23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

23 MAY — 02 JUNE 2024

A session composed entirely of Portuguese cinema, from silent to the one produced in the 21st century, where a journey is made through the way work has been represented in national cinema, from ideas of technological progress to contemporary forms of alienation

Occupation: Work

May 04, Thursday, 19:30 (91')

Cinemateca Portuguesa, Room Luís de Pina • C.566

A Via Áurea

A silent, black and white, 1930s advertisement film for CUF fertilizers, starring the legendary Vasco Santana in a story where the dissatisfied Manuel wonders why he doesn’t get rich just from the efforts of his work.

Autor Desconhecido

1930, 10'

O Pão

An operatic vision on the instances linked to bread-making – from the seed to the collection, from the milling to the consumption of bread – but which inserts in itself a treatise on the consecration of the dignity of man through his work.

Manoel de Oliveira

1963, 28'

Work Liberates?

A film-essay that poses the demolishing question, overshadowed by the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, about the liberating power of work to figures like Paulo Varela Gomes, António Vaz Pinto, Paulo Borges, Agostinho da Silva, Herman José, Irmãos Catita, among others.

1993, 25'

Sleepwalkers

When the world becomes perfectly automated what is human labor for? Nourishment to the industry itself.

2014, 22'

Fado Lusitano

Through collage, this animation crosses a series of national events (from maritime expansion to accession to the European Community), thus composing a satirical portrait of Portugal.

1995, 6'

Silvestre Focus

A session composed entirely of Portuguese cinema, from silent to the one produced in the 21st century, where a journey is made through the way work has been represented in national cinema, from ideas of technological progress to contemporary forms of alienation

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