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Politics of Sci-Fi

Air Conditioner, Fradique, 2020

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Whenever there is a collapse or corruption of the time, space and culture that define us, and to which we belong, we inevitably begin to imagine other possible futures. Throughout history, this has been underpinned by the need to escape and the fight for survival. Perhaps the most magical aspect of this urgent need to fictionalise alternative forms of existence is the fact that, through it and its link with the power of technological inventiveness, it allows us to read and criticise the raw reality around us.

Batalha’s first thematic programme is dedicated to discussion of the way in which the science fiction genre has absorbed key political and cultural debates of the 20th century and the contemporary era. In this cycle, organized by subthemes — relating to subalternity, control, diasporic movements, ecology and nuclear fears — different cinematic practices read human concerns, through films that present themselves as political commentary, tools of struggle and gestures that claim “preferred futures”.

By combining contemporary works with classic films, the programme focuses on the idea that time itself may be mere fiction in the construction of societies.

Curated by Ana David and Guilherme Blanc

Full programme

Sidereal Love

The New Sun, Agnieszka Polska, 2017, 12’
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Robert Wise, 1951, 92’

Dictatorships of Desire

A Confederação — O Povo é que Faz a História, Luís Galvão Teles, 1978, 107’

Melancholias of Extinction

Silent Running, Douglas Trumbull, 1972, 89’

The Great Silence, Jennifer Allora e Guillermo Calzadilla, 2016, 16’

Flores, Jorge Jácome, 2017, 27’

Nuclear Tensions

The War Game, Peter Watkins, 1966, 48’

Letters from a Dead Man, Konstantin Lopushansky, 1986, 87’

The Subaltern Voice

Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden, 1983, 80’

John & Jane, Ashim Ahluwalia, 2005, 79’

Ar Condicionado, Fradique, 2020, 72’

Traces of Disappearance

Party on the CAPS, Meriem Bennani, 2018, 25’

At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade into Each Other, Basel Abbas e Ruanne Abou-Rahme, 2019, 11’


Space Is the Place

Space Is the Place, John Coney, 1974, 85’

The Last Angel of History, John Akomfrah, 1996, 45’

1968 < 2018 > 2068, Keisha Rae Whitherspoon, 2018, 8’

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David Pinheiro Vicente

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Peter Watkins

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1993
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1998
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2020
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Terry Gilliam

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1985
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2021
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Arte

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Walter Ruttmann

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Silent Running

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Douglas Trumbull

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1972
Where the Summer Goes (Chapters on Youth)

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David Pinheiro Vicente

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2018
Kirikou and the Sorceress

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Michel Ocelot

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1998
35 Shots of Rum

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Arte

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2008
The Thousand-Year Plan

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Agnieszka Polska

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2021
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Arte

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2009
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David Pinheiro Vicente

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2017
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Manuel Mozos

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José Álvaro Morais

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1987
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Bernard Herrmann

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Francis Boespflug

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Guy Lecorne

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1958
Chocolat

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Arte

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1988
Space is the Place

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John Coney

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1974

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,

Elso Roque

,

2023
Europa Europa

,

Agnieszka Holland

,

1990
The Day the Earth Stood Still

,

Jennifer Allora

,

1951
Simão

,

David Pinheiro Vicente

,

2016
Wallace and Gromit — A Grand Day Out

,

Nick Park

,

1989
High Life

,

Arte

,

2018
Gloria

,

Manuela Viegas

,

1999
Tall Stories

,

Karel Zeman

,

1987
Andre Valente

,

Catarina Ruivo

,

2004
How Do I Love Thee

,

Jeanne Waltz

,

1998
Barehanded

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2016
In Case of Fire

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2019
When We Dead Awaken

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2022
My Little Planet

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2016
The Great Silence

,

Georges Pratt

,

2016
Man No Run

,

Arte

,

1989
Trouble Every Day

,

Arte

,

2001
A Trip to the Moon

,

Pedro Henrique

,

1902
Nénette and Boni

,

Arte

,

1996
Friday Night

,

Arte

,

2002
The New Sun

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2017
Flores

,

Jorge Jácome

,

2017
The War Game

,

Peter Watkins

,

1965
I Can't Sleep

,

Arte

,

1993
Beau Travail

,

Arte

,

1998
The Intruder

,

Arte

,

2004
What the Sun Has Seen

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2017
At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade into Each Other

,

Basel Abbas

,

2019
Stars at Noon

,

Arte

,

2022
1968 < 2018 > 2068

,

Keisha Rae Witherspoon

,

2018
Kicking the Clouds

,

Sky Hopinka

,

2021
Born in Flames

,

Catarina Ruivo

,

1983
Bastards

,

Arte

,

2013
Ste. Anne

,

Rhayne Vermette

,

2021
Daybreak

,

Gabriel Abrantes

,

1939
Maat Means Land

,

Fox Maxy

,

2020
O Pesadelo do António Maria

,

Joaquim Guerreiro

,

1923
Maɬni — Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore

,

Sky Hopinka

,

2020
Party on the CAPS

,

Meriem Bennani

,

2018
Brazil

,

Terry Gilliam

,

1985
Air Conditioner

,

Fradique

,

2020
Nosferasta: First Bite

,

Youssou N'Dour

,

2021
Both Sides of the Blade

,

Arte

,

2022
Towards Mathilde

,

Arte

,

2005
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

,

Walter Ruttmann

,

1927
Silent Running

,

Douglas Trumbull

,

1972
Where the Summer Goes (Chapters on Youth)

,

David Pinheiro Vicente

,

2018
Kirikou and the Sorceress

,

Michel Ocelot

,

1998
35 Shots of Rum

,

Arte

,

2008
The Thousand-Year Plan

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2021
White Material

,

Arte

,

2009
Letters from a Dead Man

,

Konstantin Lopushansky

,

1986
The Lamb of God

,

David Pinheiro Vicente

,

2020
Let the Sunshine In

,

Arte

,

2017
Xavier

,

Manuel Mozos

,

1992
The Jester

,

José Álvaro Morais

,

1987
John & Jane

,

Bernard Herrmann

,

2005
The Confederation — The People Make History

,

Francis Boespflug

,

1978
Fishing the Moon from the Pool

,

Zhou Kequin

,

1982
The Happiest Thought

,

Agnieszka Polska

,

2019
Supa Modo

,

Sky Hopinka

,

2018
No Fear, No Die

,

Arte

,

1990
Blindman’s Buff

,

Tomás Paula Marques

,

2021
The Last Angel of History

,

Tindersticks

,

1995
Invention for Destruction

,

Guy Lecorne

,

1958
Chocolat

,

Arte

,

1988
Space is the Place

,

John Coney

,

1974

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