Spring Seminar 2020 · Revolution & Cinema

This year's Sping Seminar, initially planned for May, will take place in the fall, via Zoom.

The confirmed artists and speakers remain: Ângela Ferreira, Ros Gray, Maria do Carmo Piçarra, Isabel Capeloa Gil, June Givanni and Billy Woodberry. The rest of the program will be released soon.

The registration is free. Admissions HERE.

Spring Seminar 2020

Revolution & Cinema

October 15-16th 2020

Confirmed speakers & artists:

Ângela Ferreira

Ros Gray

Maria do Carmo Piçarra

Isabel Capeloa Gil

June Givanni

Billy Woodberry

The fields of cinema and contemporary visual arts have been positioned, in recent years, from the perspective of recovering a historical memory of the colonized peoples. This recovery has been made either by the use of images or by the recovery of films produced by native filmmakers and artists (recovered from the archives), allowing the uncovering of their own imaginary, much built from the revolutions after the departure of the western countries.

The academy itself has produced a series of books and texts that aim to document and think these archives, as well as these national cinemas and artistic objects, giving them a place of visibility, contradicting established canons of cinema and its western worldview. At the Spring Seminar, Professor Ros Gray's book Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution will be launched, which traces a history of the INC (Mozambican film institute) and the cinema made by Mozambican militant filmmakers.

In this seminar, we intend to discuss this recovery, either from this silenced history of a national cinema and/or art of the colonized peoples, or from Western artists and filmmakers who work on this legacy from a postcolonial perspective.

Papers discussing the following topics will be accepted:

Postcolonial legacy in film and visual Arts

Decolonization movements and their relationship with cinema and the visual arts

The third cinema

Decolonization of film and art histories

Collective forms of film and artistic production

The role of political cinema

Activist art or the relationship of art to politics

Other ways of thinking about cinema as a revolutionary artistic form

Full program available here

WEBSITE: HERE

+ info: springseminar.arts@porto.ucp.pt

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