FULL PROGRAM CINEMA / MOVING IMAGE 2026/2027
Heads of department: Gonçalo Robalo, Marcelo Costa
Full three-year programme dedicated to the learning of the technical and theoretical aspects involved in the creative use of the moving image, in the context of both cinematography and the fine arts. The orientation is progressively more individualized, encouraging the development of an authorial dimension in the work. Options for further development by applying to Individual Project and/or Advanced Course in Visual Arts.
Staff: Curso completo de 3 anos dedicado à aprendizagem dos aspectos técnicos e teóricos envolvidos no trabalho criativo da imagem em movimento, tanto no âmbito cinematográfico como no campo das artes plásticas. Acompanhamento progressivamente mais personalizado, promovendo o desenvolvimento de uma dimensão autoral do trabalho. Opção de desenvolvimento posterior com candidatura a Projecto Individual e/ou Curso Avançado de Artes Visuais.
Teachers: Camila Vale, Clara Jost, Gonçalo Robalo, Inês Sapeta Dias, Joana Silva Fernandes, Jorge Jácome, Lara Mesquita, Marcelo Costa, Marcelo Tavares, Marta Simões, Nádia Henriques, Nathalie Mansoux, Nuno Martinho, Paula Tomás Marques, Raúl Domingues, Rita Figueiredo, Salomón Peréz and guest teachers / Monitor: Bruno Mairos
Fee 10 x 240€ + 200€ (Enrolment) + 10,70€ (Insurance) (for enrolments until 15th September)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Program Level 1 of the full three-year program. An experimental attitude is encouraged in order to develop the student’s sensibility to sound and the moving image, in its more practical and technical aspects. The main objective of this level is the creation of a collective and individual portfolio that is both consistent and diversified, reflecting the various skills acquired and revealing an artistic dimension in the work.
Disciplines
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More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Enrolment form: https://arco.pt/site/download/pdf/108
Fee 10 x 240€ + 200€ (Enrolment) + 10,70€ (Insurance) (for enrolments until 15th September)
Admission Cinema/Moving Image 1 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Program Level 2 of the full three-year program. An increasingly more experimental attitude is encouraged, with a view to achieving progress in the authorial dimension of each student’s work. The year will be divided in 3 parts: in the first of these, special emphasis will be given to practical exercises developed out of the classroom and subsequently discussed in group sessions. These exercises aim at reflecting an adequate relation between point of view, cinematographic vocabulary and finalized object, thus preparing the students for the development of a personal project. The second part will be dedicated to the writing and discussion of the annual personal project and to its pre-production. Finally, the third part of the year will include the actual shooting, the discussion of the material thus obtained and the following of the montage until concluded. The course will benefit from the participation of guests who will contribute with their experience and skills to a widening of the students’ compositional horizon.
Disciplines
Notes More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments schedule
Fee 10 x 225€ + 200€ (Enrolment) + 10,70€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Admission Cinema/Moving Image 2 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Program Level 3 of the full three-year programme. A deepening of the personal dimension of the work is encouraged, with the objective of achieving a high level of autonomy. Development of a substantial personal project implying consistent objectives and means of production.
Disciplines
Notes With the completion of Cinema/Moving Image 3 the Certificate for the Full Programme in Cinema/Moving Image is issued. Options for further development: Individual Project and/or Advanced Course in the Visual Arts.
Attachments Schedule
Theoretical course: Cinema History(ies).
Date 16, 17, 23, 24 FEb and 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 30, 31 Mar 2027
Price 320€ + 32€ (Enrolement) + 2,50€ (insurance)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Schedule Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 14h to 17h
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
Cinema, beyond cinema, and cinema once more.
We will explore authors, trends and movements that have contributed to the legitimisation and evolution of the art of cinema, creating or reinventing its language and practices. By anchoring concepts, films and gestures in the history of cinema, we shall look at the early days of the 7th art — the first public screening of the Cinématographe, the journeys and shots of the Lumière brothers, the
revelation of a vision of the world and the possibilities of cinema — and at the early days of television — the involvement of filmmakers and artists in the
public television project, the critical and utopian visions of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Rossellini, and, on the other hand, the pioneers of video art, the subversion of the CRT (cathode ray tube),
challenging the balance between the roles of the sender and the receiver of images. We conclude with a reflection on the migrations of contemporary cinema towards
new forms and spaces of presentation.
