Film, Audiovisual and Contemporary Imaginaries

Coord: Mariana Liz

The research subgroup Film, Audiovisual and Contemporary Imaginaries is devoted to the study of film and the audiovisual, as well as other forms of contemporary moving image production.

Its research adopts a critical approach to the concerns, challenges and configurations that define the contemporary era, including migration, colonial continuities, racialization, anticolonial struggles, nationalism, gender, nature and ecology. It adopts an intersectional perspective and takes into account audiovisual discourses and practices emerging in transnational contexts, simultaneously considering the specific conditions that structure the production of moving images in today’s global society.

Objectives
 

• To develop critical and methodological tools for a situated aesthetics that, combining formal analysis with a historical and political approach, seeks to understand film and audiovisual practices in precise cultural contexts and examine the contextual and material conditions that allow for the production of moving images and sounds;
• To develop an understanding of cinema and contemporary audiovisual media in light of multiple configurations and contexts (migration, colonial continuities, racialization, anticolonial struggles, nationalism, gender, nature and ecology) while examining the transformations taking place in society led by the production of moving images and sounds in the new digital world;
• To ensure the articulation between academic research and the wider society through the organization of cultural activities targeted at the general public;
• To reflect about the study, teaching and learning practices regarding film language and media history and promote initiatives that encourage it in the Portuguese society.

ACTIVITIES

Recent and planned activities

• Liz, Mariana (2024) Coord. Course "O 25 de Abril Através do Cinema"
• Rosário, Filipa (2023) Org. "Interseccionalidade e Natureza no Cinema Português: Aula Aberta com dois filmes de Luciana Fina", 7 December
• Liz, Mariana (2023) Moderator of the round-table Cinemas do meu país: história, arte e associativismo de mulheres em Portugal”, 1º Fórum MUTIM, Goethe Institut, Lisboa, 23 November;
• Membros do cluster (2023) Programming of the Ciclo de cinema "Transformações", November;
• Liz, Mariana (2023) “Realizadoras Portuguesas. Cinema no Feminino na Era Contemporânea”, Encontros da Biblioteca Gulbenkian, Paris, 19 October.

Previous activities

• Liz, Mariana (2023) Sub-commissioner ‘Novos Encontros do Cinema Português: Produção’, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Cineclube do Porto e Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 6-7 June; 
• Liz, Mariana (2023) Org. ‘Imagens como cicatrizes: realizadoras ibéricas e o arquivo colonial’, Seminários CITCOM, com Anna Fonoll Tassier, doutoranda visitante da Universidade Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Espanha, no Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 1 June;
• Duarte, José & Liz, Mariana (2023) Orgs. ‘Transnational Cinema: Notes on a Developing Field of Study’, Conferência da Professora Deborah Shaw (University of Portsmouth), Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 17 May;
• Liz, Mariana & Owen, Hilary (2023) Orgs. ‘Apresentação, por Lídia Jorge, do livro Realizadoras Portuguesas: Cinema no Feminino na Era Contemporânea (Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais), Feira do Livro de Lisboa, 28 May;
• Rosário, Filipa (2023), Apresentação do filme de M. Kassowitz La Haine (1995), International Film Festival IndieLisboa/ 5L Festival, Sala Fernando Lopes, 5 May;
• Liz, Mariana (2023) Moderator of the Training session ‘Vamos Falar sobre Cinema? – TAKE |V| – A Toca do Lobo, de Catarina Mourão’, Plano Nacional de Cinema, 29 March;
• Liz, Mariana (2023) Moderator of the round-table ‘O Cinema e a Educação’, 1º Encontro Sobre Cinema Infantil, organizado pelo PLAY: Festival Internacional de Cinema Infantil, Cinema São Jorge, Lisboa, 2-3 March;.

   

1. Benis, Rita & Dias Branco, Sérgio (eds) (forthcoming). Movement as Immobility: Essays on Film and Christianity. London: Routledge.
2. Camacho, Sandra, Rosário, Filipa & Morais, Ana Bela (eds) (forthcoming). Archive and 'Lusophone' Film. Ribeirão: Húmus.
3. Cordero Hoyo, Elena (2023). ‘Entre la mofa y la cosificación: representación del fútbol femenino en el NO-DO y las comedias de los años setenta’, L'Atalante 37, forthcoming.
4. Liz, Mariana (2023) ‘Women in Iberian Filmic Culture: book review’,International Journal of Iberian Studies 36:2, forthcoming.
5. Benis, Rita (2023) ‘Acts of Reading: the demands on screenplay reading’,The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies, eds. Rosamund Davies, Paolo Russo & Claus Tieber. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Cham/Springer.
6. Liz, Mariana & Owen, Hilary (eds) (2023). Realizadoras Portuguesas: Cinema no Feminino na Era Contemporânea. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.
7. Duarte, José & Rosário, Filipa (eds) (2022). The Films of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
8. Liz, Mariana (2022). "Vitalina’s (in)visibility: contemporary Portugal and the cinema of human mobility", Transnational Screens 13:1, pp. 1-15.
9. Morais, Ana Bela, Marques, Bruno & Araújo Branco, Isabel (eds) (2022). Dossier “Imagens Interditas: censura e criação artística no espaço ibérico contemporâneo”, Diálogos, Universidade Estadual do Maringá / Brasil, 26 (1): 1-176. Com uma Introdução comentada e um artigo em português e inglês: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/Dialogos/issue/current
10. Cordero-Hoyo, Elena (2021). "Os primórdios do cinema (1895-1920)". In Nelson Araújo (ed),  História do Cinema. Lisboa: Edições 70, pp. 19-41.

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E-mail: mliz@letras.ulisboa.pt