{"id":4591,"date":"2025-07-25T15:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/?post_type=event&#038;p=4591"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:41:04","slug":"cinema-no-patio-on-falling-by-laura-carreira","status":"publish","type":[22],"link":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/2025\/cinema-no-patio-on-falling-by-laura-carreira\/","title":{"rendered":"cinema no p\u00e1tio: on falling, by laura carreira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thursdays in August are once again cinema nights in gnration&#8217;s courtyard. In 2025, this cycle programmed by director Eduardo Brito presents four films \u2014 <em>Peeping Tom<\/em> (7 August), <em>On Falling<\/em> (14 August), <em>24 Frames<\/em> (21 August) and <em>Cinco da Tarde<\/em> (28 August).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>on falling<\/em><br \/>\nby laura carreira<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2024 \u00b7 Portugal, United Kingdom \u00b7 104\u2019 \u00b7 M\/12<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aurora is a Portuguese worker in an e-commerce warehouse in Glasgow. Trapped between her workplace and a shared flat, she dreams of escaping this life of slave wages and social alienation and finding meaning in her life. Marked by the blues and greys of industrial spaces, the persistent gaze of On Falling shows how workers&#8217; lives are insignificant in the face of greater economic forces and paints an intimate and clear portrait of contemporary financial and social precariousness.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hMlBMSdU7IY?si=yZ3FwyXygCru8BSm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhile representing reality, cinema encompasses the real, the unreal, the present, the lived experience, memory and dreams, on an identical and common mental level.\u201d Edgar Morin&#8217;s reflection in <em>Cinema or the Imaginary Man<\/em> builds bridges to the four proposals of Cinema no P\u00e1tio 2025: starting with <em>Peeping Tom<\/em>, Michael Powell&#8217;s magnum opus (one of several), a film about filming, a game of mirrors between seeing and peeping, trauma and desire, suspense and paranoia. Next comes Laura Carreira, a Portuguese filmmaker based in Scotland, who shows us the solitude and alienating work of today in <em>On Falling<\/em>, a dazzling first work, recognised in San Sebasti\u00e1n with the Silver Shell. The following week, it&#8217;s time for Abbas Kiarostami&#8217;s <em>24 Frames<\/em>: a drift through the photographic matrix of cinema and the illusion of movement at 24 frames per second \u2014 in this case, each lasting four and a half minutes. And finally, from minutes to hours: <em>Cinco da Tarde<\/em>, by Eduardo Nunes, between memory and mourning, a delicate portrait of melancholy and the power of small gestures.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2014 Eduardo Brito<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>support\u00a0<\/strong>portuguese republic &#8211; culture \/ general direction of the arts. rtcp &#8211; network of portuguese theaters and cinemas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursdays in August are once again cinema nights in gnration&#8217;s courtyard. In 2025, this cycle programmed by director Eduardo Brito presents four films \u2014 Peeping Tom (7 August), On Falling (14 August), 24 Frames (21 August) and Cinco da Tarde (28 August). on falling by laura carreira 2024 \u00b7 Portugal, United Kingdom \u00b7 104\u2019 \u00b7 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/2025\/cinema-no-patio-on-falling-by-laura-carreira\/\" title=\"Learn More\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4975,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-4591","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-cinema"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4591\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}