Antão, o invisível
Sergio Da Costa & Maya Kosa
Switzerland, Portugal | 2017 | 17 min
World premiere
Language : Portuguese
Subtitles : English, French
The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a triptych by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, exhibited in the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon. In a visionary manner, it reproduces the temptations of the holy man in the desert by playing with the religious allegory, the mystical symbols of his age and the popular taste for illustration. More than a real image, it is a mental image. This mental image, which transforms very quickly into imagination, is therefore the subject of Anthony, the Invisible One, in which a guide presents the famous painting to three different audiences: sighted people, blind people, and a deaf and blind man. With access keys that are specific to each audience, the work is gradually unveiled. In seventeen minutes (such is the length of this short film), a question emerges again and again, without being asked: in the field of art, what does seeing mean? Does the perception of a work of art correspond to a visual approach? Or does it instead involve the world of ideas and imagination? The answer is perhaps in a stupefying final revelation.
Luciano Barisone
