| Música para Os Faroleiros |
Performance |
2023/Mar/31 |
Culturgest |
Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium |
Lisbon |
Portugal |
The Arditti Quartet
Irvine Arditti (violin), Ashot Sarkissian (violin), Ralf Ehlers (viola), Lucas Fels (cello) |
Notes
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Premiered in 1922, this rarity of Portuguese silent cinema is presented with a new sound composition, commissioned by Batalha Centro de Cinema from composer Daniel Moreira and performed live by the string quartet The Arditti Quartet. Filmed in the turbulent waters where the Tejo and the Atlantic meet and directed by Maurice Mariaud, Os Faroleiros was lost for decades, having been found in the Palácio do Bolhão, in Porto, in 1993 — where the company of producer Raul de Caldevilla, pioneer of advertising films in Portugal, had its headquarters. A film that, due to its pioneering spirit and technical audacity, became a landmark of European silent cinema, at a time when the most challenging and ambitious films were the result of the efforts of multinational teams, who resorted to the most varied exercises of imagination to reproduce, on the screen, unknown realities.
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| Premiered in 1922, this rarity of Portuguese silent cinema is presented with a new sound composition, commissioned by Batalha Centro de Cinema from composer Daniel Moreira and performed live by the string quartet The Arditti Quartet. Filmed in the turbulent waters where the Tejo and the Atlantic meet and directed by Maurice Mariaud, Os Faroleiros was lost for decades, having been found in the Palácio do Bolhão, in Porto, in 1993 — where the company of producer Raul de Caldevilla, pioneer of advertising films in Portugal, had its headquarters. A film that, due to its pioneering spirit and technical audacity, became a landmark of European silent cinema, at a time when the most challenging and ambitious films were the result of the efforts of multinational teams, who resorted to the most varied exercises of imagination to reproduce, on the screen, unknown realities. |
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| Música para Os Faroleiros |
Premiere |
2023/Mar/22 |
Concert-films |
Batalha Centro de Cinema |
Porto |
Portugal |
The Arditti Quartet
Irvine Arditti (violin), Ashot Sarkissian (violin), Ralf Ehlers (viola), Lucas Fels (cello) |
Notes
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The restoration of this rarity of Portuguese silent cinema is premiered, with a new sound composition commissioned from Daniel Moreira and performed live by the string quartet The Arditti Quartet, at the invitation of Batalha.
In this drama — an ambitious production from the 1920s restored within the framework of FILMar, a project operated by Cinemateca Portuguesa, a partner and promoter of this initiative, with the support of the EEAGrants 2020/2024 program — we follow a fatal love triangle.
Around Rosa (located in the lighthouse after her father's death at sea), the lighthouse keeper João Vidal, for whom she has feelings, and António Gaspar, another lighthouse keeper who is driven by jealousy, a lovely narrative drifts between affection and violence, always with the sea as an omnipresent element.
Filmed in the turbulent waters where the Tejo and the Atlantic meet and directed by Maurice Mariaud (who here also plays the role of João Vidal), Os Faroleiros (1922) was lost for decades, having been found in the Palácio do Bolhão, in Porto, in 1993 — where the company of producer Raul de Caldevilla, pioneer of advertising films in Portugal, had its headquarters.
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The restoration of this rarity of Portuguese silent cinema is premiered, with a new sound composition commissioned from Daniel Moreira and performed live by the string quartet The Arditti Quartet, at the invitation of Batalha.
In this drama — an ambitious production from the 1920s restored within the framework of FILMar, a project operated by Cinemateca Portuguesa, a partner and promoter of this initiative, with the support of the EEAGrants 2020/2024 program — we follow a fatal love triangle.
Around Rosa (located in the lighthouse after her father's death at sea), the lighthouse keeper João Vidal, for whom she has feelings, and António Gaspar, another lighthouse keeper who is driven by jealousy, a lovely narrative drifts between affection and violence, always with the sea as an omnipresent element.
Filmed in the turbulent waters where the Tejo and the Atlantic meet and directed by Maurice Mariaud (who here also plays the role of João Vidal), Os Faroleiros (1922) was lost for decades, having been found in the Palácio do Bolhão, in Porto, in 1993 — where the company of producer Raul de Caldevilla, pioneer of advertising films in Portugal, had its headquarters. |
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