August 10th 2006, Thursday
Location: Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paulo

9am - 10:55am

19. The Tropics in Western Documentaries. Between Imaginary Worlds and News Coverage

Chair: Peter Zimmermann (Documentary Film Center-Stuttgart, Germany)

Peter Zimmermann (Documentary Film Center-Stuttgart, Germany)
From Colonial and Exotic Stereotypes to a Permanent Area of Crises. The Tropics in German Documentaries before and after World War II

Darlene Sadlier (Indiana University-Bloomington, USA)
South of the Border with Disney: The Making of Documentary for “Saludos Amigos”

Leonardo Vidigal (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Brazilian visions on Jamaica: a case of intercultural communication through cinema, audiovisual, and popular music

Jesse Lerner (The Claremont Colleges, USA)
Eisenstein in the Yucatan: Ecstatic Encounters with the Tropics

Joachim Bernauer (Instituto Goethe, Brazil)
The Tropics Reloaded. A proposal for the global network of the Goethe-Institut and its partners to rethink the inventory of tropical imagery

11am - 12:55pm

20. Memory and Historiography

Chair: Amir Labaki (It’s All True - International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil)

Arthur Autran (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil)
Between the “cavação” documentaries and the vanguard: montage films and base material.

Anita Leandro (Universidade Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, France)
Archive compilation and act memories in the contemporary documentary.

Glênio Nicolo Povoas (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Brazilian cinema’s histroriography seen by non-fiction

Amir Labaki (It’s All True - International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil)
Jean-Claude Bernardet Documentary-maker: Essays by Montage

2:30pm - 4:25pm

21. The city representation

Chair: Rubens Machado (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

José Gatti (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil)
Utopia and distopia in Mathias Mueller’s “Vacancy”

María Henriqueta Creidy Satt (Pontífica Universidade Católica RGS, Brazil)
“Edifício Master” and the fantastic city

Rubens Machado (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
“São Paulo, a sinfonia da metrópole” and B. J. Duarte films: The metropolis in two different aspects of modernity

2:30pm - 4:25pm

22. Documentary and Everyday Life

Chair: Eduardo Escorel (Filmmaker, Brazil)

Jacqueline Levitin (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Probing History and Memory: Navigating Between the ‘Document’ of Documentary and the Personal Experimental Film

Efrén Cuevas (University of Navarra, Spain)
Chronicles of Everyday Life through the Lens of the Professional Filmmaker

Eduardo Escorel (Filmmaker, Brazil)
Inside, Outside

4:30pm - 6:25pm

23. History, Political Iconography, Memory

Chair: Ana Amado (Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Christian Gundermann (Mount Holyoke College, USA)
“Tire Dié” – “Villa Sapito” – “Bonanza”. Three Generations of Documentary Filmmakers facing the Slums

Mariano Mestman (Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Images in dispute. A review of Argentine political documentaries of the 60s and 70s

Ana Amado (Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Aesthetics of duel as a historical document

Alejandra Oberti (Universidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Open Memory: on a possible use of testimonial archives

7:30pm
Documentary Film Exihibition:

The Caparaó Guerilla
Direção: Flavio Frederico
Brasil, 2006, 77´, Beta digital

In August 1966, a group of around twenty guerrillas, predominantly ex-military expurgated by the regime, settled in Serra do Caparaó, a mountain range on the border of Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais. In precarious conditions they started a strict military training in an attempt to prepare what would be the beginning of a great reaction against dictatorship. The guerrilla was sponsored by Cuban president Fidel Castro and organized by Leonel Brizola during his exile in Uruguay. Based on statements of ex-guerrillas, writers, journalists and military police officers, all directly involved in the project, the attempt to make a Brazilian “Sierra Maestra” is revealed.
* Best Brazilian feature documentary, It’s All True 2006