On May 22 and 23, ESAD (Escola Superior de Artes e Design), in Caldas da Rainha, will host filarch 25, an international conference dedicated to architecture and cinema.
Susana Viegas, the Principal Investigator at FILM AND DEATH, will give the opening keynote presentation: "Do Cemitério dos Inocentes ao cinema: a atualidade das Danças Macabras".
In this presentation, she will explore how the medieval allegory of the Danse Macabre, which is thought to have appeared in the Lower Middle Ages, around 1424-1425, in the exterior wall paintings of the Holy Innocents' Cemetery in Paris, is still relevant, as it reflects an awareness of human mortality. The film “Danças Macabras, Esqueletos e Outras Fantasias” (2019), by Rita Azevedo Gomes, Pierre Léon and Jean Louis Schefer, takes up this theme, linking it to cinema and architecture as contemporary ways of thinking about death and transience. In doing so, it updates allegory as a tool for cultural and visual reflection.
📷 Danças Macabras, Esqueletos e Outras Fantasias [2019], by Rita Azevedo Gomes, Pierre Léon e Jean Louis Schefer
