The retrospective opens in New Yok, at Anthology Film Archives, on September the 3rd . It will proceed, with Miguel Gomes’ attending, at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle and in Harvard. Afterwards the retrospective will carry on in, among others, Washington, Chicago, LA, Portland…
The Harvard Film Archive present Miguel Gomes as a representative director of one of the most innovative currents in contemporary filmmaking. His short films are descibed as a “refreshingly eccentric” series that “revealed his innate talents as a sensual visual stylist interested in an intensely image based narrative in which music plays an equal role to dialogue”. About his features: “the unique energy and puckish charm of Gomes’ little known debut, the Alice in Wonderland-meets-Jacque Rivette narrative puzzle, THE FACE THAT YOU DESERVE, took the ludic tendencies of his cinema to a furthest extreme. The festival favorite OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST turned a new and important direction by responding to the “post-documentary” mode of innovative and unclassifiable non-fiction cinema.”
Anthology Film Archives
Harvard Film Archive
Northwest Film Forum