Publication
Mirian Tavares and Ana Isabel Soares publish essays in the book ‘Um Olhar Português — Cinema e Natureza no Século XXI’
The book ‘Um Olhar Português — Cinema e Natureza no Século XXI’ [A Portuguese Look — Cinema and Nature in the 21st Century], organised by Filipa Rosário and José Duarte, received two essays written by CIAC researchers, ‘Alentejo, Alentejo (Sérgio Tréfaut, 2014)’, by Mirian Tavares, and ‘Lisbon Revisited (Edgar Pêra, 2014)’, by Ana Isabel Soares.
“How does contemporary Portuguese cinema represent nature? What motifs from the natural world animate Portuguese films released since 2000? What narrative, conceptual and aesthetic forces does our recent cinema find in this independent, continuous and simultaneous manifestation of life, that is, of its physical phenomena and beings?”
These were the questions that motivated the organisation of this volume, which takes a panoramic look at more than forty films made by Portuguese filmmakers in the 21st century, thus proposing a mapping of recent Portuguese cinema in the light of the idea of (physical) nature as a function of culture.
The book is on sale on the publisher’s website.
Esta publicação também está disponível em: Portuguese (Portugal)