Revolution Hunter, Metaphor or Sadness Turned Upside Down, Yama No Anata – Beyond the Mountains
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Location
Modern Collection – Multi Use RoomR. Dr. Nicolau Bettencourt, Lisbon
Talk with the Directors 20:15 (in Portuguese only)
Revolution Hunter, by Margarida Rêgo
Portugal, 2016, 11’
Original language: Portuguese
Subtitles in English and Portuguese
Translation in Portuguese Sign Language (LGP)
Audiodescription (Portuguese only)
Copy provided by:Portugal Film – International Film Agency
Margarida Rêgo was supported to participate in the Advanced Training Program Expanded Feature: European Art Film Strategies, in 2016, with the film project The invention of the body (in production) by the Gulbenkian Programme of Portuguese Language and Culture/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Synopsis
It all began with a photo taken in 1974, shortly after the Portuguese revolution went out on the streets. The Director tries to step into that picture looking for a country, as someone who wants to enter into a time unexperienced and understand what it means to be part of a revolution or what it means to fight for a country. A Revolution Hunter is a meeting between two countries, two fights and two people seeking the transformation of a country. It tries to transform and redraw on a past, as if it could take life from it.
Margarida Rêgo (Born 1986) studied at the Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts. Her first short film The Revolution Hunter was created during her master's degree at the Royal College of Art in London. She is co-founder of the Ilhas Graphic Design Studio.
Metaphor or Sadness Turned Upside Down, by Catarina Vasconcelos
Portugal, 2014, 30’
Original language: Portuguese
Subtitles in English and Portuguese
Copy provided by Catarina Vasconcelos
Synopsis
When he turned 27, a boy faced the sadness within him. Admitting the urgency to turn his sadness inside out, he wrote to his sister. An exchange of letters between a brother and a sister on the anniversary of their mother’s death takes them on a journey into the past to understand the time in which their mother lived and what Portugal was like in the 1970s, when a revolution happened – the 1974 Revolution of the Carnations, which happened when their mother was still young. The film brings together the story of a family and the history of a country, it is a demand for something that cannot be lost. Metáfora ou a Tristeza Virada do Avesso (Metaphor or Sadness Turned Upside Down) is a fight against oblivion.
Catarina Vasconcelos (Lisbon, 1986) has a degree in Communication Design from the Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts (University of Lisbon). She took a master's degree at the Royal College of Art in London and during which she developed the short film Metáfora ou a tristeza virada do avesso, winner of the Prize for Best Short Film at the Cinema du Réel (2014).
Supported for production in Cinema, in 2015, to develop the film project Amores Distantes e Pátrias Imaginárias (in production) by the Gulbenkian Portuguese Language and Culture Program/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Yama No Anata – Beyond the Mountains, by Aya Koretzky
Portugal, 2011, 60’
Original language: Japonese
Subtitles in English and Portuguese
Copy provided by: Nitrato Filmes
Synopsis
A journey into the landscapes of the Mondego where the Director used to live with her parents as a child, after leaving Tokyo, her birth city. After the reading of letters of friends and family who stayed in Japan, she reflects upon the option of coming to Portugal and recalls the past, “to retain the fading memory”.
Aya Koretzky (Born 1983, Tokyo) lives and works between Lisbon and Paris. She graduated in painting (Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, 2006). Holds a master's degree in Cinema (Lisbon Theatre and Cinema School, 2011) and a master's degree in Cinema (Sorbonne Nouvelle de Paris University, 2012). She took an Experimental Film Workshop on 16 mm (ETNA, Paris, 2012). Since 2006, she works in fiction films and documentaries.
She was supported for film production, in 2014, to develop the film project Around the world when you were 30, (in post-production) by the Gulbenkian Portuguese Language and Culture Programme /Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
(2011) Yama no Anata - Beyond the Mountains
(2010) Nocturnos (documentary)
(2006) Terror Japonês/Japonese Terror (documentary) co-directed and co-produced with Miguel Clara Vasconcelos
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
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