CINEMANDO: THE SEA IS THE EARTH. O MAR É A TERRA. Session 2.
<The texture on the margins>
In collaboration with the Escola Superior de Artes e Design esad.pt, the PT semester proudly presents this series of short films produced by students of ESAD: the sea is the land.
<The authors will be present and happy to respond to your questions.>
"The Sea is the Earth is the name we found for this programme that celebrates the culture and the art made in Portugal, at Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, of Politécnico de Leiria, during the semester of the Portuguese presidency of the European Union.
If we speak of Sea, in the month of the New European Bauhaus, we necessarily speak of the Earth we don't inhabit alone.
Let's imagine that the Sea was really out of sight, that the maritime horizon was forever, sustained by our explorer's, navigator's, artist's or visionary's look, or another one than that of a surveyor - the sea didn't end and the Earth was Sea. Such an Earth, for the surveyor, would be flat and, as in Edwin Abott's Flatland, or E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, would require exploration. This programme brings many seas, with many horizons and even no horizons. The Earth is not flat, it is a blue thing in space that we care about, it is liquid on the outside - and on the inside?
The Earth is also dirt, leftover from magma, transformed into stone, mud, Sea and life.
This programme is about transformations from young students into adult students, with a look at life on Earth and a very serious concern for the present and for life in the future.
Final note: we love surveyors, but understand that in this context it is a fitting metaphor." ESAD
Programme on 4th May:
Moderation: Susana Nascimento, ESAD
Short films:
Ínsula [Island] by Luana Portella, 2018
A sober and intimate film, which shows us the confinement as a place to reflect on freedom. Luana Portella follows the artistic process of Catarina Fragueiro, a young artist and student of Fine Arts who reflects on the meanings that transform the world while guiding us through the margins of her work in the studio.
Miradouro [Belvedere] by Carlota Flor, 2018
Journey of relentless discovery of the body-place. The film begins with the dirty camera and the muffled sound of a car engine that turns into a voice and sound of the sea. We discover ourselves in the other's feet walk to the sea, and return hanging on the other's body. As body on camera, we feel the world very close, as rough texture, sensual and attached to the other’s body, or ours?. The film talks about a place-body and the site it creates through occupation. From the viewer body we observe the others’.
Bildvisningen by Nuno Braumann, 2018
Silent film about time or the deferment between landscapes.
De gente se fez história [History is made of people] by Inês Vila Cova, 2017
Documentary film about the life at the Caxinas community, starting from family accounts. Resorting to the non-linear crossing of recorded memories, Inês Vila Flor adds another texture to the narrative of this place transformed by time. The image of the wrapped net or the rope in the museum, illustrates the unity that is constituted by so many people and so many stories used to death. In Caxinas, Easter has a deep meaning. History of what the image and the time can do to a body-camera in the hand.
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Ínsula, de Luana Portella, 2018
Filme sóbrio e íntimo, que nos mostra o confinamento como lugar de reflexão sobre a liberdade. Luana Portella acompanha o processo artístico de Catarina Fragueiro, jovem artista e estudante de Artes Plásticas que reflete sobre os significados que transformam o mundo enquanto nos guia pelas margens do seu trabalho no atelier.
Miradouro, Carlota Flor, 2018
Viagem de descoberta implacável do corpo lugar. O filme começa com a câmara suja e o som abafado do motor de um carro que se transforma em voz e som de mar. Descobrimos que nós nos pés do outro caminhamos para o mar e regressamos pendurados no corpo do outro. Nós como corpo na câmara sentimos o mundo muito próximo, como textura áspera, sensual e preso ao corpo. O filme fala sobre um corpo lugar e sobre o lugar que ocupa. Do corpo miradouro observamos os outros.
BILDVISNINGEN, Nuno Braumann, 2018
Filme silencioso sobre o tempo ou a demora entre paisagens.
De Gente Se Fez História, Inês Vila Cova, 2017
Filme documentário sobre a vida em terra da comunidade das Caxinas, partindo de relatos familiares. Recorrendo ao cruzamento não linear de memórias gravadas, Inês Vila Flor acrescenta outra textura à narrativa deste lugar transformado pelo tempo. A imagem da rede embrulhada ou da corda no museu, ilustra a unidade que se constitui por tantas pessoas e tantas histórias habituadas à morte. Nas Caxinas, a Páscoa tem um significado profundo. História do que a imagem e o tempo podem fazer a uma câmara-corpo na mão.
