Director's Cut Shorts — IndieLisboa

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

01 MAY — 11 MAY 2024

Director’s Cut Shorts

May 29, Wednesday, 19:00 (90')

Cinemateca Portuguesa, Room Félix Ribeiro • C.270

SCREENING WITH Q&A

Chantal Akerman’s First Gaze

Four short films that Chantal Akerman made as part of her entrance exam to the Institut Supérieur des Arts. They were filmed in 8mm, show life in the city of Brussels and in Knokke, on the Belgian coast, and include Akerman’s sister and mother, who will be a recurring figure in her work.

Chantal Akerman

1967, 16'

School Time

During his internship at ANIM – the Portuguese Moving Images Archive, director Francisco Torres deeply engages with the film collection of his own former film school, ESTC – Lisbon Film School. Alongside Manuel Mozos, the two dove into the past of the school that educated them.

Francisco Torres

2024, 23'

Eléctricos

A short film about an unabashed love of trams that leads a law student to leave everything behind to dedicate himself to his dream: becoming a brakeman. A school film by Pedro Sena Nunes, made at ESTC as part of the Lisbon European Capital of Culture activities in 1994.

Pedro Sena Nunes

1994, 18'

Atlas Of An Amateur Cinema: Mapping the Discarded

It is estimated that around 99% of amateur cinema and home movies are lost. Cartography of the Discarded is the first episode of a series that explores what remains of this private cinema. It is an introduction to an enormous blind field in the history of cinema, with testimonies from José Manuel Costa, Amarante Abramovici, among others.

Luísa Homem, Inês Sapeta Dias

2023, 33'

Director's Cut

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Francisco Torres, Inês Sapeta Dias, Luísa Homem, Pedro Sena Nunes

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