Friday, 5/2/2025
EAAD - Campus de Azurém - Museu
As part of Plan A of the PhD in Architecture,
2024/2025 edition, Class #09 of the Advanced Knowledge Seminar, entitled
“Reimagining Geographies: the Intersections of Spaces in Popular Cinema of the
Diaspora”, will take place on May 2 at 2pm at the EAAD Museum.”, given by
researcher Catarina Laranjeiro
Synopsis | Diaspora popular cinema refers to
audiovisual works created by immigrants, produced with modest budgets and
amateur actors and techniques. Made in European countries, these films tend to
portray (and reproduce) the countries of origin of those who direct or produce
them. For example, some films are shot in the suburbs of Lisbon, but their
narratives take place in Bissau (Guinea-Bissau) or Praia (Cape Verde). Drawing
on audiovisual works created by Cape Verdean immigrants in Europe - such as João
Pereira (a.k.a. Tikai) in Portugal or CV TEP in Luxembourg - I propose to
explore the connection that these works establish between the space filmed and
the space represented. By filming the country of origin in the host country,
surprising transnational stories are created, in which more than the shared
imaginaries between immigrants and countries of origin, the unshared
imaginaries between immigrants and the host country are revealed.
Bio | Catarina Laranjeiro is a researcher at the
Institute of Contemporary History of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(FCSH-NOVA), where she is developing a research project on vernacular cinema in
Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and their European diasporas. She has a PhD in
Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship from the Center for Social Studies at
the University of Coimbra. She directed the film “Pabia di Aos” (2013) and
co-directed the film “Fogo no Lodo” (2023). She participates in various
projects that interweave anthropology, cinema and the visual arts.
