BESIEGED
SUNDAYS AT CASA DO CINEMA: MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA E O CINEMA PORTUGUÊS 2
Film session presented by Bernardo Pinto de Almeida
Access to the House of Cinema Auditorium is via Rua de Serralves nº 873, 30 minutes before the start of the session.
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Second film session of the film programme Manoel de Oliveira and Portuguese Cinema 2, with the screening of António da Cunha Telles' "Besieged" (1970), presented by poet and essayist Bernardo Pinto de Almeida.
28 APR | SUN | 17:00
O CERCO | BESIEGED
António da Cunha Telles | 1970 | 111'
Lisbon, 1969. Marta (Maria Cabral), a young girl from the bourgeoisie, seeks a new life away from marriage and of her petulant husband (Mário Jacques). She works as a ground attendant in an aviation company and as a model for an advertising agency. Her financial stability gets disrupted and Marta gets envolved in a web of obscure situations. She meets Victor Lopes (Miguel Franco), a smuggler who doesn't get surprised by life anymore. Marta feels lost in her own contradictions and seeks solace in fleeting relationships. One day, Victor is found dead and Marta feels progressively besieged... (José de Matos-Cruz, O Cais do Olhar).
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Bernardo Pinto de Almeida
Poet and essayist.
Between 1972 and 1975, he completed a Cinema Course at the National Conservatory in Lisbon and co-founded the magazine M/CINEMA with João Botelho and Jorge Alves da Silva. The first issue of the magazine featured an extensive interview with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.
He received the AICA/Gulbenkian Foundation Art Criticism Award in 1983. From 1990 to 1996, he was a member of the Purchasing Committee of the Serralves Foundation, where he organized various exhibitions.
He organized the collection of contemporary Portuguese art at M.E.I.A.C. - Museo Extremeño Ibero-Americano de Arte Contemporaneo in Badajoz, Spain.
From 1997 to 2001, he served as the Artistic Director of the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, where he founded the Center for Surrealism Studies and organized several exhibitions.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Berardo Foundation, representing the State (2005-2009).
He is the Artistic Director of the Julio/Saul Dias Center in Vila do Conde.
As an independent curator, he organized over a hundred exhibitions in museums and institutions in Portugal and Spain.
He wrote prefaces for over three hundred catalogs in Portugal and abroad.
He directed the collection "Caminhos da Arte Portuguesa no Século XX" (40 published volumes) at Editorial Caminho.
He collaborated with magazines such as "Lapiz," "Arte y Parte" (Spain), "Artforum," and "Contemporanea" (USA).
He has given numerous lectures at cultural institutions in Portugal and abroad. Additionally, he is the author of several poetry collections and various essay books, some of which have been translated in Spain, France, and Italy.
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