Cinema Poetico

What has cinema to do with poetry? If poetry was enough, why need to invent another art form such as cinema? Poetic here, refers to not the poetry itself, but a way of seeing and making things poetically. Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz for example, uses the term to reject the causality of Hollywoodian perception of conflict and its resolution in cinema. Instead, this invites the audience to multiple narratives, shifting perspectives, imaginary solutions, visual detours, magical realism and more. Poetic cinema is about dreams, visions, ruptures, non-linearities, fragments, orality and affective moments. This series presents a hand-picked selection of masterpieces as well as hidden gems reflecting this rather undermined path of cinema.