Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and Moving Image invites submissions for its seventh issue on Posthumanism, edited by Patrícia Castello Branco. The submission deadline is 30 November 2014 (for 500-word abstracts). The complete CFP is available here.
Mundo Sur/real (2)
28.10.2014
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Rose Hobart (1936).
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O Sangue de um Poeta (Le Sang d’un poète, 1930).
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Tenente Kijé (Poruchik Kizhe, 1934).
Serão mostrados amanhã nas Sessões do Carvão, os primeiros às 18h30, o segundo às 21h30, na Casa das Caldeiras.
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“Mundo Sur/real”: (1)
O Interior: “As Quatro Voltas”
27.10.2014
As Quatro Voltas.
A última crónica que escrevi para o jornal O Interior é uma análise crítica do filme As Quatro Voltas (Le quattro volte, 2010), realizado por Michelangelo Frammartino. O texto pode ser lido aqui.
Otherwise
22.10.2014
Alias, “The Two”.
Alias (2001-6) belongs to a genre, the action thriller, in which the difference between good and evil is usually clear and reliable. However, this does not happen in this series. The protagonist, Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner), is a double-agent for the CIA and SD-6, which indicates the blurred boundaries between US government intelligence and covert activities and criminal activities. The ambiguity about the characters and the uncertainty about the fictional world are extended to the complex narrative structure and its entangled aspects: time, space, and narration.
Right from the pilot episode, “Truth Be Told” (1.01), Alias experiments with the ordering of events. This episode contains four flash-forwards. The sequence in which the chronological events of the story are arranged in the plot gives us access to glimpses of the future. The frequency, the number of times that any story event is shown in the plot, becomes significant — in “In Dreams” (4.19), for example, Arvin Sloane, the head of SD-6, relives some of his memories. There are other instances in which an initial scene is presented and the rest of the episode is a flashback that leads to it, such as “Mockingbird” (5.04). At other times, manipulations are more structural. Season two ends with an ellipsis. In “The Telling” (2.22), Sydney wakes up two years later not remembering what happened during that time. The omitted interval is then revealed all through the next season, starting with “The Two” (3.01). She needs to know who she was to know who she is.
The screen space is always a selective space that asks us to imagine (or to keep in mind) what is beyond it. Since in Alias the editing usually gives us access to the danger that someone faces, the relation between on-screen and off-screen space is used to create tension. This seems obvious, but nevertheless the series uses spatial design and direction to create images as striking as the mysteries of the story — “Another Mister Sloane” (4.16) is a good example. There are recurrent spaces in the series, the operational bases, the offices of the CIA, SD-6 headquarters, among others, but for the most part the action is expanded to a multitude of countries. This constant dislocation of the action fragments each episode in parts, each one identified by the city’s name. The place of action is global, potentially anywhere.
The narrative information in Alias is usually conveyed through the main character, Sydney. She is not present in all the scenes, consequently, the narration is not restricted to her. Even so Sydney’s explanatory voice-over is heard throughout the first season and the character becomes an internal narrator. Episode by episode, she is turned into a centre around which a group of new characters revolve — a group that includes her mother, her aunts, and her sister. Later, the voice-over disappeared and gave place to a less subjective narration. Narrative absences and limited points-of-view in certain sections abound as well as sudden events. At the end of season four, in “Before the Flood” (4.22), Vaughan, Sydney’s CIA handler, is revealing to Sydney that he is not who she thinks he is when their car is suddenly hit by another vehicle. They survive the crash and Vaughan is taken and then murdered. The introduction of new characters in the fifth and last season carries on the logic of continual narrative reorganization of the series. A case in point is the beginning of season four that is a kind of restart: the characters are working together again in a new unit called Authorized Personnel Only (APO) as if the series has started again. In addition, narrative arcs are interrupted by new ones and sometimes never reach full closure. This discontinuous development plays well with the unstable and unclear characters’ relations and motivations.
What is told cannot be separated from the way it is told. The narrative structure of the series mirrors the ambivalence and unsureness created by the story, generating the permanent feeling that the narrative could have gone otherwise. Yet there is nothing arbitrary about this. The coherence of this structure is stated in the word used as title: alias, a different identity, someone that can pass for another person or who becomes another person. From this point of view, the narration in Alias is mostly unreliable, because there is always something to be added, something we do not know that will change our reading of what we have seen and heard.
