Revolução
- Date of creation : 1975
- Country : Portugal
- Duration : 00:10:46
- Artist - Author : Ana Hatherly
Description
The artist works on the walls of Lisbon and its torn posters and mixes in the soundtrack of political meetings and the sounds of the street.
"Ana Hatherly's work and artistic activity is characterized by the affirmation of an authorial space that is extensible and transversal to the domains of literature and visual arts. Poet, essayist and visual artist, she also dedicated herself to carrying out projects in the field of cinema. At the beginning of the seventies he attended the cinematographic studies course at the London Film School and, throughout that decade, he would make a series of very unique films, which manifested his interest in animation and research focused on the field of language and visuality.
Presented for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 1976, the film entitled Revolution, from 1975, is part of this group of short film works. Filmed on the streets of Lisbon, after the 25th of April, with a Super 8 camera, it documents the political propaganda posters, graffiti and murals of revolutionary ideology inscribed on the city's walls.
At a fast pace, the images recorded and the film's editing represent exemplarily the plural manifestation of voices in the Portuguese political scene as well as the collective participation and contagious euphoria experienced in the public space. An evocative testimony to the social and political environment that marked the revolutionary period of contemporary Portuguese history, this work simultaneously reveals the artist's relationship with the city of Lisbon and the surrounding world. Ana Hatherly records, documents and performs on the city's streets, creatively positioning herself in the face of the striking characteristics of urban culture at such a significant moment in Portuguese history."
(Source, website, Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian)
Additional Informations
The film was screened at the Venice Biennale in 1976.
Collection of the Center for Modern Art, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
View still images from the work on Gulpenkian's website