Thursday 7 February 2013

Screening

RUINAS/RUINS
Screening + Q&A
Friday 1 March 2013, 6pm
Hitchcock Cinema (Arts One G.19)
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS

As part of the Research Seminar on ‘Fantasy vs. Reality in Contemporary Portuguese Cinema’, QMUL will be screening the documentary film Ruinas/Ruins (Manuel Mozos, Portugal, 2009; with English subtitles).

Manuel Mozos was born in Lisbon in 1959 and has been making films since the 1980s. A graduate from the National School of Theatre and Drama, he has worked as an editor and as an actor in films by directors such as Miguel Gomes. A retrospective of his work was presented in the 2012 edition of the Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival). Ruins is his 10th film, “a wonderful entwinement of image and language about the decay and disappearance of everyday architecture in his home country”, as described by the Austrian initiative (http://www.viennale.at/en/series/focus-manuel-mozos)

We are delighted to announce the director will be in London to introduce his film. After the screening, Manuel Mozos will be joined by Kieron Corless (Sight and Sound), who will lead a Q&A session.


Saturday 2 February 2013

Provisional Programme


Rooms and Times tbc; subject to changes.


Friday, 1 March 2013

14.00-15.00 Registration

15.00-17.00 Session 1: Portuguese auteurs and national identity
·       Paulo Viveiros (Lusófona) - The Portuguese film animation in the 21st century. The case of José Miguel Ribeiro.
·       Daniel Ribas (Bragança/Aveiro) - The Splendor of Portugal: identity and violence in João Canijo
·       Paulo Cunha (Coimbra) - Our beloved Portugal: identity, memory and fantasy in Miguel Gomes
·       Ana Isabel Soares (Algarve) - The Cine-Portugal of Edgar Pêra

18.00-20.00 Screening: Ruínas/Ruins (Manuel Mozos, 2009) – followed by Q&A with the director and Kieron Corless


Saturday, 2 March 2013

10.00-11.30 Session 2: Landscape and Cinema
·       Filipe Costa Luz (Lusófona) - Boundaries beyond space and sea: animated Portuguese landscapes
·       Filipa Rosário (Lisboa) - Landscape and Space in Zéfiro
·       Ana Francisca de Azevedo (Lisboa) - Screening the postcolonial encounter: landscapes of suture and politics of strangeness in contemporary Portuguese cinema

11.45-13.15 Session 3: Melancholy in Portuguese Film
·       Possidónio Cachapa (Lusófona) - The Melancholic Tendency For A Metaphorical Approach In Portuguese Cinema
·       Rita Benis (Lisboa) - Fantastic vs. documental: an ‘air de famille’ in Manoel de Oliveira’s The Strange Case of Angélica
·       Bárbara Barroso (Bragança/Vigo) - ‘Is it snow yet?’ The death of the author, the fantastic characters and the melancholic intertextuality of Snow White

13.15-14.15 Lunch Break

14.15-15.15 Session 4: Postcolonialism and the fantasy of the past
·       Nuno Barradas Jorge (Nottingham) - Life on the Island of the dead: Casa de Lava (1994) and the Portuguese postcolonial imagination
·       Glòria Salvadó-Corretger and Fran Benavente (Pompeu Fabra) - Fantasy as the other side of Reality. Phantom and History in Contemporary Portuguese Cinema

15.30-17.00 Session 5: The limits of cinema – locating realism
·       Vitor de Sousa (Minho) – Fantasia Lusitana by João Canijo: the fictional Portugal vs. the real country and the construction of identity
·       Inês Gil (Lusófona) - The atmosphere of sacredness in Gonçalo Tocha’s É na Terra não é na Lua
·       Edmundo Cordeiro (Lusófona) - Ventura: the stratigraphic character [*video presentation]

Friday 18 January 2013

Registration

Attendance to this event is free. All welcome! If you would like to participate, please register by emailing Mariana Liz at m.liz@qmul.ac.uk

Tuesday 8 January 2013

Accommodation in London

Queen Mary's Mile End campus is located in the East End of London. For a list of hotels near Queen Mary University please visit: http://www.residences.qmul.ac.uk//alternative/hotels/index.html

You may also choose to stay in central London (the campus is easily reached by bus and tube, c. 15 minutes on the Central Line from Holborn). Accommodation options include:

International Hall
http://www.halls.london.ac.uk/visitor/international/Default.aspx

Imperial Hotels
http://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/imperial

Travel and Location

Queen Mary University is located in Mile End, in the East End of London. The University is easily reached by Bus and Tube (Mile End station). For more information please visit: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/howtofindus/mileend/index.html

Saturday 5 January 2013

Submission

Thank you for your submissions for the seminar on 'Fantasy vs. Reality in Contemporary Portuguese Cinema'. You will be notified by Friday 18th January. Happy New Year!