Within the Time Continuum – The Films of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro

Portugal has an incredibly rich film culture – you only have to think of Manoel de Oliveira, Paulo Rocha, João César Monteiro, Pedro Costa, João Pedro Rodrigues and Miguel Gomes. Yet another name is equally deserving of inclusion on this list: António Reis (1927–1991), who was an important colleague, teacher and mentor for all the above and had a huge influence on the development of Portuguese cinema following the Carnation Revolution as well as on the young generation of filmmakers that followed. Revered in his homeland, yet almost unknown outside of Portugal, the films of António Reis (1927-1991) were made in the 70s and 80s in collaboration with his wife Margarida Cordeiro (*1939) and are regarded as milestones in both Portuguese and international film history. We are very happy to be able to present the four works by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro in restored prints, works unusual in both form and content that have unjustly faded into comparative obscurity. We are also showing a film by Manoel de Oliveira that Reis assisted on. Vítor Gonçalves, a filmmaker and professor at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon, where he himself studied under António Reis, will be our guest at the opening weekend and give an introduction to the oeuvre of Reis/Cordeiro.