The Artist and the City

1956 Portuguese film

The Artist and the City

Directed by| Manoel de Oliveira
Written by| Manoel de Oliveira
Produced by| Manoel de Oliveira
Starring| António Cruz
Cinematography| Manoel de Oliveira
Edited by| Manoel de Oliveira
Music by| Luís Rodrigues

Release date

* 1956 (1956)

Running time

| 26 min
Country| Portugal

The Artist and the City (Portuguese: O Pintor e a Cidade) is a 1956 short Portuguese documentary film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. The film shows a series of watercolor paintings by Portuguese artist António Cruz of what he sees while walking through different parts of the city of Porto.[1] It was the first color film directed by Oliveira.[2] Oliveira considers it forms a trilogy about the Douro and Porto, with Douro, Faina Fluvial and Aniki-Bóbó[3]

## References

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1. ^ "O Pintor e a Cidade | Viennale". www.viennale.at. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
2. ^ "Manoel de Oliveira. Retrato do cineasta enquanto fotógrafo de eleição". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
3. ^ Viegas, Susana (2021). "Cinema, the City, and Manoel de Oliveira's Logic of Sensation" (PDF). Nova Research.

## External links

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* The Artist and the City at IMDb

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Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira

* Douro, Faina Fluvial
* Aniki-Bóbó
* The Artist and the City
* Rite of Spring
* The Hunt
* Past and Present
* Benilde or the Virgin Mother
* Doomed Love
* Francisca
* The Satin Slipper
* My Case
* The Cannibals
* No, or the Vain Glory of Command
* The Divine Comedy
* Day of Despair
* Abraham's Valley
* The Box
* The Convent
* Party
* Voyage to the Beginning of the World
* Anxiety
* The Letter
* Word and Utopia
* I'm Going Home
* Porto of My Childhood
* The Uncertainty Principle
* A Talking Picture
* The Fifth Empire
* Magic Mirror
* Belle Toujours
* Christopher Columbus – The Enigma
* Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
* The Strange Case of Angelica
* Gebo and the Shadow
* The Old Man of Belem
* Visit or Memories and Confessions

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