FULL PROGRAM CINEMA / MOVING IMAGE 2024/2025
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: Camila Vale, Gonçalo Robalo, Inês Oliveira, Inês Sapeta Dias, Leonardo Simões, Leonor Noivo, Flávia Gusmão, Joana Cunha Ferreira, Marcelo Costa,Marta Simões, Marcelo Tavares, Miguel Tavares, Nuno Martinho, Nuno Saraiva, Ricardo Guerreiro, and Guest Teachers /Assistants: Bruno Mairos
Fee 10 x 215€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Program Level 1 of the full three-year programme. An experimental attitude is encouraged in order to develop the student’s sensibility to 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
Notes
More information in the Student Guide:https://arco.pt/site/en/student-guide/enrolment-and-fees
Attachments schedule
Fee 10 x 210€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (Insurance) (for enrolments up to 15th september)
Admission Cinema/Moving Image 1 or equivalent training. Portfolio presentation. Interview.
Program Level 2 of the full three-year programme. 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 210€ + 150€ (Enrolment) + 4,50€ (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.
All completed individual films will be able to receive funding through the support granted under the "Training of Students in the Field of Cinema and Audiovisual" competition awarded by ICA for the three-year period 2023-2026.
The department will create the conditions for a post-curricular internship in institutions of the cultural sector and/or of cinematographic production, so as to encourage a professional experience of the students concluding this training cycle.
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 17, 20, 24 and 27 Feb;10, 11, 13,17, 20, 24, 31 Mar;
Price 320€ + 32€ (Enrolement) + 2,50€ (insurance)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Schedule Tuesdays from 18h00 to 21h00, Thursdays 14h to 17h
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
Mapping of Cinema History through the study of filmmakers, films, artistic currents or movements which, as an answer to their contemporary reality or as a reaction to technological innovation, questioned cinematographic language, deviated from the canon or reinvented the practice and the poetics of the movement image.
Teachers
Price 110€ + 11€ (Insc) + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule Mondays from 14h30 to 17h
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
The workshop aims at promoting an effective collaboration between students whose sensibility is closer to the cinema and others whose sensibility is closer to the discipline of illustration. The confrontation between both languages should give way to a schematic representation, in the form of sequential images, of the plot and rhythm of a film project.
Teachers
Price 280€ + 28€ (Enrolment) +2,50€ (Insurance)
Schedule Fridays from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On-premise 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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Teachers
Price 120€ + 12€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance)
Schedule 5ª feira das 18h00 às 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On-premise classes.
Practical introduction to video editing and to its main aspects: importing, resolutions, formats, cuts, exporting. Analysis of film excerpts: the energy in the cuts and plans.
Teachers
Workshop: Movement Image Devices - Projections and Optical Constructions
Date 2 Jan to 6 Feb 2025
Price 180€ + 18€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (Insurance)
Schedule Thursday from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On-premise 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 movement image’s specificities, namely the question of the image’s status as an object in space.
Teachers
Super 8mm film Workshop – reversible black and white film.
Date 18, 25 Jan nd 1, 8 Feb 2025
Price 170€ + 0,75€ (Ins) - materials included
Schedule Saturdays from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program Introduction to the history of Super 8mm film and to its lab techniques. Practical exercises in class exploring the various possibilities of this filmic tool. Films will be developed by the students in the lab and will be screened in class at the end of the course.
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Workshop: Author Cinema – Arquive and Montage
Date 20 Feb to 10 Apr 2025
Price 240€ + 24€ (Enrol) + 2,50€ (Ins)
Schedule Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On-premise 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.
Teachers
SATURDAYS Cinema Workshop: Introduction to Montage
Date 5, 12 Apr e 3, 10 May 2025
Price 120€ + 0,75€ (Insurance)
Schedule Saturdays from 10am to 1pm
Type occasional
Program Viewing of film excerpts. Introduction to the editing program (import, alignment, cutting, format and export). Group editing exercises using clips from a movie, paying special attention to the idea of continuity. The workshop ends with the screening of the results.
Teachers
SATURDAYS Cinema/Moving Image. Workshop: Soundscapes in Expanded Cinema
Date 17, 24, 31 May and 7 Jun 2025
Price 120€ + 0,75€ (Insurance)
Schedule Saturdays from 10am to 1pm
Type occasional
Program
An introduction to sound art in cinema.
This workshop investigates sound as an autonomous artistic element in cinema and visual arts.
Through active listening, we will explore its narrative power and how it can redefine the cinematic experience.
We will explore field recording techniques, listening practices and sound compositions.
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