In October, the Panorama Film Series at The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) presents Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa.
Pedro Costa (b. 1959), a Portuguese filmmaker unknown in America, is quickly gaining fame thanks to this touring retrospective of his six features and various shorts, organized in the wake of the worldwide acclaim for his latest movie, Colossal Youth. Costa’s poetic, minimalist movies – often hybrids of documentary and fiction – have been likened to the ascetic masterworks of the great Robert Bresson.
Colossal Youth is the third part of a trilogy that Costa filmed in Fontainhas, a Lisbon shantytown populated largely by poor immigrants from Cape Verde.
Working in close collaboration with the residents of this crumbling slum, Costa, in this film and the two earlier ones (Ossos, In Vanda’s Room), captured the lives of downtrodden people in a sensitive, non-exploitative way that exposes the condescension, heavy-handedness and sentimentality of many social-realist films. -- www.clevelandart.org
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