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Portuguese film: colony; postcolony; memory

By November 21, 2015October 10th, 2024No Comments2 min read

Thursday, 14 January and Friday, 15 January 2016

University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Programme below and available here:
http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/19387/Portuguese+Film%3A+Colony%2C+Postcolony%2C+Memory

Thursday, 14 January 2016, Room 104 (first floor)

16.00 Film Screening: Yvone Kane (Margarida Cardoso, 2014)

18.00 Q & A with Margarida Cardoso chaired by Sally Faulkner and Mariana
Liz; drinks reception

Friday, 15 January 2016, Room 243 (second floor)

09.50 Welcome and Introduction by Sally Faulkner and Mariana Liz

10.00 Panel 1: Representations of (Anti-)Colonialism

Maria do Carmo Piçarra (Minho / Lisbon / ISCTE-UL): ?Ultramarine blues:
?image-flashes? of Portuguese (anti-)colonialism?

Ros Gray (Goldsmiths, London): ?To unhinge a look, a gesture, a sign:
unleashing the revolutionary use-value of Portugal?s colonial film?

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (Warwick): ?Out of the Labyrinth? Depois do
Adeus as Potentially Productive Nostalgia?

11.30 Coffee

12.00 Panel 2: The Cinema of Miguel Gomes

Lúcia Nagib (Reading): ?Colonialism as Fantastic Realism in Tabu?

Hilary Owen (Manchester): ?Filming Ethnographic Portugal – Miguel Gomes
and the Last Taboo?

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Panel 3: The Cinema of Margarida Cardoso

Antonio da Silva (Kent): ?Rebuilding colonial memory through archive in
the work of two Portuguese women filmmakers: Margarida Cardoso and
Filipa César?

Sally Faulkner and Ana Martins (Exeter): ?Intermedial Dialogue in The
Murmuring Coast (Lídia Jorge 1988 / Margarida Cardoso 2004): Novel;
Photography; Film?

Mark Sabine (Nottingham): ?The Celluloid War: Images in conflict in the
cinema of Margarida Cardoso?

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Roundtable discussion chaired by Margarida Cardoso

Attendance is free, but advance registration is required. To register
please email s.faulkner@exeter.ac.uk <mailto:s.faulkner@exeter.ac.uk> by
6 January 2016 or register online at
http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/19387/Portuguese+Film%3A+Colony%2C+Postcolony%2C+Memory

Event organised by Sally Faulker (Exeter) and Mariana Liz (Leeds).

Supported by the IMLR, Instituto Camões, The Leverhulme Trust,
University of Exeter and University of Leeds.