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Friday, Nov 14, 2025
7 PM (79 mins)
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BAMPFA
Marta Mateus: Poetry, Portraiture, and Place
In Conversation
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Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Marta Mateus’s first film is a cinematic expression of the power of traditional storytelling—the “legends, songs and stories of the Alentejo . . . known and said by heart” she heard as a child. Made with children and workers from the region, Barbs, Wastelands reflects the struggle for agrarian reform. It screens with the first film of João César Monteiro, a portrait of the poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Filmed with her children in Portugal’s sunny Algarve, it has the spontaneous quality of a home movie. António Reis’s documentary Jaime tells the story of Jaime Fernandes, who became an artist after being admitted to a mental institution. Discussing the film, Reis told Monteiro in an interview, “I’d be happy if the film was considered just as a pure work of film archeology, since most of his work has disappeared.”
—Kate MacKay
Films in this Screening
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
João César Monteiro, Portugal, 1969
FILM DETAILS
Cinematographer
- Abel Escoto
Language
- Portuguese
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 17 mins
source
- Cinema Guild
Jaime
António Reis, Portugal, 1974
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- António Reis
- Margarida Cordeiro
Cinematographer
- Acácio de Almeida
Language
- Portuguese
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 37 mins
source
- Cinemateca Portuguesa
Barbs, Wastelands
Marta Mateus, Portugal, 2017
FEATURING
Maria Clara Madeira
Gonçalo Prudêncio
Maria Catarina Sapata
José Codices
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Marta Mateus
Cinematographer
- Hugo Azevedo
Language
- Portuguese
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 25 mins
source
- Marta Mateus
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