Mundo Sur/real (1)
21.10.2014
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Entr’acte (1924).
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A Concha e o Clérigo (La Coquille et le clergyman, 1926).
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Estrela do Mar (L’Étoile de mer, 1928).
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Um Cão Andaluz (Un chien andalou, 1929).
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The Hearts of Age (1934).
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Kurutta ippêji (1926).
Serão mostrados amanhã nas Sessões do Carvão, os primeiros às 18h30, o segundo às 21h30, na Casa das Caldeiras.
O manifesto assinado por André Breton em 1924 sugeriu que a arte surrealista abre espaço para “a futura resolução destes dois estadostaparentemente tão contraditórios — que são o sonho e a realidade, numa espécie de realidade absoluta, uma surrealidade”. O surrealismo desenvolveu-se no cinema logo a partir desse ano e permaneceu uma força artística e estética vital nas décadas seguintes. Tal vitalidade está ligada ao modo como a arte cinematográfica de influência surrealista se manteve atenta ao real, dele extraindo elementos para o superar, ou seja, repensar, reformular, recriar, transformar. Os exemplos que compõem este ciclo afirmam-se pela sua realidade, entendida como experiência do real a que o filme dá corpo. O desafio lançado por Breton mantém-se actual e dirige-se tanto aos cineastas como aos espectadores de cinema. Será entendendo de que mundo cada uma destas obras emergiu que compreenderemos a sua surrealidade.
Sessões do Carvão: “Mundo Sur/real”
17.10.2014
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22 Out.:
18h30 Entr’acte (1924), real. René Clair | A Concha e o Clérigo (La Coquille et le clergyman, 1926), real. Germaine Dulac | Estrela do Mar (L’Étoile de mer, 1928), real. Man Ray | Um Cão Andaluz (Un chien andalou, 1929), real. Luís Buñuel | The Hearts of Age (1934), real. Orson Welles e William Vance
21h30 Kurutta ippêji (1926), real. Teinosuke Kinugasa
29 Out.:
18h30 Rose Hobart (1936), real. Joseph Cornell | Le Sang d’un poète (O Sangue de um Poeta, 1930), real. Jean Cocteau
21h30 Tenente Kijé (Poruchik Kizhe, 1934), real. Aleksandr Faintsimmer
5 Nov.:
18h30 Spare Time (1939), real. Humphrey Jennings | Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947), real. Hans Richter
21h30 O Último Ano em Marienbad (L’Année dernière à Marienbad, 1961), real. Alain Resnais
12 Nov.:
18h30 La nez (1963), real. Alexandre Alexeieff e Claire Parker | Les Abysses (1963), real. Nikos Papatakis
21h30 Suna no onna (1964), real. Hiroshi Teshigahara
19 Nov.:
18h30 Armadilhas da Tarde (Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943), real. Maya Deren e Alexander Hamid | El topo (1970), real. Alejandro Jodorowski
21h30 Trzecia czesc nocy (1971), real. Andrzej Zulawski
26 Nov.:
18h30 L’Invention du monde (1952), real. Jean-Louis Bédouin e Michel Zimbacca | Encontro em Bray (Rendez-vous à Bray, 1971), real. André Delvaux
21h30 Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974), real. Jacques Rivette
3 Dez.:
18h30 Dois Homens e um Roupeiro (Dwaj Ludzie z Szafy, 1958), real. Roman Polanski | Eraserhead (No Céu Tudo é Perfeito, 1977), David Lynch
21h30 Experiência Alucinante (Videodrome, 1983), real. David Cronenberg
10 Dez.:
18h30 Les Jeux des anges (1964), real. Walerian Borowczyk | Um Z e Dois Zeros (A Zed & Two Noughts, 1985), real. Peter Greenaway
21h30 Alice (Neco z Alenky, 1987), real. Jan Svankmajer
17 Dez.:
18h30 The Heart of the World (2000), real. Guy Maddin | Os Canibais (1988), real. Manoel de Oliveira
21h30 Barton Fink (1991), real. Joel Coen
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