Editorial

Editorial | Table of Contents 2021

AVANCA CINEMA

No. 12 (2021)

Published 2021-10-25

Abstract

AVANCA | CINEMA

Title: Avanca | Cinema 2021
Coordination: António Costa Valente
Executive production: Moghadaseh Rouhi Ardeshiri
Editors | Pagination: António Osório e Sérgio Reis
Cover design: António Osório

Cine-Clube de Avanca Editions, 2021
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ISSN: 2184-0520 (printed book)
ISSN: 2184-4682 (online)
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AVANCA | CINEMA 2021

AVANCA | CINEMA 2021, completely at home, because of a time that doesn’t seem to disappear
We opened last year’s conference with the news of a virus.
A year later, we continue to live conditioned by its presence.
In this context, in 2021 everything is different and again the same as last year.
At home, but always and stubbornly also in Avanca, the conference takes place at the meeting of researchers, projects and the necessary dissemination and debate.
As a mixed conference, the 12^th AVANCA | CINEMA 2021 reinforces its commitment to research, researchers and the exciting world of films.
In this event, the cinema’s gaze glances always returns to the spaces of art, technology, communication and the new contours that mark the movement of images and their narratives.
We are going to carry out this double-blind review Conference, reinforcing the always desired certainty that it is safely.

Tribute Javier Venturi

An attentive man left in 2020

It was in 2016 that professor and researcher Javier Venturi participated for the first time in AVANCA | CINEMA. It came with the look of contemporary cinema by Carlos Iglesias, Álex de la Iglesia and Agustí Villaronga, on the fratricidal civil war in Spain.
The following year, he presented a study on the resurgence of war movies and science fiction. A study of film production in the country where he taught, the USA.
In 2018, Venturi returns to Spain and focuses on the echoes in the cinema of the memory of the Franco regime. The summary of his communication ends with “All wounds cannot be healed until true justice will be served to the victims of the Francoist regime”.
Javier Venturi quickly became an indispensable participant in AVANCA | CINEMA. His work as a researcher was now joined by a physical presence that underpinned a growing space of friendship. Long conversations made it possible to advance projects and establish chains of debate that were growing and quickly becoming fundamental.
With this spectator and attentive participant of the conference and festival days, each year, these days became fuller and capable of sprouting almost the unthinkable. Ideas flowed, perspectives widened and achievements began to emerge.
Venturi quickly becomes a key player in the jury of the oldest short film festival. In the Italian city of Montecatini, you find an extension of the friendship space that started in Avanca.
Spanish cinema is once again the field of investigation of his 2019 communication. He returns to the times of the Franco regime and this time he focuses on what he calls the regime’s Russian-speaking and Anglophone rhetoric. Films are the natural consistency for this political gaze where communism and the unresolved issue of Gibraltar seemed to fit the urgent need to find another culprit.
Spanish cinema is once again the field of investigation of his 2019 communication. It goes back to the times of the Franco regime and this time he focuses on what he calls the regime’s Russian-phobia and Anglophobia rhetoric. Films are the natural consistency for this political gaze where communism and the unresolved issue of Gibraltar seemed to fit the urgent need to find another culprit.
Javier Venturi was definitely part of the AVANCA | MOVIE THEATER. In 2020 he integrates the Scientific Committee and participates in the international jury of the Engr. Fernando Gonçalves Lavrador Award.
It was last year.
Federico Fellini and José Luis Cuerda were the last filmmaker who brought us to Avanca. According to him, “Both cinematic approximations embrace the ideological resistance towards the ongoing process of dehumanization and its pernicious effects on society. The achievement of social justice is deliberately postponed by the technocratic power elite, and by youth generations that are disengaged with its historical past, and enslaved by digital technologies”.
This year, Javier Venturi will no longer be around. He disconnected technology from life and left us with what he knew most and best to explore – memory.
We have a combative and vigilant history, also and always penetratingly interpreted in a shrewd and exemplary rigorous work. We stay with Javier Venturi as a friend who will always occupy a chair at the conference.
Javier Venturi will be our favorite spectator.

António Costa Valente

Prize Engr. Fernando Gonçalves Lavrador

In posthumous tribute to one of the most significant Portuguese researchers in the Semiotic, Aesthetic and Cinema Theory, whose work is essential and universal, the Conference AVANCA | CINEMA creates in 2010 the Prize Engr. Fernando Gonçalves Lavrador, aiming to distinguish the best communication present in the conference.

In 2021, the International Jury constituted by:

Mônica Stein, Ph.D – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Denize Araújo, Ph.D – Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (Brazil)
Joaquim João Sousa, Ph.D – Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal)
Nuno Fragata, Ph.D – ESAD, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal)
Alfonso Palazón Meseguer, Ph.D – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
Francisco-Julián Martínez-Cano, Ph.D – Universidad Miguel Hernández (Spain)

The International Jury decided to award the following paper:
The Engr. Fernando Gonçalves Lavrador Prize was awarded to the communication:
“A hibridez do biopic” by Paulo Filipe Monteiro – ICNOVA/NOVA FCSH, Portugal

Honorable mention:
“Recôncavo da Bahia, o cinema em ponto de ebulição” by Angelita Bogado and Lina Cirino – UFRB, Brazil
and to:
“Phenomenology of a Projection Booth” by Petra Dominkova – FAMU, Czech Republic

The organizing committee should like to thank all the participants, jury members, relatives of Engr. Fernando Gonçalves Lavrador and also to the sponsor of the prize which contributions were decisive to the social, artistic, cultural and scientific relevance that was experienced trough the event.
Thank you very much.
AVANCA | CINEMA 2021

Honour Committee AVANCA | CINEMA 2021

Sua Excelência o Magnífico Reitor da Universidade do Algarve
Professor Doutor Paulo Águas
Sua Excelência o Magnífico Reitor da Universidade de Aveiro
Professor Doutor Paulo Jorge Ferreira
Sua Excelência o Magnífico Reitor da Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Professor Doutor Emídio Gomes
Sua Excelência o Vice Reitor da Universidade de Coimbra
Professor Doutor Delfim Leão
Sua Excelência Senhora Presidente da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Professora Doutora Helena Pereira

Scientific Committee AVANCA | CINEMA 2021