Without taking place in 2020, due to the covid-19 pandemic, the return of the festival dedicated to architecture takes place in the first days of June, with the theme "Bodies Out Of Space".
"It is an excursion about the social construction of the space connected to a thread that circulates within its own domination narratives. Narratives also about identity that, many times, is removed or forced to represent our body", can be read in the presentation .
From this reflection, the note adds, a "willingness to think actively about responsibility as spectators" is born through a "labyrinth of inequalities as direct descendants of the exploration of space and bodies".
In addition to the official and competitive selection, the event focuses on Angola, a country where "the confluence of times and regimes is visible in its architecture and in its collective memory", with the curatorship of journalist, writer and producer Marta Lança.
The event starts with the exhibition of "Para Lá dos Meus Passos", by Kamy Lara and Paula Agostinho, following five dancers from different regions of the Angolan territory.
The program includes the debut in the "Body-Buildings" room, by the Portuguese Henrique Pina, which crosses dance, architecture and cinema in the look for "six choreographic portraits in six different Portuguese locations".
Tânia Carvalho, Vera Mantero, Olga Roriz, Paulo Ribeiro, Victor Hugo Pontes and Jonas & Lander cross the dance with the architecture of Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto Moura, Aires Mateus, João Luís Carrilho da Graça and João Mendes Ribeiro.
Altogether, there are 36 films from more than a dozen different countries, with the full schedule announced soon.
Documentaries, fiction films, animation and experimental works will be included in the selection, always with the mark of contemporary architecture, with prizes awarded for New Talents, Best Fiction, Best Experimental Film and the Audience Award.
Alongside cinematographic programming, the Cinema São Jorge café receives a series of debates entitled "África Habitat", organized in partnership with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, and the exhibition of installations by Angolans Lino Damião and Nelo Teixeira.
Afonso Quintã also organizes an exhibition on Angola's film theaters, based on material from the Cine-studio of Namibe, by architect José Botelho Pereira.
Conceived by Do You Mean Architecture and the Institute, Arquiteturas is a coproduction with EGEAC and Cinema São Jorge, with several other partners and the support of the Embassy of Angola.
