FULL PROGRAM CINEMA / MOVING IMAGE 2025/2026
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, Clara Jost, Flávia Gusmão, Gonçalo Robalo, Inês Oliveira, Inês Sapeta Dias, Joana Silva Fernandes, Jorge Jácome, Marcelo Costa, Marcelo Tavares, Nathalie Mansoux, Nuno Martinho, Nuno Saraiva, Paula Tomás Marques, Rita Figueiredo e Professores convidados / Monitores: Bruno Mairos
Fee 10 x 240€ + 200€ (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 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.
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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
Attachments schedule
Fee 10 x 225€ + 200€ (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 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) + 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 2023-2025.
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
Super 8mm film Workshop – reversible black and white film.
Date 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 Oct 2025
Price 200€ + 20€ + 0,75€ (Ins) - materials included
Schedule Monday to Friday from 10h to 13h
Type occasional
Program
On-campus classes.
Shooting in super 8 film in the “cadavre exquis” mode. Brief theoretical introduction to the basic principles of photochemistry and notes on the history of homemade/artistic laboratories and their present-day relevance. Introduction to 8mm film developing techniques - black and white film reversal. Transferring the developed films to digital format. Analysis of the workshop’s results.
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Theoretical course: Cinema History(ies).
Date 23 e 26 Feb and 2, 5 ,9, 12 ,16 ,19, 23, 26 Mar 2026
Price 320€ + 32€ (Enrolement) + 2,50€ (insurance)
Admission No requirements. By order of enrolment.
Schedule Tuesdays and Thursdays from 14h to 17h
Type occasional
Program
On-campus 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.
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Price 120€ + 12€ (Insc) + 0,75€ (ins)
Schedule Mondays from 18h00 to 20h30
Type occasional
Program
On-campus 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.
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Price 350€ + 35€ (Enrolment) +2,50€ (Insurance)
Schedule Thursdays from 18h00 to 21h00
Type occasional
Program
On campus classes.
In this workshop, we will take the landscape and the territory surrounding this school as our central focus. From there, we will carry out two types of exercises or exploratory journeys. One will take place without leaving the classroom: at the center of each session will be the viewing and discussion of films that will expose some of the most powerful images and issues related to the landscape of Beato and Marvila. The other exercise is to be developed outside of class: a series of exercises encouraging the observation and filmed mapping of a territory (physical, emotional, or otherwise), put in relation to that of the school. In both instances, we will try to explore and understand how and to what extent cinema transforms the reality it touches.
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Price 170€ + 17€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (Insurance)
Schedule Tuesdays from 18h00 to 21h00
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 feel and think about editing.
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Workshop: Movement Image Devices - Projections and Optical Constructions
Date 7 Jan to 11 Feb 2026
Price 190€ + 19€ (Enrolment) + 2,50€ (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 26 Feb to 23 Apr 2026
Price 250€ + 25€ (Enrol) + 2,50€ (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 30 Apr to 28 May 2026
Price 170€ + 17€ (Enrolment) + 0,75€ (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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