Films From Below: Emancipation through Cinema
On June 24 and 25, an intensive seminar on “Films From Below: Emancipation through Cinema” will take place at Casa do Comum, led by Federico Rossin. The seminar will be conducted in English and will run from 10:30 AM to 6:30 PM.
What are the strategies and forms through which cinema has put an educational and pedagogical process into images and sounds? How can the making of a film be transformed into a process of emancipation that horizontally involves all participants? We will not make yet another seminar on school, but on documentary cinema as an open work in progress, as a form of life in the making, as an instrument of self-awareness with the others, as a collective work of liberation and resistance. We will go through a vast panoply of radical pedagogical experiences that have taken place in the most diverse spheres, countries, historical moments, and we will analyse together the film works made by/with the most diverse political and social actors involved in radical film pedagogy practices (out-of-school children, street adolescents, first and second generation immigrants, indigenous populations, illiterate people, mentally ill patients, post-colonial workers, landless peasants, etc.).
Federico Rossin is a film critic, historian, professor and programmer. He studied literature, art history and philosophy.He is a curator in the fields of experimental, documentary, and animation cinema, and an independent programmer for worldwide festivals (among others: États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas, Cinéma du Réel, DocLisboa) and cinematheques (among others: Film Museum Vienna, Cinémathèque Française, Cineteca Italiana). He published seven books and regularly collaborates with various magazines (among others: Il Manifesto, Cahiers du Cinéma).
This seminar is open to graduate and postgraduate students and the general public. Please write an email to phildoc@fcsh.unl.pt if you would like to attend. Registration is mandatory, as places are limited.
This event is organised by the working group “Thinking Documentary Film” (IFILNOVA) in collaboration with Doc’s Kingdom — International Seminar Documentary Film.