UTOPIA FILM FESTIVAL in partnership with CILAVS proudly presents

a special screening of new Portuguese audiovisual essays (12A*) presented by Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies Catherine Grant

Exploring the possibilities of the audiovisual essay, this group of films expresses a string of very personal views on film history. Some of these survey while others celebrate the filmic roles of intimacy, work, politics, the female gaze, dance, comedy, fear and the death of cinema itself. They take risks while blending different materials or trying to say something very personal through film. An example of creative and engaged film writing, the product of a dynamic film lab at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. All works made under the tutorship of lecturer and film critic Luís Mendonça at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

Delphine Aprisionada

Portugal 2017 Dir. Ricardo Pinto de Magalhães

Jacarépaguá

Portugal 2017 Dir. Maria Ganem

We All Die as A Work in Progress" (2017) de João Costa

Portugal 2017 Dir. João Costa

Young Mr. Lincoln por Eisenstein

Portugal 2017 Dir. Guilherme Rodriguez

O cinema que vê

Portugal 2016 Dir. Beatriz Saraiva

The (Im)perfect Human

Portugal 2016 Dir. Ana Margarida Gil

Swans With Shoes

Portugal 2016 Dir. Magda Caetano de Melo

Hong Sang-soo: Sorry for Smoking

Portugal 2016 Dir. Nuno Gonçalves

O Pulo do Lobo

Portugal 2016 Dir. Tamara González

* Locally Classified. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

CATHERINE GRANT Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, has published widely on theories and practices of film authorship, adaptation and intertextuality, and has edited important collections of work on world cinema, Latin American cinema, digital film and media studies, and the audiovisual essay.