Thinking a Cinema in Circles, with Marinho De Pina

Resonance Spiral by Filipa César and Marinho De Pina
Documentary, 2024. More information on the CINEMA RITCS website.

Masterclass
The screening is followed by a Masterclass with co-director, activist and writer Marinho De Pina in conversation with film scholar Gawan Fagard. The focus lies on the idea of cinema spaces not as places for distribution and consumption of images, capitalising on an economy of affect, but instead opening cinema as an active space of participation, emancipation and witnessing. How can the makeshift space of film become a ‘con-templum’ - a space where communities gather for a moment away from everyday hardships? What role can an itinerant, mobile cinema and a non-aligned media archive play in the process towards transnational solidarity between various liberation movements and peripheral communities? How to keep that fire burning at 24 frames a second?

Marinho de Pina is a filmmaker, transdisciplinary artist, performer, poet, musician and writer. He is currently a research assistant at the Centre for Studies on Socioeconomic Change and Territory in Lisbon doing his PhD on “Sacred Spaces in Bissau”. Since 2017, he has been working on Mediateca Abotcha in Guinea-Bissau with Filipa Cesár, Sana na N’Hada and Suleimane Biai, a programme for the cultural creation of dreams and utopias with the local community there.

This event takes place in the framework of FIREPLACE CINEMA, a research project on cinema, community and reconfigurations of the economy of empathy through film by Gawan Fagard at RITCS school of arts.