Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

(2021)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2021

Runtime: 31 мин

Country: Brazil, Portugal

Director: Ana Vaz

Cast: Max Lucas Amaral, Paula Nascimento, Ana Vaz, Nuno da Luz, Mário Neto

Plot

Taking its title from the poem by Wallace Stevens, the film is composed of a series of attempts at looking and being looked at. Beginning as a city state commission under the name and attitude of “Unschool”, the film became a kaleidoscope of the experiences, questions and wonders of a couple of high school students after a year of experiences with filmmaker Ana Vaz questioning what cinema can be. Here, the camera becomes an instrument of inquiry, a pencil, a song.