Event Details
Tuesday, 17th June
.. Sunday, 22nd June
Past Dates Listing
Tuesday, 17th June
to Sunday, 22nd June
Venue:
APORDOC
(Portugal)
(website)
Address: Portuguese Documentary Association, Rua dos Bacalhoeiros 125, 4º, 1100-068 LISBOAPhone: (+351) 21 887 1639Email: apordoc@sapo.pt
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Doc's Kingdom 2008
Part of the
Doc's Kingdom
festival.
Event Categories
Conference/ Forum
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Festival events
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Seminar/ Workshop
Summary
The annual documentary seminar's focus for 2008 is Landscape, the work of time
Full description
Registrations until 1st June
Having called the attention to the use of the word at the previous seminar, we now propose the theme of landscape as the general starting point for this year’s programme and debates. Landscape as one of the possible key elements to analyse the whole movement of modern cinema and some of its present-day radical experiences. Landscape as crossroads of different contemporary arts – and thus as a reminder of the potential avant-garde role that, once and again, can be played by the documentary practice. Landscape as a privileged ground to question and to refine the nature of the moving image – and thus, once more, something we hereby hold up against the cinema of vulgarization, redundancy and saturation of effects. Landscape because landscape is in itself “look”, “space”, “time”. Landscape as passageway, either between different times or different ways of seeing – the place that undergoes change and the place where our way of seeing changes. Landscape, also, as the ground for different levels of narration. Landscape and labour; landscape and memory, landscape and History. Finally, and precisely against a possible bucolic trend, landscape as the land of impatience, or tension between what we see and what underlies it, between what shows and what hides, order and chaos, reason and insanity.
The program includes a journey along very different films and personal worlds. Once again, the theme will help us to underline the variations, and it will be taken as a mere starting point, not a limitation to the free course of the debates. Soon we will announce who will be present in Serpa and how the debates will be organized. Some changes will be introduced in regard to what has been done in previous editions.