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In search of the cinema of poetry: the time of the myth through Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis

Principal researcher: João Pedro Barriga

Research group: Practices and Politics of Culture


Keywords

Poetics | Cinema | Myth | Margarida Cordeiro

Funding Institution

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

State

Open

Start date

01-09-2022

End date

31-08-2026

Reference

2022.12703.BD


Abstract

This research establishes an analysis of what we call "cinema of poetry" or, the poetic instance of the moving image. Crossing different authors, it stimulates the disentangling of preconceptions attached to the notion of truth, seeking to demonstrate that the poetics, inherent in cinema, can be an important contribution to the "truth of the real", in the sense that it allows a more fluid and hybrid observation of the world, of life and of being. In a deeper investigation, we take as a case study the author Margarida Cordeiro and her work, partly made with António Reis. The cinematographic elements that both produced come from an incessant search for poetics that, through myth, they found in the Portuguese northeast region of Trás-os-Montes.

Team

Full members

Catarina Alves Costa

Practices and Politics of Culture