Underplayed Gems

Azul no Azul (2022)

Azul no Azul poster
Directed by
Gianmarco Donaggio
Country
Portugal
Runtime
6 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is an experimental film made in collaboration with a painter and a museum. It uses a single blue image and explores color and texture.

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What happens

Azul no Azul (English title: Blue in Blue) is a short Portuguese experimental film created by Italian filmmaker Gianmarco Donaggio and Portuguese painter Nelson Ferreira. The film was produced and distributed in collaboration with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Portugal, and it premiered at the museum on the 28th of July 2022, after which it was exhibited in the cinema of the museum from the 29th of July until the 15th of September 2022. A second version was created for Soares dos Reis National Museum to celebrate the 150 years of the sculpture ‘The Exiled’ by António Soares dos Reis and was continuously screened at the museum from the 10th of December 2022 until 19 March 2023. The city of Lucca projected it on a loop for a week. Listed by Berlinale Talents when the director was nominated as Talent in 2024. The film was later consecrated in Portugal, where it was screened at the Portuguese Cinematheque. Art critic Simona Frigerio compared this film to Derek Jarman's last masterpiece Blue.[1] (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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