From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon is the section of Doclisboa where we find films that watch, question and try to articulate seemingly loose times and narratives, enabling us to meet our own human extent. From characters who embody the contradictions of our political spaces and tell our present-day story—Der Soldat Monika and Henry Fonda for President, or even Lula, by Oliver Stone—to films that offer spaces and collective voices, bearing witness to and re-articulating history—Dahomey, Voices of the Silenced, A Queda do Céu, Por ti, Portugal, eu juro!, Les mots qu’elles eurent un jour—, to the landscapes of the Middle East, where the relationship between cinema and violence was never neutral—Mitahat le Shemesh Khula. In the same territory, but in a different time, revisiting Ici et ailleurs, by Anne Marie Melville and Jean-Luc Godard, and De Palestijnen, by Johan van der Keuken, one points out the idea of cinema as a living force of the past. exergue – on documenta 14 analyses the relation between art and power within one of the most relevant art exhibitions in the world.
From the Earth to the Moon is thus is an attentive look on the part of the filmmakers into the way humans relate to reality and other fictions. It is in this gaze that a journey is made through various cinematographic cartographies.
Tomás Baltazar
