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Filho da Mãe – Água-Má

Filho da Mãe - Água-Má

by Raquel Pinheiro

Água-Má [another name for alforreca (jellyfish)] is Filho da Mãe’s fourth album. Like its predecessors, Palácio (Palace), Cabeça (Head) and Mergulho (Dive) it was recording in different locations. In this case between a recording studio, HAUS, in Lisboa, and Madeira, where Rui Carvalho spend a week during an artist-in-residence program working on his alter-ego’s record.

As it is usual with Filho da Mãe, in Água-Má the guitar is a canvas, or a camera, for the images and paintings that are seen when listening to its themes. The literal translation of Água-Má is Mean Water. Couple it with a jellyfish and Madeira Islands, in the middle of the Atlantic, and it is not surprising water, and watery images of every sort, from gentle flow of streams to tumultuous waves crashing against shore, to the continuous simmering splash of a waterfall our mind and eyes.

Filho da Mãe weaves a thread of different intensities, running from the beach (Praia, the opening track), to home (Casa, the closing track), in a crescendo that, after endless adventures, ebbs with the arrival to safety. There are no voice or words or a character in Água-Má, but it wouldn’t be far-fetched to used it as a soundtrack to Ulysses’ Odyssey.

(Lovers & Lollypops, 2018)

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Fantasporto 2018

The 38th runs February 19 to March 4 at Teatro Rivoli, Porto. This year’s theme is The theme of this 38th edition, reflecting the worries of today’s world is Ethics- The boundaries of Science, Arts and the Cinema, with lectures and debates on the matter.

It presents fantasy films, directors week, Orient Express (Asian Films) Portuguese Cinema.

Highlights include: Toho’s hero saga Ajin: Demi Human; Toni Venturi, A Comédia Divina; Joel Lamangan, Bhoy Intsik; Robin Aubert, Les Affamés; Glass Garden, Shin Su-won; Budapest Noir, Éva Gárdos; The Charmer, Milad Alami; November, Rainer Sarnet; Al Asleyeen- The Originals, Marwan Hamed; Chimera, Pappi Corsicato, Bikini Moon, Milcho Manchevski and Anna Karenina: Vronsky’s Story, Karen Shakhnazarov.

Portuguese film will premiere Luís Diogo’s Uma Vida Sublime, Fernando Vendrell’s Aparição and Bernardo Lopes and Helder Faria’s Doutores Palhaços.

For more info: http://www.fantasporto.com/home

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KINO 2018 – German Language Film

Josef Hader
Wilde Maus (Wild Mouse) © Petro Domenigg

The 15th KINO – German Language Film runs January 18-24 @ Cinema São Jorge, Goethe-Institut, Lisboa; 25-28 @Teatro Municipal Rivoli, Cinema Passos Manuel, Porto; February 14-16 @ Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra. KINO has a main section and a documentary section – KINOdoc, as well as a family session and sessions for schools.

Lisboa’s opening session will be Josef Hader’s Wilde Maus (Wild Mouse), in Porto and Coimbra Andres Veiel’s Beuys, a documentary about German artist Joseph Beuys.

Egon Schiele - Tod und Mädchen
Egon Schiele – Tod und Mädchen (Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden)

Main Section: Haus ohne Dach (Roofless House), Soleen Yusef; Alki Alki (Drunkard), Axel Ranisch; Egon Schiele – Tod und Mädchen (Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden), Dieter Berner; Casting, Nicolas Wackerbarth; Siebzehn (Seventeen), Monja Art; Herbert, Thomas Stuber; Ich und Kaminski (Kaminski and I), Wolfgang Becker; Die göttliche Ordnung (The Devine Order), Petra Biondina Volpe.

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Beuys © zeroonefilm

KINOdoc: Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht (If I Think of Germany at Night), Romuald Karmakar; Bruder Jakob (Brother Jakob), Elí Roland Sachs; Parchim International, Stefan Eberlein; Zwischen den Stühlen (To Be a Teacher), Jakob Schmidt;
Mein wunderbares West-Berlin (My Wonderful West Berlin), Jochen Hick; Overgames, Lutz Dammbeck; Beuys, Andres Veiel; B-Movie – Lust & Sound in West-Berlin, Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange.

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B-Movie Lust & Sound in West-Berlin © DEF Media GmbH

For more info: https://www.goethe.de/ins/pt/pt/kul/sup/kin.html

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Man with the Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov

CLOSE-UP – Observatório de Cinema de Famalicão: A Viagem runs 14-20 at Casa das Artes, Famalicão.

It includes 40 films, film-concerts, concerts and an exhibition.

Film concerts are:

Saturday 14: Man with the Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, with music by SENSIBLE SOCCERS, 9:30pm.

Saturday 21: 3 Short-Films, Reinaldo Ferreira, with music by DEAD COMBO, 9:30pm.

Among others, films include: Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme; Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, Werner Herzog; Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch; Las Acacias, Pablo Giorgelli; Talvez Deserto Talvez Universo, Karen Akerman & Miguel Seabra Lopes American Honey, Andrea Arnold; The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi; The Spirit of the Beehive, Víctor Erice and Traces of a Diary by André Principe & Marco Martins.

Tickets: €6 (film concerts)/€3 (films). For more info: http://www.closeup.pt

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Underscore Festival – Music, Sound, Moving Image, and Archive

Mocny Czlowiek

Underscore Festival – Music, Sound, Moving Image, and Archive runs 13-17 in Lisboa.

13 (Tuesday): Mocny Czlowiek by Henryk Szaro (1929), live music by Pink Freud, Centro Cultural de Belém, 9:30pm.
14 (Wednesday): Kreutzerova sonáta by Gustav Machatý (1927), live music by musical por Pavel Fajt with Maria do Mar and Maria Radich, Cinema São Jorge, 9:30pm.
15 (Thursday): Even Silence is Cause of Storm (2016) by Adriana Vila & Luis Macías, Cinema São Jorge, 9:30pm
16 (Friday): Mulheres da Beira by Rino Lupo (1923), live piano by Nicholas McNair, Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, 9:30pm.
17: A recreation of documentáries presented at V Congresso Internacional da Crítica Cinematográfica (1931) and A Dança dos Paroxismos. Original composition played by Composição Neil Brand (piano), Cinema São Jorge, 9:30pm