no. 23 Editorial
Moodboard

ISSN · 2183-5527

Visual Essay + Author in residence

7 Portraits

7 Portraits

João Fonte Santa

VHS, 29' By João Fonte Santa, assisted by António Caramelo The video Sete Retratos was created for the exhibition Mundo de Aventuras, curated by José Alberto Ferreira, and features 7 video portraits, …

7 Portraits

B, Y, R

Visual Essay

B, Y, R

Henrique Biatto

Água Viva

Visual Essay

Água Viva

Lander Patrick, Gonçalo Marques, José Soares

Through the longest path

Visual Essay

Through the longest path

Margarida Rodrigues (MAR)

Working with mountains is easy

Article

Working with mountains is easy

Isadora Alves

Process Of Unframability

Sound Essay

Process Of Unframability

Frantz Loriot

Drowned, in the shame of light

Visual Essay

Drowned, in the shame of light

Isabela Abate & João Castro

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Visual Essay

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Pedro Paiva

Sightings

Visual Essay

Sightings

Francisco Novais

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

Visual Essay

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

António Olaio

Misfits

Visual Essay

Misfits

Fabrizio Matos

Out Of Here

Sound Essay

Out Of Here

Quatroconnection (Carla Santana)

Weiße Rose

Visual Essay + Author in residence

Weiße Rose

João Fonte Santa

it was just drained, drained

Sound Essay

it was just drained, drained

André Hencleeday

Lavagem

Visual Essay

Lavagem

João Jacinto

XXX

Visual Essay + Author in residence

XXX

João Fonte Santa

The hand with no specialty

Visual Essay

The hand with no specialty

Carolina Lino

Wrong Wrong n.23

Misfits

Visual Essay + Author in residence 10.08.2015

HDE: (I): Linkage (P) and Collision (E)

Sofia Gonçalves

Let us follow the doxa and begin with an epigraph: «Method of this project: literary montage. I needn’t say anything. Merely show. I shall purloin no valuables, appropriate no ingenious formulations. But the rags, the refuse - these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them.» Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project/Das Passagenwerk (frag. #1a, 8)

NOTE

If we look at the etymological origin of the word montage - taking things from the bottom up – we will find a unique relationship with the concept of editing in what is its selective and legitimizing function; only later was it to acquire its contemporary sense of an assembly of parts. To Sergei Eisenstein, montage corresponds literally to editing and modeling strategies of emotional speech. In his first essay, in 1923, before directing any film and while still working in theatrical production, Eisenstein introduces the concept of «montage of attractions», i.e. the meeting or junction of theatrical effects to generate an emotional response from the audience. Eisenstein, clearly a rhetorician, aspired to powerful effects that would lead his audience to feel and think exactly what he wanted them to. The author followed Vertov and Kuleshov, who had demonstrated a crucial principle in the cinematic process: the audience will relate any two sequential images on a narrative or conceptual way. The editor of the cinematic images was then in a position of the greatest control and emotional power when driving the reception of the film, and editing was the rhetorical principle that revealed to the spectator the creative force of the authoral work.

Cinema as a Vehicle of Ideology

Sabrina Marques, Luís Mendonça, Carlos Natálio

Visual Essay + Author in residence

HDE (II): A rectangle formed from...

Sofia Gonçalves