“Video Lucem” is back, from December 15th, for its 3rd edition. This year, the program will not take cinema-concerts to churches in the Algarve, but, instead, to even more alternative spaces, such as the Old Warehouse of Conserveiras do Sul, in Olhão, or the Military Quarter of Tavira. All without "losing the magic" and with big names to ensure the musical part.
In all, “Video Lucem” has six sessions scheduled: one per month, from December to May.
«This year, what we were looking for were more unlikely and alternative spaces to host the program. Our idea is to keep the cine-concerts, but with films that are either unfinished or partially lost. The partnership with the Diocese of Algarve was great, but we wanted to try new places so that we are not always connected to it», explained Sérgio Marques, one of the programmers, to Sul Informação.
As for the films in the program, they are films that were rarely shown. "Most of them went to the Cinemateca Portuguesa, which keeps the films in the archives," he added.
For example, for this year's premiere (December 15th, 21:30 pm) the film to be shown at the former Armazém da Conserveira do Sul, in Olhão, is “O Homem dos Olhos Tortos”, by Leitão de Barros and Luís Reis Santos, recorded in 1919, and that is unfinished.
The film is based on the serial “O Mistério da Rua Saraiva de Carvalho”, by Reinaldo Ferreira – better known as Repórter X -, published in the evening edition of the newspaper “O Século”, between 1917 and 1918.
In the musical part, the silent film will be accompanied by the Algarvean Júlio Resende and by Salvador Sobral, winner of the Eurovision in 2017.
The challenge launched to artists this year is, through music and even theatre, to fill the gaps in films that are unfinished or incomplete. The starting point is the script or original idea for each film.
«The idea is that there is almost a cinema-show experience here, through the creation of a new artistic product», Sérgio Marques told our newspaper.
From Olhão, “Video Lucem” leaves for the Palácio de Estoi, to show, on January 19, at 21 pm, three films: “Something's got to give”, by George Cukor, “Three days without God” (Bárbara Virgínia ) and “O Fado” by Maurice Mauriaud. The live musical accompaniment will be Filipe Raposo, Rita Maria and Ricardo Ribeiro.
As for the February session, it will be on the 23rd, at 21 pm, at the Cineteatro de São Brás de Alportel. On the screen, “L'Enfer”, by Henri George-Clouzot, “Charlotim and Clarinha” (Roberto Nobre) and “It's all true”, by the well-known Orson Welles, will be shown. In the musical part, the guests are Bruno Pernadas, Francisca Cortesão, Sérgio Nascimento, in addition to a group of musicians from São Brás.
“Heróis do Mar”, a film that has lost its sound, will be screened on March 15, at 21 pm, in the Auditorium of the Portimão Museum. Filmed in 30 by Fernando Garcia, the film is an authentic treasure of Portuguese cinema because it was rarely shown. The show will be a construction with collectives from Portimão, under the direction of Flávia Gusmão.
From Barlavento, “Video Lucem” goes to Alcoutim, for a very special session.
«We also want to make some revelations, so we're going to show a film, shot in Alcoutim, in the 40s, by the Algarvean Carlos Porfírio. The sound is lost, but we are going to have live sound design based on the original script of the film», explained Sérgio Marques to our newspaper. It is to point out on the agendas: April 12th, at 21:30 pm, at Espaço Guadiana.
This year's program ends with one of the most anticipated sessions, to be held at the Military Quarter of Tavira. Cristina Branco will follow live the films “Algarve”, by Amélia Borges Rodrigues, and “The River”, by Frank Borzage.
The Zero Museum, a space dedicated to Digital Art that will open in 2019, in Santa Catarina Fonte do Bispo, in the former agricultural cooperative, will do the honors of each of the sessions with small introductions to digital art.
In this edition, Video Lucem has partnered with Eating Algarve Food Tours, designing routes that will be made available in each of the territories. The proposal is for a kind of cultural and cinematographic script that includes dinner.
Each of these routes articulates the memory of cinema with the history, cultural heritage and gastronomy of the six locations where the sessions take place.
This will be a guided experience, in which, in addition to gastronomy, emblematic monuments and movie theaters in the localities, episodes and historical curiosities that are more directly related to the theme of the films on display will be highlighted.
The “Video Lucem” is once again organized by the Cineclube de Faro, with support from “365Algarve”.
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