Programme Five
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Pedro Costa
Ossos 1997 © Pedro Costa |
Sunday 27 September 2009, 18.00
Bones (Ossos), Portugal/France/Denmark 1997, 94 min
An infant is born to a suicidal teenaged mother. His equally young, blank-faced father uses the child as a prop for begging and then tries to sell him, out of despair, out of love, for nothing at all.
With support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch, and Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies
(CILAVS), Birkbeck, University of London.
Tate Modern
Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
