Towards a new cinefilia: the film-museum as a cartography of the real

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https://doi.org/10.34629/rcdmt.vol.1.n.1.pp121-143

Keywords:

Museum films, Temporality, Spatiality, Cartography of the real, Assembly knowledge, No Quarto da Vanda

Abstract

In this text, dimensions of production of what we call museum films will be approached, justifying the need for their existence for the benefit and enjoyment of a new type of spectator. In the age of telematic omnipresence, the disregard of temporality and spatiality provokes a reversal of interiority, a loss of the experience of deepening the films on the part of their viewers. Film-museums generate effects of monumentality, manage to transform a time interval into an event, convoke the spectator, empowering him as a co-producer of meaning, making him active. This is how a cinema of cartography of the real makes it possible for the spectator to disassemble and reassemble it, on the way to a new cinephilia. As an illustration of this broader phenomenon, the film No Quarto da Vanda, by Pedro Costa, will be convened.

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Author Biography

  • Pedro Florêncio, NOVA Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

    Graduated from ESTC (National School of Film and Theatre), he has a master's degree in Cinema by FCSH-UNL (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Nova University Lisbon) and holds a PhD in Arts from the University of Lisbon. In 2020, he published the book “Sculpting Space - The cinema of Frederick Wiseman”, based on his PhD dissertation. He is a researcher at CEC (Centre of Comparatist Studies of the University of Lisbon). 

    He currently teaches "History of Cinema" and "Portuguese Cinema" in the Sciences Communication Graduation Course at FCSH, “Portuguese and Brazilian Cinema” under the CIEE international course program, "Documentary" at ETIC (Professional School of Innovation and Creation Technologies) and “Spatial Representation”, “Story Board” and “Visual Narrative” at EPJP (Jean Piaget Professional School). He is the coordinator of the National Cinema Plan at IDS (Institute for Social Development). 

    In 2011, he made the short film “Banana Motherf*cker”, which received several awards at international venues. In 2014, he made the experimental documentary "Where my friend made a painting", screened at several national and international festivals since then. In 2017, he made the medium-length film “Afternoon”, which received the Special Jury Prize at DocLisboa 2017 National Competition. "Day Shift" is his first feature film, which premiered worldwide at DocLisboa 2018 and was commercially released in 2019.

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2022-07-25

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Towards a new cinefilia: the film-museum as a cartography of the real. (2022). RHINOCERVS: Cinema, Dança, Música, Teatro, 1(1), 121-143. https://doi.org/10.34629/rcdmt.vol.1.n.1.pp121-143