"My main concern with this book is to do what Duchamp did with art: to reinvent and deconstruct a conformed vision in relation to objects, that is, to discover new ways of seeing and interpreting. The idea of publishing this book starts with that, that is, with the central idea of seeing what is not immediately seen or given, of trying to see beyond the gaze. Thus, the ways of seeing films are also the continuous work of these different ways of looking (to what can be seen beyond images) that I have been building over the years, through aesthetics, philosophy, theory of art and other disciplines. However, this does not mean that this ways of looking at films is the most valid, the most correct or even the most perfect; it is just another way of seeing them (through philosophical eyes), decoding them, interpreting them, in short, to be an active beholder."

Coleção Filosófica eQVODLIBET 9 (https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/colecoes_eqvodlibet)