Filmmaking Seminar

In this edition of Doclisboa’s Filmmaking Seminar, we are happy to have UnionDocs – Center for Documentary Art back as our partner, co-designing this experience. Together, we propose to explore radical filmmaking practices through collectively built research and discussion. The Seminar comprises four sessions: three guided by invited critics from the RAW programme, and one organised with a traveling partner programme, Artistic Differences. It will showcase different film works being presented at Doclisboa through a creative and social format. Selected participants will watch the films together and be encouraged to combine knowledge, raise questions and share epiphanies to guide the thinking on the abundance of compelling images and sounds together. The group will deconstruct preconceptions and find useful ways to approach the relevant questions and meaningful insights that these films have to offer through a series of intimate small discussions that form a larger collective experience.

Free, subject to a selection process
Maximum number of participants: 30
Application Form.

The Filmmaking Seminar is organised in partnership with UnionDocs – Center for Documentary Art.

OCT 25 / from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm, São Jorge 2
First session – Artistic Differences with Cíntia Gil and Ignacio Agüero

OCT 26 / from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm, São Jorge 2
Second session – with Lautaro García Candela and Julián D’Angiolillo

OCT 27 / from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm, São Jorge 2
Third session – with Alonso Aguilar and Declan Clarke

OCT 28 / from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm, São Jorge 2
Fourth session – with Lorenna Rocha, Paula Albuquerque and Sofía Peypoch

Selected participants will be invited to attend the following screenings:

OCT 24 / 9.45 pm, Culturgest – Small Aud.
Notes for a Film, by Ignacio Agüero

OCT 25 / 10.00 pm, Cinema Ideal
Ongoing Cave, by Julián D’Angiolillo

OCT 26 / 10.00 pm, Culturgest – Small Aud.
How I Became a Communist, by Declan Clarke

OCT 28 / 11.00 am, São Jorge 3
Like the Glitch of a Ghost, by Paula Albuquerque
earth altars, by Sofía Peypoch

The seminar will be held on-site and in English, with no translation.
Selected participants only.
Sessions will be recorded and excerpts may be included in the final collaborative outcome.

CINEASTAS DA PROGRAMAÇÃO DOCLISBOA / FILMMAKERS FROM DOCLISBOA’S PROGRAMME

Declan Clarke

Filmmaker and artist. His films have been included in FIDMarseille International Film Festival, Villa Medici Film Festival (Rome), Underdox (Munich), Punto de Vista (Navarra), Beldocs (Belgrade), Tromsø International Film Festival, F/Stop Film Festival (Leipzig), St. Petersburg International Science Film Festival, The New York Underground Film Festival and the Prismatic Ground Film Festival (also in New York).

Ignacio Agüero

Film director, mainly of documentary films. Professor at the University of Chile, where he has taught film for the last fifteen years. Won several awards for his films, the latest of which the Grand Prix at FIDMarseille in 2019 and the Prince Claus Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. Retrospectives of his films have been held in Barcelona, Paris, Biarritz, Mexico City, La Paz, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Lima, Trieste and Chile.

Julián D’Angiolillo

Master’s degree in visual arts from the National Arts University of Argentina. Directed the feature films Ongoing Cave (Doclisboa), Embodied Letters (Viennale, Ficunam, Toulouse) and Becoming Stallholder (Bafici, Premio Sur Award for Best Documentary, Fidocs Jury Award), besides short films and installations. Exhibited his work in spaces such as CCCB (Barcelona), Casa de las Americas (Madrid), Maison Rouge (Paris) and Pastificio Cerere (Rome).

Paula Albuquerque

Portuguese artist and scholar living in Amsterdam, whose artworks have been shown in solo exhibitions at several galleries and at film festivals such as Rotterdam (2016) and Sheffield DocFest (2020). Published two books and regularly presents her research at conferences, including Media in Transition (MIT), NECSUS and Visible Evidence. Currently affiliated with the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam as a Senior Researcher.

Sofía Peypoch

Visual artist that combines film, photography, poetry and found objects. Her practice resides at the interstice between personal memory and collective thought. Her work imagines memory as navigable space where meaning lies in witnessing the experience of the present as a continuous fabric of events in constant transformation. She’s currently studying cinematography at the Centre for Cinematographic Training.

RAW CRITICS

Alonso Aguilar

Film critic, programmer, and audiovisual creator based in San José, Costa Rica. He is an editor at Krinégrafo magazine, a member of photogénie’s 2023 editorial board, and a member of the Encounters Film Festival’s pre-selection team. His writings have been published in Mubi Notebook, Cinema Tropical, Variety, Talking Shorts, and Hyperallergic, among other publications. Alonso is also a member of FIPRESCI and does jury duties for the organization.

Lautaro García Candela

Born in 1994, in Buenos Aires). Attended the University of Cinema, where he now works as a professor. Cambio cambio, his second film, premiered in the international competition at the Mar del Plata Festival and was screened at several festivals. He is the editor of La vida útil, a magazine that has already published six issues on paper.

Lorenna Rocha

Historian, critic and programmer of film showcases and film festivals. Co-founder of the platform Indeterminações. Editor-in-chief of camarescura magazine. Teaches courses on criticism, curatorship and Black and Brazilian cinema. Her most important curatorial work took place at FestCurtas (Belo Horizonte) and Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife. In 2023, she participated in the Berlinale Talents, and she curated the project Black Memories in Movement.

CRITIC FROM THE PARTNER PROGRAMME

Cíntia Gil

Member of the Directors’ Fortnight programming team, co-curator of UnionDocs’ film club Artistic Differences, and associated programmer at Doclisboa. Teaches at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and the Film Training Centre (Mexico). Co-director of Doclisboa from 2012 to 2019 and director of Sheffield DocFest from 2019 to 2021. Juror at the Berlinale, Mar del Plata, Jerusalem, Taiwan, FidMarseille and Dokufest festivals, among others.