Master Classes
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Master Class:
My Iranian Cinema
Kamran Shirdel by himself.
One of the most recognized Iranian directors and one of the fathers of Iranian Nouveau Cinèma, takes the challenge to talk about his work. Presenting some of his most remarkable films including ("The Night it Rained", "Teheran is the Capital of Iran" and "Women’s Prison").
Kamram Shirdel talks about his work and professional carer started in 1965. His films will also be presented in Lisbon, at the Portuguese Cinematheque in the 21st of November with the director’s presence.
Journey Through Political Documentary
To act cinematically over the world.
"One previous question: Is there anything that isn’t politic? Not quite sure about the answer, even if the question seems to carry an implicit answer, I shall leave to a second question: What is documentary?
I doubt if anyone is sure about it."
The documentary assumes such different forms that any attempt to define limits chocks with its permanent and renewed inner movement. So, how to dare a journey over such evanescent thing as documentary, specially the political documentary? Well, assuming the risk of an improbable destiny, taking reality as a departure and the world as the arrival. Acting cinematically."
"The itineraries are mapped: rumours of a civil war, pacts with the devil, memory and forgetfulness from concentrations camps, social purposes, echoes from revolutions and wars, and the Iraqi war. These are entangled itineraries, cross-ways convoluting the adventure of a look. The look is sometimes oblique."
Jorge Campos
The Photographer and the Reality
Artistic Photography and Photojournalism.
Tireless traveller with a sagacious look, Leonardo Autera leads a life devoted to image. From the simple people of Lucania to Fashion and Film stars, from cosmopolitan exhibitions to the simple look over the daily life in Colombia, or Southern Italy, Leonardo tells a story in each photo. The dialogue of a staged photo artistically treated with the brutality of his photojournalistic work, which took him to places of conflict and catastrophe.
This Master Class has as main objective the approach to the world of artistic and useful photography, being oriented by Leonardo Autera, disciple of Helmut Newton, with a long career devoted to artistic photography and photojournalism in more than 160 countries.