From “Horse Money” to “Vitalina Varela”

the sound-image

Authors

  • Edmundo José Neves Cordeiro Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2020v16n2p309

Abstract

There are all kinds of coincidences and clashes between the past and the present in Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014) that emerge in a form of glossolalia with voices bringing back memories from everywhere. In Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019), there, it is Vitalina's voice (Vitalina is now the person and ‘character’ of the film, a Cape Verdean woman who arrives in Portugal three days after her husband's funeral) that is printed throughout the film, now raising the level of hers whispers in the previous film, Horse Money.It is our intention to describe these films taking consequences from the concept of “sound-image” presented in L’image-temps by Gilles Deleuze. There is a separation, a disjunction, or a stratigraphic overlapping — «the more complete examples of seeing-talking disjunction can be found in film» — that we think it is the core of Pedro Costa's aesthetics and politics.

Author Biography

Edmundo José Neves Cordeiro, Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa

Edmundo Cordeiro is Associate Professor and currently Professor of Theory and Aesthetics of film.

He holds a Ph.D. in Communications Sciences and did post-doctoral studies on the work of Canadian and Portuguese filmmakers, namely Pierre Perrault and Pedro Costa.

Among other publications, he is the author of «Actos de Cinema» [Acts of Cinema], on the film aesthetics of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and of the book «Pedro Costa e Pierre Perrault».

Edmundo Cordeiro directed the film «Todas as Cartas de Rimbaud» [‘All Rimbaud’s Letters’] (about the Portuguese philosopher Maria Filomena Molder, premiered at Doclisboa’17), and was script-doctor of the fiction film «O Capacete Dourado» [‘The Golden Helmet’], screenwriter of «Na Escola» [‘At School’], «O Rebocador» [‘The Tow Truck Driver’], and «Amor Amor» [‘Love Love’], all directed by Jorge Cramez (2007, 2010, 2014 and 2016). Presently, he works on the film projects «Tentação, Cabeça e Coração» [‘Temptation, Head and Heart’], «Rebuçados Venezianos» [‘Venetian Candy’].

References

DELEUZE, Gilles. Cinéma 2. L’image-temps. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1985.

VITALINA Varela. Direção: Pedro Costa. Portugal, 2019.

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Published

2020-12-22

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2020): Imagens e imaginários na era digital/virtual

Section

Dossiê

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