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Abstract
When the Portuguese Revolution (25th of April 1974) overthrew the longest dictatorial regime in Europe in the 20th century, activists, filmmakers and intellectuals flooded to Portugal to witness the unfolding of the event. The revolution was followed by two years of transition from the dictatorship to the new democratic system, Ongoing Revolutionary Process (PREC). Portuguese filmmaker Sergio Trefaut’s Another Country (1999) documents the journey of Brazilian Glauber Rocha, US American Robert Kramer, Germain Thomas Harlan, and others who have travelled to Portugal in support of the socialist revolution and to film its making. More than observers, these filmmakers had a direct influence and impact in the local scene. This presentation aims to touch upon the role of Thomas Harlan and his crew in the development of the only independent occupation of agricultural land by its daily waged workers in Torre Bela farm. In 1975, Thomas Harlan arrived in Lisbon drove from central Europe with a group of colleagues with the purpose of recording the revolution, but when they became acquaintance with the popular upheaval in Torre Bela they joined the movement. Torre Bela (1977) by Harlan it’s a document that shows both the direct participation of the workers and the problematics / complexities of Harlan’s interference. By drawing from film practices, the film cooperatives, and dialogues between local and international filmmakers, this presentation wants to explore the intertwinements between social, political and aesthetic transformations in the context of the Portuguese revolution.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 4 Jun 2019 |
Event | Transnational Radical Film Cultures: An International Conference on Film, Aesthetics and Politics - University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Duration: 3 Jun 2019 → 5 Jun 2019 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/clas/transnational-radical-film-cultures/index.aspx |
Conference
Conference | Transnational Radical Film Cultures: An International Conference on Film, Aesthetics and Politics |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Nottingham |
Period | 3/06/19 → 5/06/19 |
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Keywords
- cinema
- radical cinema
- revolution
- Portugal
- cine-geographies
- militant image
- Carnation Revolution
- curatorial
- curating
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
- Cultural Studies
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Decolonising History
Carolina Rito (Session Chair)
12 Oct 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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"Not Propaganda": A Curatorial Staging on the Aesthetic-Political Continuities Between the Liberation Struggles in Lusophone Africa and the Portuguese Revolution
Rito, C., 1 Jan 2022Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Digital or Visual Media
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Contested Histories and the Curatorial: “The Portuguese Revolution Is an African Revolution”
Rito, C., Kornetis, K. (ed.), Alexander, S., Fernández de Larrinoa, K., Papadogiannis, N., HD Geraghty, N., Ribeiro De Menezes, A., Payne, L. & Infante Batiste, V., 18 Jun 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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La Revolución Portuguesa es una Revolución Africana’: Una Contra-Genealogía de las Revoluciones Occidentales
Rito, C., 9 Jan 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper