Activities developed between June 1st, 2023 and November 30th, 2023 (4th semester of the project):
Os 100 Melhores Planos – 100 Autores, 100 Planos
[The 100 Best Shots in Film – 100 Authors, 100 Shots]
Book chapters published by:
Ana Catarina Pereira, “Olmo e a Gaivota (2015), Petra Costa e Lea Glob: A gestação refletida ao espelho” [Olmo and the Seagull (2015), Petra Costa and Lea Glob: Pregnancy reflected in the mirror]
Ana Isabel Soares, “Jacquot de Nantes (1991), Agnès Varda”
Patrícia Nogueira, “As Praias de Agnès/Les Plages d’Agnès (2008), Agnès Varda: Reflexões sobre um plano” [Agnes’ Beaches (2008): Reflections on a plan]
UBI Meeting – Science and Innovation 2023 (Science and Technology Week)
Oral presentation by Ana Catarina Pereira, under the title “Speculum: the post-research about autobiographical documentary directed by women, on Portugal and Brazil”.
Diálogos Magazine
Publication of scientific article by Anna Clara Petracca with the title: “As Fronteiras da Escrita de Si no Cinema de Mulheres: uma análise do filme Nobody (2023), de Marcela Jacobina” [The Frontiers of Self-Writing in Women’s Film: an analysis of the movie Nobody (2023), by Marcela Jacobina.]
IBÉRICAS 6 – Relatar con Imágenes (diálogo luso-hispano en torno a la imagen contemporánea) [IBÉRICAS 6 – Reporting with Images (Portuguese-Hispanic dialogue around contemporary images) – Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid]
Oral presentation by Ana Isabel Soares, under the title “Speculum: Um olhar para dentro e uma pesquisa que se prolonga para além do tempo” [Speculum: A look inside and a research that spans beyond time itself]
FEMME Sessions #70 – PORTO FEMME – International Film Festival
Presentation of the films FotogrÁfrica [PhotogrAFRICA] (2016), Name of Baptism – Alice (2017) and Name of Baptism – Francis (2019), with the presence of director Tila Chitunda.
The conversation with the director was moderated by Catarina Sales Oliveira.
11th International Film in Perspective Seminar | Unespar
Thematic table “Writings by Women Filmmakers” with an oral presentation by:
Ana Catarina Pereira, titled “Autobiographical writing in theories about cinema: the Speculum project”.
Visible Evidence XXIX | Visible Evidence was organized in partnership with FilmForum 2023 – XXX International Film and Media Studies Conference
Oral presentation by Patrícia Nogueira, under the title “Reimagining the Black Atlantic Route: Transgressive Images in Tila Chitunda’s Autobiographical Documentaries”
Activities developed between December 1st, 2022 and May 31st, 2023 (3rd semester of the project):
Julia Fernandes Marques, with the title “A deslocação como ferramenta na elaboração da escrita de si: O cinema autobiográfico de Tila Chitunda” (Displacement as a tool in the elaboration of self-writing: Tila Chitunda’s autobiographical film)
Sílvia Wichan, with the title “Cruzando fronteiras entre a vida e o lar: os conflitos migratórios em ‘Aos meus pais’, de Melanie Pereira” (Crossing borders between life and home: migratory conflicts in “To my parents”, by Melanie Pereira)
XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology (Portuguese Association of Sociology)
Oral presentation by Catarina Sales, Ana Catarina Pereira and Julia Marques, under the title “SPECULUM: A autobiografia de Tila Chitunda como etnografia de memórias e diásporas” (SPECULUM: Tila Chitunda’s autobiography as an ethnography of memories and diasporas)
Society and Development: social, artistic and cultural interfaces of the female condition today (Society and Development Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at the State University of Paraná/Campo Mourão campus, Brazil)
Publication of a book chapter by Ana Catarina Pereira, Ana Isabel Soares and Caterina Cucinotta with the title “Deixa-me ser eu: A poética da desobediência materializada em corpos, rostos e objetos” (Let me be me: The poetics of disobedience materialized in bodies, faces and objects)
Interações Journal: Society and New Modernity, published by Miguel Torga Instituto Superior (ISMT)
Publication of the scientific article by Julia Marques and Ana Catarina Pereira, entitled "Desde Aquele Dia em Que Deixei de Ser Tua: O roteiro cinematográfico de autorrepresentação como processo de cura" (Since the day when I stopped being yours: The self-representation cinematographic script as a healing process)
Activities developed between June 1st, 2021 and November 30th, 2022 (2nd semester of the project):
XXV SOCINE (Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual), “Inventar Futuros” (“Inventing Futures”; Synchronous remote mode, São Paulo University, Brazil, online)
Thematic tables with oral communications by:
PortoFemme International Film Festival (Porto)
Julia Marques’s participation as a pre-selection jury in the women's film festival, SPECULUM partner
XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference (Gdansk, Poland)
Oral communication by Patrícia Nogueira, with the title "A Camera of One's Own: home movies in Women's autobiographical documentaries as a transgression strategy".
