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António Ferreira Gonçalves dos Reis, known as António Reis (27 August 1925 – 10 September 1991), was a Portuguese
film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
,
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and producer,
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,
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and
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. He occupies an original place in the history of Portuguese film.


Life

Reis was born in 1925 in
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. He was also teacher at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School for several years. Reis died in Lisbon in September 10, 1991, of undetermined causes. Margarida Cordeiro, psychiatrist, was assistant director to Jaime (1974) and co-director of ''Trás-os-Montes'' (1976), ''Ana'' (1985) and ''Rosa de Areia'' (1989).


Legacy


Teaching

António Reis taught classes at the Portuguese National Film School, such as Filmic Space in 1977, and later Film Analysis, History of Image, Direction of Actors and Introduction to the Study of Image. One of the characteristics of his teaching method was that it was almost exclusively oral, existing very few written materials retaining his theory, in what could be stated to be a reflex of António Reis' beliefs in the ancient oral tradition. One of the recognizable aspects of António Reis' aesthetics was his structuring of the cinematographical unity around the exploration of the limits of the possibilities of the
match cut In film, a match cut is a cut from one shot to another in which the composition of the two shots are matched by the action or subject and subject matter. For example, in a duel a shot can go from a long shot on both contestants via a cut to a ...
producing visual rhymes, associations and understated meanings, clearly identifiable in works of his like ''Jaime'' or ''Trás-os-Montes''.


Influence

António Reis' works had a major impact on the practices of contemporaries of his like
Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wor ...
, whom Reis assisted in his second feature, '' Rite of Spring'', in 1963; Paulo Rocha, having Reis written the script for his feature ''Change of Life''; or
João César Monteiro João César Monteiro Santos (2 February 1939 – 3 February 2003) was a Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic. He is known for writing and directing films such as '' Recollections of the Yellow House'' (1989), '' God's Comedy ...
, whose quotations of Reis are clear in films as ''Recollections of the Yellow House'', ''God's Comedy'' or ''Silvestre''. However, Dennis Lim, in his article for the magazine
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, points out that "for today’s preeminent Portuguese filmmakers, no single figure has been more influential than António Reis." Through his teachings, Reis has had a major impact in the work of subsequent filmmakers of whom he was a professor, as Joaquim Sapinho,
Vítor Gonçalves Vítor Gonçalves is a Portuguese filmmaker, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is considered to be part of The School of Reis film family. Career Vítor Gonçalves was born in 1951 to Vasco Gonçalves. In 1979, he graduated fro ...
,
Pedro Costa Pedro Costa (born 30 December 1958) is a Portuguese film director. He is best known for his sequence of films set in Lisbon, which focuses on the lives of the impoverished residents of a slum in the Fontainhas neighbourhood. Biography After comp ...
, Manuela Viegas and João Pedro Rodrigues. Some of them, like Sapinho, Gonçalves or Viegas are today professors at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, the current name for the former Portuguese National Film School. His work and films influenced subsequent directors, whose informal group the historian Haden Guest, considering they form a cinematographic "family", called "The School of Reis".


Filmography

*1959: ''Auto de Floripes'' (co-director) *1963: ''Painéis do Porto'' *1964: ''Do Céu ao Rio'' (co-director wit
César Guerra Leal
*1966: ''Alto do Rabagão'' (co-director with César Guerra Leal) *1966: ''Mudar de Vida'' (directed by Paulo Rocha, script by António Reis) *1974: ''
Jaime Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...
'' *1976: ''
Trás-os-Montes Trás-os-Montes () is a geographical, historical and cultural region of Portugal. Portuguese language, Portuguese for "behind the mountains", Trás-os-Montes is located northeast of the country in an highland, upland area, landlocked by the Douro ...
'' (co-director with Margarida Cordeiro) *1985: '' Ana'' (co-director with Margarida Cordeiro) *1989: ''Rosa de Areia'' (co-director with Margarida Cordeiro)


Bibliography


Works by António Reis

* ''Chamas''.
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: Portugália, 1947. * ''Luz''. Porto: Portugália, 1948. * ''Roda de fogo''. Porto: Portugália, 1949. * ''Ronda do Suão''. Porto: Portugália, 1949. * ''Poemas do Cais''. Porto: Portugália, 1949. * ''Poemas do escritório''. Porto: Portugália, 1951. * ''Ode à amizade''. Porto: Portugália, 1952. * ''Poemas Quotidianos'' (1957) * ''Novos Poemas Quotidianos'' (1959) * ''Poemas Quotidianos'' - Col. Poetas de Hoje (1967; re-published in 2017, Tinta-da-China)


References


Further reading

* ''O Cais do Olhar'' by José de Matos-Cruz,
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, 1999


See also

* '' O Acto da Primavera'' (1962), directed by
Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wor ...
, assisted by António Reis


External links


António Reis
at the Harvard Film Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Reis, Antonio Portuguese film directors 1927 births 1991 deaths People from Vila Nova de Gaia