[ecrea] CFP ReFocus: The Films of João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata

ReFocus: The Films of João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata

With a career that spans over twenty years, João Pedro Rodrigues and 
João Rui Guerra da Mata are one of the most creative duos in 
contemporary filmmaking working within the context of Portuguese cinema. 
Acknowledged by several film festivals (Cannes, Indie Lisboa, Locarno, 
New York) as major Portuguese directors, and by the Harvard Film Archive 
as creators whose works “reflect the multifarious history of film, from 
classic genres to experimental film”, both filmmakers have contributed 
to the growing interest in Portuguese cinema.

Their works, either individually or collaborative, tell us particular 
stories of love and human desire, mythologizing places, environments and 
characters. Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata’s cinema challenge the audience 
by placing the viewers in hybrid territories where the auteurs explore 
their own obsessions: from the urban streets of Lisbon (/O Fantasma/The 
Phantom/, 2000), to the dark alleys of Macao (/A Última Vez Que Vi 
Macau/The Last Time I Saw Macao/, 2012), and to the “natural” world of/O 
Ornitólogo/The Ornithologist/(2016).

Together, or individually, they have been delving into different 
portraits that defy general cinematic conventions and focus on the 
constant reinvention of cinema and identity. In this sense, the authors’ 
own journey in cinema is also a journey on the many possibilities of the 
different identities and cultures that an artist (and a nation) can 
encompass and inhabit.

Within this context, we are accepting submissions on any aspect of these 
directors’ oeuvre – from comprehensive approaches (influences, themes, 
style) to more diverse essays –, but we are especially looking for 
chapters on the following:

-          João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata as auteurs;

-          Melodrama;

-          Identity;

-          Displacements;

-          The local and the global;

-          Marginal cinema;

-          Transnational cinema;

-          Oriental cycle (Multiculturalism, Identity);

-          Queer Cinema;

-          Gender/Genre;

-          Contemporary art cinema;

- /Mise-en-scène/and/or/dispositifs/;

-          Soundscapes;

-          Digital filmmaking;

-          Artworks and Installations;

-          Autobiography/Memory;

-          Docufiction;

-          Expanded cinema;

-          Slow cinema;

/The Films of João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata/will be one 
of the scholarly editions to be published by the University of Edinburgh 
Press in the /ReFocus/ series on international directors. Series editors 
are Robert Singer, PhD and Gary D. Rhodes, PhD.

Please send your 250-750 word proposal and CV to 
(thefilmsofportuguesecinema /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(thefilmsofportuguesecinema /at/ gmail.com)>**by*June 15, 2018*. We 
welcome initial email enquiries to discuss possible proposals.

Final submissions will be approximately 6000 to 8000 words, in English, 
referenced in Chicago endnote style, and submitted by*November 1, 2018*.

Any questions can be sent to

José Duarte & Filipa Rosário

(School of Arts & Humanities, University of Lisbon)


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