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The new issue of ROTURA magazine on ‘Live Fiction’ is now available


The latest issue of CIAC’s ROTURA — Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes (vol.2, no.4) is now available online. Under the title ‘Living Fiction’, this issue, which was edited and directed by CIAC coordinator Mirian Tavares, together with researchers Patrícia Dourado and Francisco Silva Cavalcante Jr, dedicated a dossier to fictional thinking and the urgency of reflecting on the living matter of fiction.

In the edition’s preface, ‘Proposals for a Living Fiction’, the editors propose adding to the arguments of reason the careful observation of experiences, in close dialogue with studies of creative processes.

In the article ‘The silhouette of a butterfly against the empty screen: traces of modernity in the experience of narrating’, Leonardo Moura Mateus starts from autobiographical reflections to reflect on the survival spaces of narrative in the context of life, the short story and cinema. Crossing the thought of Walter Benjamin, Ricardo Piglia and Silviano Santiago, and the works of Nikolai Leskov, Edilberto Coutinho, and Eduardo Coutinho, a thought is constructed about the ‘making’ of the gesture of narrating, and the possible places where such gestures continue to be active in the contemporary world.

The text ‘A sala de roteiro no Brasil: um modo híbrido de criação audiovisual — a série o Rei da TV’ (The script room in Brazil: a hybrid mode of audiovisual creation — the series The King of TV), by Samir Cheida, presents a reflection on the creation of scripts, with the support of Cecília Salles’ theories of the creative process, through an analysis of the series The King of TV, produced by Gullane Filmes and shown on Star Plus. And ‘Total cinematic musiké: Patrizia Vicinelli’s video-poematic experience’, by researcher Marzia D’Amico, explores the history of the ancient Greek concept of music and the arts.

In the article ‘Process report of Bruno Grilo’s work in a group exhibition at CASA-MUSEU Abel Salazar with the title A apologia da crise (do desconforto e do diálogo como paradoxo)’, the CIAC collaborator reports on the creative and exhibition process of his artistic work, which brings together a set of works developed in 2019 for the group exhibition at Casa-Museu Abel Salazar, as part of his PhD in Fine Arts. ‘Intertwined Imaginaries of Brazil and Portugal in a visual performance by the artist Edicleison de Freitas Cardoso: Uma crónica sobre as múmias’, by Andre Feitosa de Sousa, transposes images and sensations referred to by an artistic experience in 2024 into the current dimension of the text and its possible reflexivity, based on a work conducted in the public space of Coimbra (Portugal), by the artist Edicleison de Freitas and the participation of third-party passers-by. ‘Sleepless nights’, by Pauline Le Pichon, illustrates the disturbing scenarios that prevent her from sleeping at night. Narratives so disturbing and realistic that they become suffocating for the author.

‘On the subject of another day’s lecture – notes on a cook-actor and cinema as impressionist art’ is an interview given by filmmaker Leonardo Mouramateus and actor Mauro Soares to researchers Patrícia Dourado and Mirian Tavares, on the subject of the lecture “Materialities of the Word in Processes of Creation”, held on 16 May 2023 in Faro, Algarve, as part of the Transversal Materialities of Creation subject of the Master’s Degree in Processes of Creation at the University of the Algarve. The interview was support material for the researchers, whose questions were sent out after the lecture as a means of having some material record of some points raised by the artists during the lecture, and to which they kindly responded. The answers, which were important for the development of other work by the researchers, are shared here with the scientific community interested in studying the archives of creation and the nuances of the fictional gesture, especially of these two artists – but not only – as an invitation for future studies. Among the points covered are the word as matter and tool for creation; the laboratory-kitchen of actor-chemist-cook Mauro Soares, some childhood memories; composition with emptiness; cinema as impressionist art for Leonardo Mouramateus, possibilities for a living fiction and the actor as a being in the face of things.

The ‘Live Fiction’ dossier also includes seven articles in the Varia section and an essay: ‘Social appeals in television adverts: the Christmas messages of Portuguese brands’ by Sónia Silva and Fábio Ribeiro; ‘Advergaming in advertising communication: case Study pepsiman and ias Brand awareness strategy’ by Alex Mullo López, Jarelis Peñaherrera Romero and Patricia de Casas Moreno; “Cinema section of the orfeão: the awakening of film culture in Covilhã and its likins with Salamanca” by Manuel Herrería Bolado; ’Romy Schneider in Portugal: Transactional cinema and censorship in the Marcelist period (1968-1974)’ by Jorge Carrega and Ana Bela Morais; “Digital image: The role of apparatus, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in visual Communication in the digital age” by Wilson Caldeira and José Simões; ’Literatures of contagion: The Camusian legacy‘ by Soumia Mejtia; “Contemporary female voices: the case study of our uniform, by Yegane Moghaddam” by Cátia Peres and Cynthia Levitan; “In front of the mirror: the ”cinema-situation’ according to Roland Barthes’ by Maria João Viegas.

CIAC have a call for papers for the special issue ‘Alfamed – Digital Media, Rights and Citizenship: Challenges for Media Education’, until 31 January 2025.


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