SNOW WHITE (2000, JOAO CESAR MONTEIRO)

Of all the films produced by Paolo Branco, the one I would like to see the most is SNOW WHITE (75 min), because I have heard that this film is influenced by Marguerite Duras (my most favorite director) and Guy Debord, and has been released as a DVD since 2004, but I can't find this DVD in Bangkok. In this version of SNOW WHITE, Joao Cesar Monteiro uses only black screen for all scenes with dialogue, and in between-scenes he inserts images of the sky,clouds, and the graves.

This is a comment in imdb.com for SNOW WHITE (2000)

"It's original, provocative and tries to mess up with our most deeply concepts. Cesar Monteiro's filmography is full of these ingredients, but in this particular case, it goes to the extreme, because it changes one of the most important concepts of cinema: To Watch something! When you listen to a song, you don't expect to see anything, just listen to it… when you read a book, you know you will have to imagine all the characters' faces, all the colors, all the scenarios…When you watch a movie you're expecting to see all the story, what is really happening on the screen. But here you don't, you just watch a black screen almost all the time!:"

More information on SNOW WHITE can be read at:
http://www.ncncine.com/20052.html

Some films of Guy Debord can be watched at:
http://www.ubu.com/film/debord.html

I just saw a short film called REVOLUTIONARY SONG (2005, Istvan Kantor, A+), and this film also mentioned Guy Debord.

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