The LisbonTalks return this year with a set of panels that dialogue between this edition of IndieLisboa program and pressing issues of the film universe. The five Talks, scheduled this year for the first time by the film website À pala de Walsh (www.apaladewalsh.com), take place at Room 2 in Cinema São Jorge, always between 18:00 and 19:30 (except the panel dedicated to Verhoeven, preceded by the projection of a short documentary on his work), beginning at 17:30. The sponsor Universidade Lusófona will provide logistical and technical support.
The table The Internet as cine-form (April 22) will result in a conversation on the desktop cinema, the culture of clips, loops and gifs, links, digital audiovisual essays and social networks. The guests will be teachers and academic researchers Tiago Baptista and Marta Pinho Alves, who will join the young director Afonso Mota, whose film The South is selected at IndieLisboa (National Competition Short 2). The conversation is punctuated by an interview in Skype to American film critic, “king of video essays,” Kevin B. Lee. Moderation is the responsibility of the walshian Ricardo Vieira Lisboa.
Verhoeven, the megalomaniac independent (April 26) brings together some of the leading Portuguese film critics to discuss – and bear to discuss – the film of the Dutch director, Independent Hero at this IndieLisboa. Some see Paul Verhoeven as a juggler filmmaker who achieved success both in his country and managed to infiltrate the Hollywood machine and make blockbuster films without losing his directness and irony. Critics Luis Miguel Oliveira (Público), Vasco Baptista Marques (Expresso) and Vasco Câmara(Público) help us to decode this independent megalomaniac. Before the talk, at 17h30, it is exhibited the film Tricked: Paul’s Experience, a documentary on the making of his last released film, Steekspel / Tricked. This was an experience with Kickstarter, an online funding platform, which proposed a collective film script. Moderating the discussion will be the walshian Carlos Natálio.
Television: the new cinema? (April 27) throws a question about the nature of this relationship increasingly problematized, between film and television. From the fever over television series, we asked ourselves if television is the new film, if it contains it, its opposite, or none of the above. The group of guests is composed by television and film director, awarded in the 2015 edition of IndieLisboa with Os Olhos de André, António Borges Correia; the fiction writer and administrator of RTP (Portuguese Public Television Channel), Nuno Artur Silva; and the art and media critic from Público, José Marmeleira. Moderation is the responsibility of walshian Luís Mendonça.
The new independent American cinema (29 April) looks at new trends in low-budget movies from the United States. In them, the work of director is no longer a position, the roles change from project to project and the films result from a network of professionals and friends working alternately. We invited the director Robert Greene, director of Kate Plays Christine, and the film critic from Público Jorge Mourinha. The session will be pointed with Skype interventions by the American independent cinema specialists critic Girish Shambu (author of the blog www.girishshambu.blogspot.pt) and Professor Geoff King (author of several books in the area). This table will be moderated by the walshian Ricardo Vieira Lisboa.
For a politique des acteurs (30 April) will address the relationship between actors and directors in film, specifically: the differences in method, the influence of the actor in the reading of the characters, the opening of directors to other forms of authorship. To this end, we invited the Independent Hero Vincent Macaigne, common denominator of many outgoing French films in recent years, especially as an actor but also in the director’s role; the actor and director Gonçalo Waddington and actress from Praga Theatre Joana Barrios. The Moderation is the responsibility of Francisco Frazão, theater programmer at Culturgest.