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]