Trás-os-Montes. Anthropology at the Service of the Imagination
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Carrer de Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
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This session forms part of the Aula Xcèntric's program of screenings entitled Ethnographic F(r)ictions, which invites viewers to discover a series of works that are far removed from traditional ethnographic cinema.
This film, by the Portuguese couple António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, is a poetic portrait of the Trás-os-Montes region in the north-easternmost part of Portugal.
Shot with a small crew that moved on foot between the villages, the film takes us into a rural world where space and time become blurred and the reality observed in the present entwines with a time that fluctuates between a mythical past and an uncertain future. The directors therefore break with the conventions of objectivist ethnographic cinema, presenting us with a documentary in the form of a children's game, in which the lyrical, imaginary and real merge together within a framework that goes beyond the limits of the genre.
Screening in Portuguese with Spanish subtitles.
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