Portrait

Portrait

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1963

Runtime

0h 13m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

40%

Original Title

Portrait

Director

Jon Jost

Description

The aesthetic moves progressively from loose “underground” means using expressionistic camera movement, multiple exposures, droning sequences and shock cut towards a static, didactic form of “documentary” marked with long takes, minimal camera movement, a surface concentration on showing how things are. Being silent they operate on sheerly visual means. From the outset they grapple with socio-political issues with the stifling atmosphere of Catholic family life in Italy