Cavalcanti and the Sea: itinerancy, cross-pollination and cinema's transnational histories
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
This event brings together film scholars, researchers, archivists and curators to discuss the international career of Brazilian filmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti (1897-1982), map out current research about his films and think about how he acted as a cross-pollinator for different national film industries (France, UK, Brasil, East Germany, Italy). In a time of renewed interest in his work, with new books, documentaries and film restorations on the horizon, the event aims to place Cavalcanti’s trajectory within the context of trans/national film
historiography and reflect on how we do collaborative and transnational film history research. In bringing together archivists and curators we will also consider questions of national film preservation and heritage to think through matters of archiving and memorising the work of itinerant filmmakers and/or filmmakers in exile.
The afternoon will start with the screening of excerpts from En Rade (France, 1927), North Sea (UK, 1938) and O Canto do Mar [Song of the Sea] (Brasil, 1952), introduced by André Sirangelo. A roundtable discussion will follow with Cecília Mello (Professor of Film, University of Sao Paulo), André Sirangelo (MA student in Film Programming, Birkbeck), Eleni Liarou (Lecturer in Film and Media, Birkbeck).
We will be joined - via video call - by Prof. Maria Dora Mourão, Emeritus Professor University of Sao Paulo and General Director of Cinemateca Brasileira Brazilian Film Archive, and Prof. Carlos Augusto Calil of the University of Sao Paulo and President of the "Sociedade Amigos da Cinemateca" (TBC). We will also be joined by the British Film Institute’s senior curators Patrick Russell and Mark Duguid. (TBC)
Contact name:
Matthew Barrington