Professor Lúcia Nagib

Director of the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures, University of Reading

Passages: travelling in and out of film through Brazilian geography

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 4.30p.m. A1.25 MILLBURN HOUSE

This talk investigates the material life that pulsates in the intersection between the film medium and reality, on the basis of works which embrace cinema’s intermedial nature with a political intent and to political ends. My focus will fall onto the ‘passage’, the intersection, the fleeting moment where both film and life merge before becoming themselves again. This is the moment in which, I wish to claim, they become artistic and political. The analysis of some representative moments in films by Beto Brant (such as O invasor/The Trespasser and Crime delicado/Delicate Crime) and Cláudio Assis (such as Amarelo manga/Mango Yellow and A febre do rato/Rat Fever) will be conducted in order to buttress my arguments on their transitionality between artistic media, geographic borders, social classes and not least between themselves. The aim will be to define what I call the ‘passage’ as the realm of a utopian connectivity, which blends fiction and the document of the real as a means to signify the filmmakers’ solidarity with the thought of a classless society.

ALL WELCOME! Drinks reception afterwards.