Our world is surrounded by beautiful images and each image tells a story. Some stories impact us greatly as they are told from a different perspective with threads of that, showcasing how we are connected to an issue. Real stories with great images stand out for every film lover. Goans who enjoy Portuguese films will have the opportunity to learn more about the film culture through interactions, conversations at the film screenings. As a part of Sensorium, on the theme - ‘The End is Only the Beginning’, Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts in association with Centro de Língua Portuguesa-Camões, IP will host ‘From Images of a Time to the Time of Images’ - a series of Portuguese film screenings curated by Portuguese filmmaker Alexandra Côrte-Real de Almeida. The film screenings will be held at Sunaparanta Amphitheatre, Panjim on February 27 and 28, 2018 from 6pm onwards.
Alexandra Côrte-Real de Almeida, was a student of Lisbon Theatre
and Film School in Portugal where she received a degree in directing and
editing. Besides directing several short films and documentaries, she has
worked in several film festivals in production, audiovisual and programming. In
2017, she designed a video for the opera ‘Outra Margem’ composed by Nuno da
Rocha and directed by Pedro Ribeiro in Enoa Lab in Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation. Alexandra is currently the concert
manager of the Symphonic Orchestra in Casa da Musica - Porto.
On February 27, Alexandra will present an introduction to Manoel
de Oliveira followed by the screening of his film, ‘Douro, Faina Fluvial’,
(Labor on the Douro River), a 1931 Portuguese documentary short film. It was
the first film directed by Manoel de Oliveira and is a portrait of his hometown
of Porto and the labor and industry that takes place along the city’s main
river, the Douro River. It is a choral poem, there are no characters and only
one dramatic moment. The next film will be the premiere of ‘Acaso’ by Madalena
Fragoso and Margarida Meneses.
On February 28, Alexandra Côrte-Real will be in conversation
with Arvind Sivakumaran on the theme, ‘From Images of a Time to the Time of
Images’ followed by screenings of the short film, ‘The Edge of the World’ by
Kate Saragaço Gomes, ‘Will Free’ –by Fátima Dinis, ‘Come to me’ by Marta Reis
Andrade, ‘Vigilia’ by Ana Mariz and ‘Mirage my bros’ by Diogo Baldaia.
‘The Edge of the World’ is a 2016 experimental documentary
showcasing the repeating of an old tradition which becomes an unexpected visit
to hidden pleasures. The film was presented at several festivals and won the
award at the DOC Lisboa Film Festival, one of the most important documentary
festivals in Portugal.
‘Will Free’ is a kind of visual essay made with YouTube videos
that build an abstract narrative about the possibilities of the new mediums of
images. This film experiments a possible logical connection yet fictional of
what the internet brings us. ‘Come to me’ is a short animation about becoming a
woman. It was presented at several film festivals.
‘Vigilia’
is about a young man from Timor who just started Catholic seminary to become a
priest in a convent in Braga - Portugal. It’s a documentary about the search
for faith and adaptation to a new world. ‘Mirage My Bros’, is three tales about
young people who give a perspective on the idea of looking to the future and
dreaming and are connected by an energetic power given by the situations. The
film was screened at the Roterdam Film Festival 2018.