13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD

by Ana VAZ
2020 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / 1S / 31' 00

Taking its title from the poem by Wallace Stevens, 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD is composed of a series of attempts of looking and being looked at. Originating from a commission from Lisbon's Galerias Municipais and the educational outreach program Descola (Unschool), the film became a kaleidoscope of the experiences, questions and wonders encountered by a couple of high school students, who - over a period of one year and together with filmmaker Ana Vaz - questioned what cinema can be. Here, the camera becomes an instrument of inquiry, a pencil, a song. “The film is a song you can see” wrote one of the students in a collective constellation of phrases and drawings made during one of the workshops. The phrase is a perfect description of a film that explores a nascent ecology of the senses.

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distribution format Digital file on USB stick (FHD)
screen 1,37 - Standard (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound sound
original language English & Portuguese
translation English (Separate subtitles file)
rental fee 150,00 €

distribution format Digital file on USB stick (FHD)
screen 1,37 - Standard (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound sound
original language English & Portuguese
translation Spanish (Separate subtitles file)
rental fee 150,00 €

distribution format DCP on USB stick (SMPTE 2K)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound sound
original language English & Portuguese
translation English (Embedded subtitles)
rental fee 150,00 €

distribution format DCP on USB stick (SMPTE 2K)
version original version
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 24 fps
sound sound
original language English & Portuguese
rental fee 150,00 €