UNIA arteypensamiento continue their discursive workshop series with Narratives in Fugue Part IV, focusing on the work of Pedro Costa.
The workshop will discuss the film-maker's break with the theoretical division between fiction and documentary, in what Costa has called documentaries about sensibilities.
The cinema of Pedro Costa raises fundamental questions about the
political power of this artistic practice, suggesting new ways of
feeling and of doing things to develop a new framework of
commitment in representing reality. Like fictional essays, his
films approach reality without entering it and, rather than making
a show of denouncing it, condense it. His images resist any kind of
naturalism, stylising reality down to its essence. With radical use
of devices such as time and space, it is by artifice, that is to
say the spatial treatment of the shot (which is usually fixed), the
flow of words, editing and sound (often from a scene playing
off-camera), that the complex reality of a particular world is
revealed.
The workshop will discuss the film-maker's aesthetic position on
his break with the theoretical division between fiction and
documentary, in what Costa has called documentaries about
sensibilities. These films are meticulously constructed in expanded
time, a time that persists rather than flowing on, that resists the
present and eliminates any spontaneity or improvisation, while
transforming itself into the human and political memory of a group.
The aim of the workshop is not to contribute to the proliferation
of new cultural products but to reflect, in the company of Pedro
Costa and his films, on the possibilities of cultural action in the
face of an industry capable of absorbing any product.
The workshop, led by Pedro Costa, will be held over three days with morning and afternoon sessions, including debates, film viewings and practical experiment.
Visit UNIA arteypensamiento's event page for more details here.
