Description:
This is the first English-language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, examining the cultural, production and exhibition contexts of his feature films, shorts and video installations. It situates Costa's filmmaking within the contexts of Portuguese, European and global art film, looking into his working practices alongside the impact of digital video, forms of collaborative authorship, and the intricate dialogue between modes of production and aesthetics.
Considering the exhibition, circulation and reception of Costa's creative output in settings such as film festivals, the art gallery circuit and the home video market, ReFocus: The Films of Pedro Costa provides an essential critical analysis of this major filmmaker - as well as of the multifaceted production and consumption practices that surround contemporary art cinema.
Brief description: Nuno Barradas Jorge is an Assistant Professor in Film and Media at the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies, University of Nottingham. He has published ReFocus: The Films of Pedro Costa (2020). He is the co-editor, with Tiago de Luca, of Slow Cinema (2016). His work appeared in, among others, Portugal's Global Cinema (2017) and Migration in Lusophone Cinema (2014).
Review Quotes: Anybody interested either in Costa's work or in the contexts within which it exists will find in the breadth and depth of the material presented in The Films of Pedro Costa an invaluable resource.--Dominic Lash, University of Bristol "Studies in European Cinema"