Cinema at the Museum - A Cidade do Mortos (The City of the Dead), Sérgio Tréfaut
Cinema
A Cidade do Mortos (The City of the Dead) (62 min.) - Sérgio Tréfaut
November 4, at 4:00 pm
The City of the Dead, in Cairo, is the biggest necropolis in the world. One million inhabitants live there: in tombs or in the buildings that have grown up around the tombs. The cemetery has everything: bakeries, coffee shops, schools for the children, puppet theatres... The City of the Dead stretches along a motorway for over 10 kilometres, but it feels like a small village, with mothers wanting to marry off their daughters, boys chasing the girls around, neighbours arguing. Prepared and filmed over five years (2004-2009), this film aims to portray the invisible soul of this cemetery.
Cinema at the Museum
Documentary Series
The “ruins”, by Manuel Mozos, pave the way for a cycle of four films that do not leave us indifferent to issues such as decay and abandonment. The films are in all cases real testimonies that denounce erosion and oblivion. They fearlessly face the facts, documenting them, even showing with dignity painful circumstances and processes of transformation.
The looks are political and simultaneously individual and aesthetic. More than that, they are intimate confrontations with things that disappear and we need to understand who we are and where we are.
In collaboration with Zero em Comportamento
Onsite
04 Nov
Onsite 04 Nov
ACCESS
Free admission
DURATION
62 minutes
TARGET-AUDIENCE
+14 years old
PARTICIPATION
Advance booking required
More information to info@museudodinheiro.pt or +351 213 213 240
A Cidade do Mortos (The City of the Dead) (62 min.) - Sérgio Tréfaut
November 4, at 4:00 pm
The City of the Dead, in Cairo, is the biggest necropolis in the world. One million inhabitants live there: in tombs or in the buildings that have grown up around the tombs. The cemetery has everything: bakeries, coffee shops, schools for the children, puppet theatres... The City of the Dead stretches along a motorway for over 10 kilometres, but it feels like a small village, with mothers wanting to marry off their daughters, boys chasing the girls around, neighbours arguing. Prepared and filmed over five years (2004-2009), this film aims to portray the invisible soul of this cemetery.
Cinema at the Museum
Documentary Series
The “ruins”, by Manuel Mozos, pave the way for a cycle of four films that do not leave us indifferent to issues such as decay and abandonment. The films are in all cases real testimonies that denounce erosion and oblivion. They fearlessly face the facts, documenting them, even showing with dignity painful circumstances and processes of transformation.
The looks are political and simultaneously individual and aesthetic. More than that, they are intimate confrontations with things that disappear and we need to understand who we are and where we are.
In collaboration with Zero em Comportamento
Onsite
04 Nov
ACCESS
Free admission
DURATION
62 minutes
TARGET-AUDIENCE
+14 years old
PARTICIPATION
Advance booking required
More information to info@museudodinheiro.pt or +351 213 213 240