[Commlist] cfp: The Creative Process in Portuguese Film: Materialities

*Conference*

*The Creative Process in Portuguese Film: Materialities*

*King´s College London, 9 and 10 May 2019*

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*Keynote Speakers *

João Mário Grilo

Fernando Vendrell


The term /Materialities/, when applied to cinema, convokes the different 
areas that interact in the materialisation of a film project: choice of 
recording support, art direction, costumes, sound, light (amongst many 
others). The aim of this conference is to promote debate around the 
communicative and expressive powers inscribed in the many elements that 
comprise an oeuvre, apprehending filmmaking as a complex process 
apportioned between different teams; a process which culminates in a 
final work that is inevitably “inter-artistic”, since a wide range of 
arts and crafts have collaborated in the construction of the cinematic 
object.

Rather than focusing on the analysis of the numerous cinematographic 
codes, on what they enclose and signify, a /materialities/ methodology 
seeks to isolate each material dimension in its specificity, with a view 
to examining its function in the construction of the object “film”.

Costumes, scenographic elements, interior and exterior settings, sound 
design, acoustics, and so on: the entire final abstraction we call a 
film is based upon a set of concrete and material realities. Such 
formulation posits the
“disassembling” of every component at the heart of all “practical” 
structuring of the film so that each individual piece can be treated as 
an object worthy of analysis and study.

When António Reis referred to “the Aesthetics of materials” (1997) he 
meant the rigour in choosing the physical elements that compose the 
cinematographic frame and all the consequences that these options 
produce. Thus, words like “crafts”, “composition”, “materialisation”, 
“artefact” become decisive when trying to define this research object 
which fails to entirely coincide with both narrative and visual matter, 
and instead concurs with forms, cuts, materials, and the styles proposed 
by the several professional teams involved in the creative 
/materialities/ process.

Bearing in mind that the platform for this debate is Portuguese film, 
submissions may focus on, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  * The creative process in scriptwriting, cinematography, editing and
    directing
  * The working processes of set and costume designers
  * The mechanisms of literary adaptation to the screen
  * The creative process in acting
  * The construction of film soundtracks and music
  * The manner in which technology influences the creative process
  * The impact of finance and production in the creative process
  * The bearing of censorship in the creative process (external and self
    imposed)
  * The creative process in the audiovisual essay
  * The manner in which new media is creating new challenges for the
    creative process in film


Scholars and researchers from all related academic and practice-based 
fields and are invited to submit proposals.
The conference will be held in English.
Submission deadline: Friday 22 March 2019.
Participants will be notified by Monday 25 March 2019

Presenters wishing to submit a proposal for a paper presentation of 20 
minutes (max.) are required to provide their name, email address, the 
title of the paper, an abstract (300-350 words), 5 key bibliographical 
references, 5 keywords and a short biography (100-150 words) to the 
following email: (materialitiesinfilm /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(materialitiesinfilm /at/ gmail.com)>

*Fee (participants)*
Regular: £35
Student: £25

*Organisation*
Centre For Portuguese Language and Culture (King´s College, London)
and Utopia - UK Portuguese Film Festival

*Conference Committee*
Ana Maria de Medeiros (King’s College London)
Catherine Boyle (King’s College London)
Caterina Cucinotta (FSCH, NOVA University Lisbon)
Cecília Salles (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo)
Érica Faleiro Rodrigues (Birkbeck College, University of London/ FSCH, 
NOVA University Lisbon)
Frederico Pierotti (University of Florence)
João Mário Grilo (FCSH - NOVA University Lisbon)
João Paulo Silvestre (King’s College London)
Jorge Cruz (State University of Rio de Janeiro/CEI20, Coimbra University)
Manuela Penafria (Labcom.IFP, University of Beira Interior)
Mirian Nogueira Tavares (FCHS, Universidade do Algarve)
Nelson Araújo (CEEA, ESAP)
Sérgio Dias Branco (CEIS20, Coimbra University)

Project supported byCamões Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua and 
King’s College Arts & Humanities Research Institute







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