From NY With Love, Day 32, by André Valentim Almeida
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Date
- / Cancelled / Sold out
Location
Modern Collection – Multi Use RoomR. Dr. Nicolau Bettencourt, Lisbon
From NY With Love, by André Valentim Almeida,
Portugal, EUA, 2012, 61’
Original language: English
Subtitles in English and Portuguese
Translation in Portuguese Sign Language (LGP)
Talk with the director 21:00 (in Portuguese only)
Copy provided by: André Valentim Almeida
Support for International Circulation, in 2013, toparticipate in the North Side Festival in Brooklyn, New York, by the Portuguese Language and Culture Program/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Synopsis
Wandering through moving images taken with a tourist camera juxtaposed with classic movies, From New York with Love is an essay on a foreigner’s evolving relation with his host country.
Dia 32, by André Valentim Almeida
Portugal, 2017, 85’
Original language: Portuguese
Subtitles in English and Portuguese
Copy provided by: André Valentim Almeida
Support for film production, in 2017, for sound and colour editing by the Portuguese Language and Culture Programme/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Synopsis
Faced with the possibility of the end, the Director decides to create an ark of images – iconic and trivial, personal and public- addressed at an intelligent future species which will survive ours, and starts an exploration of places, images and ideas.
André Valentim Almeida (born 1977)
is a Portuguese filmmaker and documentary editor. He taught media production at the University of Porto and Aveiro and was the scientific coordinator of a major video training program at the newsroom of the Portuguese news agency. He was part of the first yearlong collaborative documentary program at the UnionDocs (Brooklyn, NY) where he was then the Collaborative Studio Director.His work has been screened at several national and international film festivals.
He is a member of the Board of Director of the [Portuguese] Association for Documentary Films (APORDOC). His films were exhibited at several national and international festivals. He has worked on film commissions focusing on archives and heritage. He is currently directing the films The Invisible Footballers and Moon.
(2017 ) Day 32
(2013) The Quest of the Schooner Creoula
(2012 ) From New York with Love
(2010 ) Uma na Bravo Outra na Ditadura
(2010 ) New York is a Big Apple
About The Gulbenkian and The Portuguese Cinema III
The intimacy and the country: a desire of a future is the thematic axis of the third edition of the cycle The Gulbenkian and Portuguese Cinema. This year’s Edition presents twelve films, six feature films and six short, and is organised in six sessions , on the weekends of November 30 – December 1,2 and December 7,8 and 9, curated by Francisco Valente (critic and film programmer currently working at Cinemateca Portuguesa)
This cycle presents films that result from the last tem years of support by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, for the production and the international circulation of the Portuguese contemporary cinema.
Next Sessions
Fri, 7 december – 18:30
Revolution Hunter, by Margarida Rêgo
Metaphor or Sadness Turned Upside Down, by Catarina Vasconcelos
Yama No Anata – Beyond the Mountains, by Aya Koretzky
Sat, 8 december – 18:30
The new Testament of Jesus Christ according to John, by Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel
Sun, 9 december – 18:30
Damned Summer, by Pedro Cabeleira