The Artist and the City

1956 Portuguese film
  • 1956 (1956)
Running time
26 minCountryPortugal

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.

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