May 7-8, 2020
Porto, Portugal
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
For more information and submissions please contact:
springseminar.arts@porto.ucp.pt.
Deadline: 1 February, 2020
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