Portrait

Filmmaker's name not on film; credit supplied from can.; End title: casina amata 1963.; Running time at 24 fps: 09:33.; Date on film: 1963.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; The film begins with a black and white pan over a dress worn by a young woman. Her face is not seen. Next, a snowy hill with barren trees is panned by the camera, with some images dissolving into each other. The muddy street of a village is shown, with different angles of the same street intercut. Women hang their wash outside. The woman in the dress seen at the beginning of the film stands in the street. Color closeups of her face and neck and a pan of her body are intercut with the snowy hill and village street scenes. For the closeups, the camera dominates the woman's body, which sits in a chair with hands folded.; PFA 1604-82-3976. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 20 Feb 1993; scratches; splices; pink; Poor condition: many splices; color sequences pink; seven cement splices where color sequences spliced in--cement splices formed with mag film