Portrait

Portrait — Plot

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

• Release date
• January 1, 1963
• Runtime
• 13 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Jon Jost