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Academic publications
Roy Andersson: The essence of the complex image (2021)
Audiovisual Essay published in JSTA, a SCOPUS-indexed journal focusing on research on Audiovisual Art. Available in Vol. 13 No. 1 of 2021 with the title “Audible (Art): The Invisible Connections Between Sound, Music, and Sound Art”.
Abstract
The work of Roy Andersson, a Swedish auteur that turned its back to Realism and embraced Abstractionism, embodies one of the few truly defying and groundbreaking attitudes in modern Cinema: the denial of speed. The current essay focus on the methods through which he obtains this effect and the contribution of his body of work to the Aesthetics of Cinema.
Keywords
Roy Andersson, Aesthetics, Audiovisual essay, Trilogy of the living, Complex image, Slow cinema
Cinema without Image: a case-study of imagetic creation (2020)
Conference paper presented at AVANCA|CINEMA, co-autored with Filipe Lopes.
Available at: https://publication.avanca.org/index.php/avancacinema/article/view/137
Abstract
Cinema Without Image (CSI) is a sound creation exercise without visual support. It was purposely designed for cinema and audiovisual students, consequently, inspired and oriented by the audio workflow that usually makes up a film production. The authors believe that it is necessary to create pedagogical resources and experimental exercises which allows one to do creative sonic work, albeit led by a musical context and not sound design per se.
This kind of context encompasses critical listening, sound manipulation practices, a phenomenological and empirical relationship with sound and, above all, a musical understanding of what one is producing and/ or listening. This paper will describe and analyze the CSI exercise based on contributions by the professor and the students but, specifically, the authors will try to understand the (musical) impact that the CSI had on the students.
Keywords
Sound, Music, Cinema, Education.
Fritz Lang: the World through the monocle of Modernism (2019)
Conference paper presented at AVANCA|CINEMA, co-autored with José Alberto Pinheiro.
Available at: https://publication.avanca.org/index.php/avancacinema/article/view/43/74
Abstract
The echoes of German Expressionism still resonate in this modern era of filmmaking. Much of the influence of said movement came through the innovations and transgressive thinking that Fritz Lang implemented in his movies. This article set itself to review the filmography of the German director produced between 1917 and 1933, the period of time that marked his production in German territory. Through the analysis of his life and background and themes and techniques employed in his movies, we identified several innovations that influenced filmmakers to come and laid ground for the uprising of movements such as film noir and modern thrillers. The importance of Lang’s work cannot be diminished in a time where science fiction and horror movies are so relevant in modern culture.
Keywords
Fritz Lang, German Expressionism, Film History, Film Noir, Innovations
