CINEMAS

Cinema and Digital Narratives

CINEMAS (Cinema and Digital Narratives) focuses on the study of film and digital narratives. It is based at AO NORTE Film Society, in coordination with the ID+ IPCA hub. The group provides broader audiences with specialised audiovisual production, aiming at public visibility and knowledge in film through research, community building, conferences, short courses and workshops.

Mission

- to enquire on documentary, new documentary and digital narratives in their aesthetic, ethical, epistemological and political dimensions;
- to engage in research through visual, audiovisual and auditory media and methods;
- to connect with diasporic communities and foster international exchange via audiovisual media.

 

Main Achievements

  • CINEMA

Concerns the organization of a set of ongoing, periodic events, namely the annual Viana International Film Conference in the Viana Film Meetings, and, within the MDOC International Documentary Film Festival, the Offscreen Summer Course and the KinoMeeting; as well as other events of a scientific or artistic nature, for the public understanding of research, community building and project workshops.

  • PRODUCTIONS

Regular publishing of papers and an annual journal, as well as research and collecting of photographic, audiovisual and digital data within the scope of ethnographic and social research projects, within a glocal logic, that expands the regional scope towards communities of external collaborators and diasporic networks. It assures the maintenance and development of the LUGAR DO REAL portal, a platform for the promotion of audiovisual and cultural works, as well as of domestic and historic photography through the FOTOMEMÓRIA section.

  • PHOTOMEMORY
  • Creation and production of research, gathering, collecting, digitizing and archiving activities with photographic and audio-visual registries of a domestic nature or of historical and cultural significance. Maintenance of the online digital archive Lugar do Real (lugardoreal.pt). Realization of activities such as exhibits, public events for discussion and spread of knowledge, Spoken Photographs and other works such as catalogues and books.

Board of coordinators

Keywords

  • Film, Audiovisual