The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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The Films of Miguel Gomes
September 3–12, 2010 at
Anthology Film Archives
, New York
With just two features and half a dozen shorts to his name, Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema, developing an exhilaratingly original, truly head-scratching, and inexplicably beguiling approach to filmmaking. Combining the meta-fictional gamesmanship and mystery of Jacques Rivette with the blurring of documentary and narrative modes that has proven a favored (and highly productive) strategy of many of today's most gifted filmmakers (Pedro Costa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ulrich Seidl, and others), Gomes has confidently staked out a territory all his own. His most recent feature film, Our Beloved Month of August is truly something new under the sun, a category-exploding whatsit that's nevertheless so seductive and effortlessly compelling from moment to moment that its wanderings between different cinematic realms (conceived as a fictional film, it transformed itself into a documentary on summer music festivals in rural Portugal when the funding fell through, only to grope its way back towards fiction during production) ultimately seem almost irrelevant.
Featured Works:
The New York theatrical premiere run of Our Beloved Month of August (pictured), alongside screenings of Gomes's earlier shorts and debut feature The Face You Deserve (2004).
Program information:
Northwest Film Forum
September 14-16, 2010
The Portuguese Melodies of Miguel Gomes
Harvard Film Archive
September 17-18, 2010
