In this workshop I will share my creative process of filmmaking. What I have learned in the last 25 years, what still haunts me, what continues to worry me. It is essentially a work in the microcosm of the family, the house and the street. It feels like we travel to what is familiar and yet we find strangeness and new stories beyond our comfort zone. Each of my films triggered a different challenge.
It is from these challenges that I will encourage participants to work on a practical exercise that will reflect their personal voice and approach and that could contain the seed of a future cinematographic project.
Catarina Mourão
| 14:00 16:30 |
1st sessionWhat is documentary in the contemporary world of images? Out of Water (1998) A minha aldeia já não mora aqui (2005) |
Escola Secundária de Melgaço |
| 10h00 12h30 > 14h00 16h30 |
2nd sessionDifferent strategies for a portrait. Filming the other. The Lady of Chandor (1998) Through Shadows (2010) |
Escola Secundária de Melgaço |
| 10h00 12h30 > 14h00 16h30 |
3rd sessionMise en scène in Documentary – Realism and Construction of naturalism. Restless (2001) On Edge (2006) |
Escola Secundária de Melgaço |
| 10h00 13h30 |
4th sessionFilm rehearsal and first-person cinema The Hissing of Summer Sands (2019) The Wolf's Lair (2015) |
Escola Secundária de Melgaço |
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Catarina Mourão studied Music, Law and Film in Bristol and Edinburgh. In 1998 she founded AporDOC, Portuguese Documentary Association. Since 1998 she has been teaching Film and Documentary in many BA and MA courses. With Catarina Alves Costa she started Laranja Azul in 2000, an independent production company for creative documentary and visual arts in Lisbon where she has directed many awarded films. In 2016 she obtained her PhD in Film by the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD film “A Toca do Lobo” (The Wolf’s Lair) was released theatrically all over Portugal and premiered at Rotterdam Int. Film Festival. Her main areas of research are creative documentary; realism; memory, dream and archives. She is currently teaching film at the MA of Arts and Multimedia at Lisbon’s Fine Art School.
Films available at https://dafilms.com/
