Para uma arqueologia da Escola Portuguesa

• Autores: Paulo Cunha
• Localización: Avanca / Cinema 2012 / Cine Clube de Avanca (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-989-96858-2-6, págs. 304-308
• Idioma: portugués
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• Resumen

  • In the first half of the 80’s, excellent critical reception received by several Portuguese films present at importantinternational film festivals served as a main argument for an interest group to pressure the Portuguese state toinvest in a film policy which is based on supporting the production of an “auteur cinema” devoted to an internationalcinephile circuit.With a domestic market insufficient to ensure the viability of a Portuguese film industry, political authorities eventuallychoose to support “difficult films of Portuguese filmmakers who find extra ways to finance themselves abroad.” Thispolitical position have not been indifferent to aesthetic and cultural orientations assumed by the Portuguese FilmInstitute, the School of Cinema and the Portuguese Cinematheque, and the growing influence of a cinema projectpromoted by some members of a generation of filmmakers that in the past two decades promoted a significantrenovation in Portuguese cinema.My aim in this presentation is to reflect on the origin of the term “Portuguese School” which is used to define a certaintendency of Portuguese cinema of the past three decades. I am interested in doing an archaeological study on theorigin of the concept and try to identify the corpus of this “school”, what are the authors that are associated, what aretheir creative strategies and what are their ethical and aesthetic affiliations.