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 2018 Programme ... ❦ Film notes ... ❦ Reader ... ❦ Photo diary ... ❦ Polaroid album ... ❦ Who made it ... ❦ World Machine
“Look, take notice, listen”, the machine of the world says to the wanderer when they meet on the road. But after catching a glimpse of the utopia of progress, opened to him by the machine, the traveller rejects it and slowly goes on his way, hands at his sides, meditating on his loss. Following the Brazilian poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, on his disenchanted rereading of the world-machine of Camões (1572), we want to go back to the road of that encounter with the machine of the world. There, we will investigate the possibilities and dilemmas posed today to the cinema machine facing a global belligerent, extractive, exploiting machinery whose only rule is to hide its mechanics and operating codes. From observational documentary to forensic architecture, Doc’s Kingdom 2018 proposes a program of investigations and experiences reinvesting on the capacity of cinema to plunge into the contingency of historical time and attest, by its own means, the indisputable evidence of the real. Among the audiovisual gear of war and control machines dodging their own counter-shot, what strategies are filmmakers, artists and scientists developing to give us back an image of the world? From the 2nd through the 7th of September in Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal, Doc's Kingdom gathered an international community of 100 participants for an intensive, blind program of screenings and discussions, also including meals, walks and special events. The seminar is the unabridged and cumulative experience including surprise film screenings, collective discussions and the informal gathering in a bucolic environment, with guest filmmakers in person during the whole seminar. In order to encourage full commitment with the whole weeklong program, the lineup of films is kept undisclosed. At arrival, participants receive the seminar reader with information about the program and guest filmmakers. Film notes are given only at the end of each screening. Along the week, participants know they will see several works by each filmmaker and have the opportunity to discuss in an intimate atmosphere. |
2018: World Machine In the presence of Daniel Mann, Deborah Stratman, Eitan Efrat and Sirah Foighel Brutman, Hannah Meszaros Martin, João Pedro Rodrigues, Jumana Manna, Maria Augusta Ramos, Nicolás Pereda. 9.30 pm Opening session Andrei Ujică
OUT OF THE PRESENT (1995, 96 min.) 10 am Deborah Stratman HACKED CIRCUIT (2014, 15 min.)
Forensic Architecture RAFAH: BLACK FRIDAY (2014, 9 min.)
Forensic Architecture KILLING IN UMM AL-HIRAN (2017, 11 min.) Deborah Sratman IN ORDER NOT TO BE HERE (2002, 33 min.) Discussion with Deborah Stratman, Hannah Meszaros Martin, Daniel Mann 2.30 pm Sasha Litvintzeva, Daniel Mann SALARIUM (2018, 42 min.) Jumana Manna WILD RELATIVES (2018, 68 min.) Discussion with Jumana Manna, Daniel Mann 9.30 pm Sirah Foighel Brutman and Eitan Efrat PRRRRIDE (2008, 3 min.) Sirah Foighel Brutman and Eitan Efrat COMPLEX (2008, 9 min.) Jumana Manna BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION (2010, 21 min.) Jumana Manna THE UMPIRE WHISPERS (2010, 15 min.) João Pedro Rodrigues THE KING’S BODY (O CORPO DE AFONSO) (2012, 32 min.) Discussion with João Pedro Rodrigues, Jumana Manna, Sirah Foighel Brutman and Eitan Efrat 10 am Maria Augusta Ramos BEHAVE (JUÍZO) (2007, 90 min.) Discussion with Maria Augusta Ramos 2.30 pm Nicolás Pereda SUMMER OF GOLIATH (EL VERANO DE GOLIAT) (2010, 78 min.) Discussion with Nicolás Pereda 9.30 pm Forensic Architecture KIVALINA (2013, 36 min.) Deborah Stratman THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (2016, 60 min.) Discussion with Hannah Meszaros Martin, Deborah Stratman 10 am Andrei Ujică AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU (2010, 180 min.) THE TRIAL (O PROCESSO) (2018, 137 min.) Discussion with Maria Augusta Ramos 9.30 pm João Pedro Rodrigues ALLEGORIA DELLA PRUDENZA (2013, 2 min.) João Pedro Rodrigues WHERE DO YOU STAND NOW, JOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES? (2017, 21 min.) Sirah Foighel Brutman and Eitan Efrat ORIENTATION (2015, 12 min.) Daniel Mann FUTURE DIARIES (2011, 46 min.) Discussion with João Pedro Rodrigues, Sirah Foighel Brutman, Eitan Efrat, and Daniel Mann 10 am Sirah Foighel Brutman and Eitan Efrat NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE (2015, 18’) Forensic Architecture MARE CLAUSUM - THE SEA WATCH VS LIBYAN COAST GUARD CASE (2017, 29 min.) Deborah Stratman O’ER THE LAND (2009, 52 min.) Small group discussions 2.30 pm Sirah Foighel Brutman and Eitan Efrat PERFECT CUT (wip, 2018) Nicolás Pereda THE PRIVATE PROPERTY TRILOGY (performance lecture, 2018) Hannah Meszaros Martin THE OUTLAWED EARTH / LA TIERRA PROSCRITA (lecture, 2018) Discussion with Sirah Foighel Brutman, Eitan Efrat, Nicolás Pereda, and Hannah Meszaros Martin 9.30 pm João Pedro Rodrigues THE ORNITHOLOGIST (O ORNITÓLOGO) (2016, 117 min.) 10 am Deborah Stratman RAY’S BIRDS (2010, 7 min.) Nicolás Pereda GREATEST HITS (LOS MEJORES TEMAS) (2012, 103’) |
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