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Price 200€ + 20€ + 1,80€ (Ins) - materials included
Schedule Wednesdays from 14h00 to 17h00
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes.
A practical introduction to the world of Super 8: filming, developing colour reversal film and projection of the results. Over five days, students will have direct contact with the entire technical and creative process, gaining the autonomy to continue working with this format independently.
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Cinema Workshop: the perspective of
Date 15 Feb to 5 Apr 2027
Price 220€ + 22€ (Insc) + 6€ (Seg)
Schedule Mondays from 14h to 17h
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes
This workshop aims to provide a space in which participants can discover the process of making a film. The aim is to develop the skills needed for autonomous and independent work, taking into account the resources available, with a view to eco-friendly film production. It offers a forum for sharing ideas, experiences and techniques for all stages of the process, from pre-production to editing.
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Price 250€ + 25€ (Enrol) + 6€ (Ins)
Schedule Tuesdays form 18h to 21h
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes.
Art Direction as a tool for thinking, rethinking, building and destroying characters, narratives and visual universes. Learning to occupy the place of listening and observation; searching for the point at which reality and fiction become symbiotic; transforming chaos, difficulty and randomness into productive forces. We'll talk about colour, composition, space, the body, style, visual saturation, rhythm and the concrete ways of transforming ideas into images and images into cohesive and expressive films, without forgetting the practical articulations with teams, contexts and budgets.
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Price 250€ + 25€ (Enrolment) + 6€ (Insurance)
Schedule Tuesdays from 14h00 to 17h00
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes.
This workshop is a sensory introduction to video editing. We explore the technical basics — importing, formats, cuts, export — and open up space for a creative perspective: editing as thought and as gesture.
We will feel the images and sounds as if they were alive. Meditate before editing, or dive into the material, improvise, listen to what each shot asks of us. Editing is about manipulating, breathing, repeating, cutting, splitting the screen, altering rhythms — like composing with images. Through film excerpts and quick exercises, we discover new ways to feeling and thinking about editing.
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Price 330€ + 33€ (Enrolment) + 6€ (Insurance)
Schedule Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On campus classes.
In this workshop we focus on exploring the documentary method as a specific strategy, one that is part of a broader cinematographic practice. Through a series of films, texts and practical exercises proposed and discussed in class, we will map some of the fundamental problems raised by the relationship that cinema establishes with reality, which is at the heart of documentary practice. In part, this mapping will be guided by the problems that participants will encounter when preparing their final task: producing a short film (with a maximum of 5 minutes) with a free theme.
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Workshop: Movement Image Devices - Projections and Optical Constructions
Date 6 Jan to 3 Feb 2027
Price 170€ + 17€ (Enrolment) + 1,80€ (Insurance)
Schedule Wednesdays from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes.
Optical devices and pre-cinematographic contraptions will be considered in lab context and from an archaeological point of view. Participants will themselves produce image analog apparatuses and reflect on their nature and effects. Through artistic practice and experimentation, the workshop will promote the discussion of some of the moving image’s specificities, namely the question of the image’s status as an object in space.
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Workshop: Author Cinema – Arquive and Montage
Date 18 Feb to 15 Apr 2027
Price 250€ + 25€ (Enrol) + 6€ (Ins)
Schedule Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes.
This workshop is oriented towards the production of a small film, using archive images and sounds: public and institutional, personal and from the family circle, graphic, photographic or in movement. By appropriating these images and sounds, extracting them from their original contexts, we will re-edit and re-compose them into a new filmic object.
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Cinema workshop: Image and appropriation
Date 22 Apr to 23 Jun 2027
Price 170€ + 17€ (Enrolment) + 6€ (Insurance)
Schedule Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes.
Through practical exercises, we will explore specific attributes of the images related to the mechanisms/maters that make them appear. The starting point is always the still, photographic image, and the main method is the appropriation that is made (with special emphasis) in videographic and drawing media. We aim to make participants aware of the distances that the appropriation process introduces within the variety of images at stake and their typology.
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