In Medias Res

Nov 03, 2014

(Luciana Fina, Portugal, 2013, digibeta, 72 min)

In the 1950s, Portuguese architect Manuel Tainha grew up as a young architect in Lisbon’s exciting modernist movement, and later became an acclaimed professor, going on to create work that subverted established standards for architectural form. 

More than a biographical documentary about a renowned architect, In Medias Res creates dialog between space and time, filmmaker and viewer, inside and outside, architecture and other art forms. 

For Tainha, concepts of space, time, and movement are fodder for artistic play rather than “absolute concepts”—in response, Fina (drawing on scenes from The Mind Benders, a 1963 thriller by Basil Dearden) flexes the documentary form as a way to playfully experience the boundaries between worlds of representation, design, feeling and language. 

  • This screening is part of our long weekend of N-E-X D-O-C-S, a mini festival that celebrates innovative new documentaries from around the world. Get a series pass and see all of the docs at a discount: $40 ($25 for Film Forum Members) >

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