NOVA FCSH, in collaboration with Doclisboa, welcomes Argentine critic and director Ramiro Sonzini, founder of the critical project La Vida Útil and author of the film The Night Is Fading Away, which is part of this edition’s festival programme.
In this conversation, Sonzini will share his vision of the future of cinema and criticism, exploring the relevance and “useful” function of film criticism today, as well as its relationship with the practice of cinema. The discussion will be based on his critical work and his career as a director, also drawing on his close relationship with Portuguese cinema.
The dialogue will feature Pedro Florêncio (director and lecturer at NOVA FCSH) and Luís Mendonça (film critic, founder of À Pala de Walsh magazine, director and researcher at NOVA FCSH). Both have been promoting the Universidade Zero project, dedicated to reflection on cinema and pedagogy, which will serve as the backdrop for this conversation.
The session thus aims to cross critical and creative trajectories, question the place of academia in the contemporary film debate and think together about the forms of transmission, criticism and invention that shape the cinema to come.
