Guimarães 2012 CEC

These initiatives are designed to use images to rediscover the city’s photographic and audiovisual heritage and tell stories and show records of its wealth of memories.

• Reinventar a Memória (Reinventing Memories)
This involves collecting and organising materials from different bodies (photographic and cinematographic archives) so that they can be processed, shown and re-appropriated.

• Der Schlingel
Recovery by Paulo Abreu of an early 20th century film shot in Guimarães with the soundtrack and live performance of The Legendary Tigerman and Rita Red Shoes.

Screening of films shot for Guimarães 2012 and cycles based on themes and authors in different points of view and forms:

  » Trabalho da terra (Working the Land)

  » Convulsões (Convulsions)

  » Histórias de Guimarães (Guimarães Stories)

  » Drive-in Images

Today, all the artistic, economic and dissemination dynamics of audiovisuals are played out on terrains necessarily touched by the technological possibilities of the future. It is therefore important to create lines of creativity and display that build bridges between the labour of memory and new digital junctures.

Furthermore, this process must take account of two fundamental paths: a direct relationship with schools and the enrichment of publishing. The Curtas em 3D (Short Films in 3D) project provides for the use of new audiovisual production technologies to make two works of experimental fiction.

These projects foster cinematographic production and combine ideas and sensitivities about the same question: “How do we live the memory of our own history?”

• Histórias do Cinema (Histories of the Cinema)
This feature film consists of six short films by European directors from different cultural origins. it is a symbolic project combining ideas and sensitivities, with the participation of Manoel de Oliveira and Jean-Luc Godard.

• Histórias de Guimarães (Guimarães Stories)
These 12 new works by Portuguese authors address the city’s symbolic heritage, ranging from historical memories to the recent changes in Guimarães.

• Novas Visões de Guimarães (New Visions of Guimarães)
This collection of 10 short films represents the first works by young directors selected in a competition.

• Novais Teixeira
This project entails a film, exhibition and a book, and a competition to support young cinematographers, based on the legacy of Novais Teixeira and his life and oeuvre.

• Martins Sarmento
A documentary will be made about Martins Sarmento, a pioneer in photography.

These are cross-disciplinary artistic projects, including the commissioning of an original soundtrack with its world premiere in Guimarães. There is also Corredoura Remix, a project combining digital and traditional music using live audiovisual manipulation accompanying the performance of a folklore group; a documentary on Fernando Távora; the Confrontos (Confrontations) project, a show combining cinema and performing languages between theatre and dance jointly written by Portuguese, French and slovenian creators; and Auto-Retrato (Self-Portrait), an intersection between cinema and theatre.

An Audiovisual Production Platform will play a central role in all activities related to film-making for Guimarães 2012 and its legacy will form human and technological bases for future cinematographic undertakings.