but also ingenious manners, challenge all conventions. While testing the limits of political cinema and reinventing the heritage of psychedelic cinema, the films subvert the boundaries between high culture and subculture. Midway between the imagery of the great metropolis and the exoticism of the desert, between domestic confinement and appeal to "new age” flight, the films launch differentiated perspectives on the main issues of the day – such as feminism, repressive systems and social struggles, economic patterns and political utopias. They also assume suspension of rationality as a method and horizon, counter-posed to the ideological determinations that see, in the end of capitalism, the end of reality, and new forms of perception that are capable of radically undermining our very notion of reality. By claiming a deliberately iconoclastic outlook, the films presented in "No More Reality?” propose a dialogue with the Giorgio Griffa exhibition, and constitute some of the most iconic works of cinema from the 1960s and 1970s: portraits of an epoch that have repercussions on contemporary cinema and provide instruments of reflection to understand the present day.
Curator: António Preto
Ticket (one session): 3,00€ Ticket (all sessions): 9,00€

Image: Michelangelo Antonioni, "Zabriskie Point", 1970


Related Activities 8 JUN (wed), 21h30: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, 1975, Chantal Akerman 14 JUN (tue), 21h30: Dillinger è morto, Itália, 1969. Marco Ferreri 18 JUN (sat), 21h30: L’éden et après, França, 1970. Alain Robbe-Grillet 19 JUN (sun), 21h30: Zabriskie Point | USA, 1970. Michelangelo Antonioni