The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira died today at 106 years, Porto and was the oldest world’s director in activity.
After 11 years without any use, in 2014 the Executive Board of the Port led by Rui Moreira independent decided to sell, at public auction held in May, the two fractions of the building designed by Eduardo Souto Moura to house the collection of the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira and has not arisen any buyer.
Official source of the Port Board said today the agency Lusa that later, and under the law, the municipality “tried to sell the property 5% below the price of the auction, also without success,” continuing “the house empty and the local authority to search for a solution. ”
“The local authority does not consider that this is the House Manoel de Oliveira, since never had that destination,” added the same official source.
On the day the auction was deserted, Rui Moreira said today that the architect Souto de Moura has been prepared to redesign the housing of the House called Manoel de Oliveira to make the building “appealing”.
On this theme, the same official authority source said today that “so far there has not been any practical development of this possibility.”
Rui Moreira justified the April 22, 2014 the sale of the equipment with the fact that not make sense “to keep a house that was never used,” recalling be known the construction project of a builded Manoel de Oliveira in Serralves.
The house project in Foz was launched in 1998 and the work was completed only in 2003, when the House was already led by Social Democrat Rui Rio, who defeated the Socialist Fernando Gomes in municipal elections 2001.
It has never been formalized an agreement with the director for the use of the house, and in November 2013, the Serralves Foundation signed a protocol with the family of Manoel de Oliveira to install the filmmaker’s estate in the northeast of the Serralves Park.
Use of this house has generated more than a decade of controversy, and in 2007, Manoel de Oliveira – who had been absent at the launching ceremony of the foundation stone in 2001 – blamed the House for the failure of creating your house-museum, accusing the failure to reply to his last contract offer, “May 2005″.
The filmmaker assured then that this house did not exist as an institution because the building was built without being formalized an agreement with the municipality.
In late 2009, the then Minister of Culture, Gabriela Canavilhas revealed that wanted to open the following year the pole of the Cinematheque in Port in the House of Arts, expressing wish that the space should welcome the estate of Manoel de Oliveira.
However, in 2011 the son of the director announced that fell through due to lack of agreement, the film collection of the transfer hypothesis Manoel de Oliveira for the building constructed by the House and said never to have been contacted about the estate installation in the House of Arts.
In November 2013, the Serralves Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and the director Manoel de Oliveira signed a protocol for the construction of the Cinema House – Manoel de Oliveira, space to locate the far northeast of Serralves Park, with a Siza Vieira architect of the project.
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