“PATERSON” 2016 | 1h58’ [US\DE\FR] | I THINK, I WRITE IV Cinema Scrnngs
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## CicloPENSO LOGO ESCREVO IV
["I THINK, THEREFORE I WRITE IV" Cinema Screenings]
“PATERSON” 2016 | M/12 | 1h58’ [US\DE\FR]
De Jim Jarmusch
Sexta Dia 06/03 às 19h30 [Friday 03/06 at 7:30pm]
Uma observação silenciosa dos triunfos e derrotas da vida quotidiana, bem como da poesia que se revela nos seus mais pequenos detalhes.
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese
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PENSO LOGO ESCREVO (I THINK, THEREFORE I WRITE) is the name of the Creative Writing Workshop proposed by PROSA as a space for inner listening and the creation of fiction, starting from a focus on narratology and the representation of reality. It is an invitation to practice a form of writing that puts us in touch with the ‘self’ — that being who sometimes reveals itself within us, sometimes in the other — building language as one would build a place. Writing is a gesture of search, a quest for being. A liberated act that, beyond enhancing communication skills, stands as a tool for care, resistance, and self-reinvention. In a world increasingly demanding of creativity, writing also becomes a means of survival — emotional, symbolic, and at times, physical.
Here, we encounter in Paterson (2016), by Jim Jarmusch, one of its most distilled expressions. Writing does not appear as a profession nor as a public ambition, but as a daily exercise in presence. Paterson is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey. He drives the same streets, listens to fragments of overheard conversations, observes the world at its smallest scale. And he writes. He writes before work, writes during his lunch break, writes at night. He does not publish, does not display, does not perform. He writes because writing is the way he has found to inhabit reality attentively.
This ethics of attention has a precise root: William Carlos Williams. The modernist poet lived and practiced medicine in the city of Paterson and wrote the long poem Paterson, in which he sought to make the city itself a poetic organism composed of voices, flows, and concrete matter. His implicit maxim — “no ideas but in things” — runs through the film as an invisible principle. No idea that does not arise from things. No abstraction detached from experience.
Paterson writes about a box of matches, a glass of beer, Laura’s hair, the water flowing through the Great Falls. Poetry is not transcendence; it is concentration. Not escape, but fidelity to what stands before the eyes. Like Williams, he maintains an “ordinary” life, writes between tasks, remains rooted in his territory. Greatness lies not in expansion, but in precision.
The poems we hear in the film were written by Ron Padgett, yet they clearly dialogue with this tradition: clear language, direct imagery, restrained lyricism. The film does not adapt the poem Paterson; it embodies its method. Man, city, and language mirror one another in a subtle play of duplications. Paterson lives in Paterson and writes Paterson. The name becomes structure.
As the workshop proposes, writing is not about proving something to the world, but about constructing an inhabitable interior place. Paterson does not seek glory or validation. He seeks rightness. And in that rightness he finds meaning. The repeated gesture of writing becomes a silent ritual — a way of thinking and, at the same time, of existing.
All Cinema PROSA films will be shown on an illuminated pixel (65’’ QLED screen) in a room with a maximum capacity of 24 spectators.
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