Comptar amb els dits: espai i moviment en el cinema de Pere Portabella

Pere Portabella's films are characterized by their difficulty. We must turn back and rethink old attitudes developed as spectators of commercial films, brainless pastimes in the style of Hollywood blockbusters. This article discusses Portabella’s approach to cinema paying attention to his 2007 feature Die Stille vor Bach (El silenci abans de Bach, The silence before Bach) in which particular attention is paid to the problems of space –architecture– and movement (walking and traveling).