Collections/October 2020

Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues

Featuring Where Are You, João Pedro Rodrigues? , a short self-portrait by the director from 2016 Sexy, cerebral, and transgressive, the films of Portuguese auteur João Pedro Rodrigues are fearless explorations of queer identity, alienation, and desire that reach for—and frequently attain—the transcendent. Fascinated by the tension between the carnal and the spiritual, Rodrigues has explored the extreme limits of both in daring tales of physical and psychic transfiguration like his startling debut, the grimy erotic shocker O Fantasma , and most recent feature, the iconoclastic modern-day religious odyssey The Ornithologist . Teeming with some of the most striking and extravagant images in contemporary cinema, Rodrigues’s films are unforgettable feasts for the eyes as well as the intellect. Added on Thursday, 22 October 2020

5 films — 0 on the Channel, 5 unavailable