Ernesto de Sousa

Ernesto de Sousa was born in Lisbon in 1921. An art and film critic and a defender of neorealism, he founded one of the country's first film clubs, which the regime's police closed in 1948, and was the chief editor of the journal Imagem, in which he championed a new cinema. In 1960 he published a book on what cinema is, then studies on painters and on neorealist painting, organised exhibitions of African art and of popular artists from the North, and from the seventies onwards became a figure of the avant-garde and of performance art. He died in 1988.

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• CinemaDom RobertoErnesto de Sousa · 1962Cinema