II Encontro Cinemagem (UNESPAR, Paraná State University, Brazil, online participation)
Oral communication by Ana Catarina Pereira, Ana Isabel Soares and Caterina Cucinotta, with the title: “Deixa-me Ser Eu: A poética da desobediência materializada em corpos, rostos e objetos” (Let Me Be Me: The disobedience poetics materialized in bodies, faces and objects)
Activities developed between November 1st, 2021, until May 31st, 2022 (1st semester of the project):
Debate panel with Caterina Cucinotta and António Costa Valente, moderated by Jesús Ramé López, on the theme "A Poética dos Materiais” (The Poetics of Materials).
Debate panel with Ana Isabel Soares and Alfonso Palazón Meseguer, moderated by Juan José Domínguez López, on the theme “A Poética do Documentário Autobiográfico” (The Poetics of Autobiographical Documentary).
I*A / Jornadas de Arts Investigation 2022 (Arts and Letters Faculty, Beira Interior University)
Oral communication by Julia Marques about her doctoral research, with the title “Desde Aquele Dia Em Que Deixei De Ser Tua” (Since The Day when I was No Longer Yours), in the context of autobiographical women's cinema
PhD Examination at the Arts and Letters Faculty (Beira Interior University)
Defense of the Anna Clara Petracca’s doctoral thesis, with the title “A Subversão da Identidade Através da Autorrepresentação na Videoarte de Mulheres” (The Subversion of Identity Through Self-Representation in Women's Video Art), under the supervision of Ana Catarina Pereira and co-supervision of Ana Isabel Soares, and Approved with Distinction.
Oral communication by Ana Isabel Soares with “Apresentação do projeto SPECULUM” (Presentation of the SPECULUM project)
Presentation of the short film Bairros Alegres, directed by Ana Isabel Soares in the workshop "Recording memories: the documentary as a process of writing the self" (October 2021)
UTOPIA Festival (Filmville – UK Portuguese Film Festival), at Lusófona University, Lisbon
Presentation in competition of Ana Isabel Soares's short film Bairros Alegres, created during the workshop "Recording memories: the documentary as a process of writing the self" (October 2021)
Forum Annuale delle Studiose di Cinema e Audiovisivi, FAScinA 2021, “Sentieri selvaggi: Cinema e Women's Studies in Italia” (Sassari University, Italy)
Oral communication by Caterina Cucinotta at Experienze Painel
Activities developed between March 2021 (date of application submission) until November 1 st , 2021 (formal start of the project):
XXIV SOCINE (Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual) Challenge the gravity: uncertainties, transits and directions for falls (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing – São Paulo, Brazil)
Oral communication (Remote modality, synchronous, São Paulo, online) by Ana Catarina Pereira, with the title “"Leonor Teles: O autorretrato de uma jovem cineasta portuguesa" (Leonor Teles: The self-portrait of a young Portuguese filmmaker)
Oral communication by Ana Isabel Soares (in presence) and Ana Catarina Pereira (online) with the title "Vou contar-vos uma história, a minha história: Filme autobiográfico e mulheres" (I will tell you a story, my story: autobiographical film and women)
IV edition of Porto Femme International Film Festival (Porto)
Dynamization of the workshop "Recording memories: the documentary as a process of writing the self" (9 hours) by Patrícia Nogueira. The participants created 10 short films, under the guidance of the researcher and team member.
IV edition of Porto Femme International Film Festival (Porto)
Participation of Ana Isabel Soares in the workshop "Recording memories: the documentary as a process of writing the self", dynamized by Patrícia Nogueira.
Creation of the short film Bairros Alegres.
Master's Degree dissertation at the Arts and Letters Faculty (Beira Interior University))
Defense of the master’s dissertation by Daniel Oliveira Silva, with the title Queers que criam: Modos de r/existência no cinema de Andrew Haigh, Céline Sciamma e Dee Rees (Queers who create: Modes of r/existence in the cinema of Andrew Haigh, Céline Sciamma and Dee Rees), under the supervision of Ana Catarina Pereira. Approved with a final grade of 19/20.
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