Visit to the National Archive of Moving Images (ANIM)

ANIM – National Archive of Moving Images, one of the most prominent film restoration and preservation centres, keeps more than 60,000 titles on deposit. Over the last three years, with the support of the European Financial Mechanism EEEA Grants 2020-2024, 10,000 minutes of film with many different topics were digitised, from the canning industry to the social practices of fishing communities. Tourism, economy, culture and society offer work materials that throughout the years enabled generations of directors to respond to commissions or deliver creative works, so often reacting to propagandist regimes and purposes.

The project FILMar is carried out by Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, with the support of the Financial Mechanism EEA Grants 2020-2024.

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The project FILMar, by Cinemateca Portuguesa, and Doclisboa once again invite professionals to visit the National Archive of Moving Images (ANIM), the heart of the preservation, restoration and digitisation process of the cinematic heritage. The visit is meant for everyone programming, thinking about and caring for the cinematic memory, and it will further the knowledge of the identification, preservation, restoration, digitisation and diffusion of the sea-related cinematic heritage. The visit includes a tour of the digital lab, where the several stages of the digitisation process will be shown, and there will be a screening of a selection of short films undergoing work, which will be properly contextualised.

For film professionals with a Nebulae accreditation. Bookings must be made between September 29 and October 17 by completing a form available here.

Maximum number of participants: 40.

The project FILMar is carried out by Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, with the support of the Financial Mechanism EEA Grants 2020-2024.

23 Oct • 10:00 / 300’

Arquivo Nacional das Imagens em Movimento (ANIM)

Nebulae

Visit to the National Archive of Moving Images (ANIM)

Filmes exibidos

Alfama, A Velha Lisboa

General view of the Castelo de São Jorge. Alfama: from East, the Porta do Sol with the Santa Luzia Viewpoint and the bust of Júlio de Castilho; the Cross of Santo Estevão, the Monastery of São Vicente, Rua de São Pedro, the Chafariz de Fora Square. The Casa dos Bicos.

“Everything that can be done with a camera, and through its use, can be found in Alfama: it is driven by hand through the streets, shamelessly exploring every inch and every nook, hoisted inside a basket with dubious balance, surpassed by a carriage or by the jump of a young boy, it splits itself in between close-up and wide range, between diving and rising, the fake perspective and the distorted angle…” (José Matos-Cruz, texts from Cinemateca)

João de Almeida e Sá (1930)

Mata do Bussaco

Views from the Bussaco’s palace and forest, recently discovered by Norway’s National Library, which reveal traditions from its communities, from the spaces and history of a unique place in the heart of Portugal. Very little is known about the reasons that led this pioneer of Norwegian cinema to Portugal. On the beginning of the 20th century, he has traveled across several countries, producing travelogs of his journey.

Hans Berge, 1919 (?)

O Fado

A history of madness and misfortune that focus its attention in a blacksmith who, swapping its home in Alfama for the fun of nightlife, starts a sentimental relationship with a coffee bartender, whom he eventually leaves after his father intervenes…

Theme chosen by Henrique Alegria, taking inspiration from Malhoa’s painting «O Fado», which also inspired a small 1-act play by Bento Mântua, and aims to pay homage to the poet Augusto Gil and the words of the song “Canção das Perdidas”. This film, by Pátria Film, offers to adapt these 3 pieces.

Maurice Mariaud, 1923