A CINEMA OF THE EXTRA-ORDINARY
SILENCES
First screening in Canada
By : CÉSAR PEDRO
2022 | 24 min | VOSTA
Country of origin of director : Portugal
Country of production : Portugal
Country of recording : Angola
SYNOPSIS :
Uíge, Angola. Inside a Portuguese catholic seminar, different forms of silence are experienced. A place inhabited by multiple sonorities and images that wander from nature and meditation to colonial impressions.
Selected at DocLisboa International Film Festival (2022).
BIOGRAPHY :
Filmmaker working mainly with documentary and experimental film, music, and theatre. Author of several films in both Vilnius and Guimarães’ European Capital of Culture. As a finalist of the Inov-Art programme in Mozambique he directed his first feature film Casa Velha. Currently teaches in film and multimedia departments in several institutions and is finishing a MFA in Multimedia Art at Lisbon Fine Arts University with the short-film Silences.
Free admission subject to availability of seats
Tuesday May 9th, from 5:30 pm
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY – VA-114
1395 Boulevard René-Lévesque O, Montréal, QC H3G 2M5
