Marta Mendes
Marta Mendes was born in Louvain, Belgium, in 1974 and lives in Lisbon. She has been a researcher and lecturer at ESTC since 2002, where she is an Adjunct Professor. She has a degree (Pre-Bologna, 2001) in Philosophy from Universidade NOVA FCSH, with a monograph in the specialization area of Aesthetics, supervised by Professor José Gil, entitled “The Force of Sensation”. In 2016, she received her PhD in Philosophy – Specialty of Aesthetics, also from NOVA FCSH, with a doctoral thesis on the interstices of the image in thought and cinema, entitled “Átrios da Imagem: Cinema e Pensamento”, under the supervision of Professors Maria Filomena Molder and José Bogalheiro.
Research Interests
She has dedicated her research activity mainly to teaching, developing her themes in the context of the intersection between cinema and thought, with a particular focus on the themes of image, perception and experience, time and memory, inherent to the intersections between cinema, aesthetics and ethics and the countless narrative configurations that cinema invents in order to resist. She has participated in a number of national and international conferences as a speaker, with papers such as “Capturing the real: Víctor Erice’s pendulum”, Gilles Deleuze’s diagrammatic thinking: thinking about forces in Hong Sang-Soo’s cinema”, “Seeing or looking for paradise. Passion and Scénario du Film Passion, JL Godard”, “Cinema and ‘the real more real than the real’. Approximations between Stanley Cavell and Virginia Woolf, with published articles such as “Literality: understanding fiction as real experience. Gilles Deleuze and Jean Rouch” [Ebook Cartografia das Fronteiras da Narrativa Audiovisual, Universidade Católica do Porto, 2017] and “Fragmento: esboços para uma configuração do conceito – Literatura e Cinema”, published in: Revista Verónica.
She is currently resuming her research activities as an integrated researcher at CIAC.
At ESTC, she has been responsible for teaching the courses in Screenwriting and Cinematographic Studies in Visual and Sound Forms, Author Cinematographies (authors such as Theo Angelopoulos and Jean-Luc Godard), Time and Memory in Contemporary Cinema, as well as the courses in Theories of Narrative I and II, Typologies of Narrative I, Aesthetics II and Aesthetics in Cinema I, which she is still responsible for today. She also teaches on the Master’s Degree in Project Development and is responsible for teaching the Topics in Film Studies course on the Doctorate in Arts (Performing Arts and the Moving Image) created jointly between the University of Lisbon and the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon.
She is the coordinator of the Screenwriting and Studies Areas of ESTC’s Film Department.
She is President of ESTC’s Technical-Scientific Council and President of the Technical-Scientific Committee of ESTC’s Film Department.
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