ReFocus: The Films of Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra da Mata

Dr José Duarte teaches cinema at the School of Arts and Humanities at the Universidade de Lisboa, and is a researcher at ULICES (University Lisbon Centre for English Studies). Filipa Rosário is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon (CEC-UL). She co-edited the book New Approaches to Cinematic Space (2019), and is the author of O Trabalho do Actor no Cinema de John Cassavetes (2017).

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Nonconformities and Unconventional, Unreal Liberties: The Cinema of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata - José Duarte and Filipa RosárioSection 1. Queer (Dis)Placements, Exquisite Bodies1: Sculpting the Body, Sculpting History - Glòria Salvadó-Corretger and Fran Benavente 2: The Injury: On Pathosformel in João Pedro Rodrigues’s Work - Olivier Cheval3: Love is Stronger than Death: João Pedro Rodrigues’s Two Drifters and the Ghost(s) of Manoel de Oliveira - José BértoloSection 2. Cinematic Landscapes and Territories4: Phantoms, Drifters, and Desiring Saints: Landscapes and Soundscapes of Becoming-Queer in the Films of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata - Andrija Filipović5: Queer Metamorphoses and Displacements in the Cinema of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata - António Fernando Cascais6: Neo-Baroque Landscape: João Pedro Rodrigues’s Docu-Fiction and Ecosophical Kinships in The Ornithologist - Hyemin Kim 7: Failure, Erasure, and Oblivion in João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata’s Asian Trilogy: Red Dawn, The Last Time I Saw Macao, and Iec Long - Juan Antonio Suárez8: Space and Memory: The Window as Freeze-Frame - Carlos Alberto Carrilho and Rita FerrãoSection 3. Artistic Practices9: New Frontiers in Art Direction: João Guerra da Mata’s Contribution to Portuguese Cinema as a Case Study - Caterina Cucinotta10: Other Landscapes: On the Expanded Cinema of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata - Filipa RosárioSection 4. Interview with João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata11: Interview with João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata Julián Daniel Gutiérrez Albilla

[T]his volume boosts the international status and visibility of smaller players, allows for a larger audience to have access to the work of these two artists while, simultaneously, justifying the international acclaim they have already earned. While the specificities of working and living in a particular small nation are made apparent throughout the essay selection, so is the transnationality of the stories told. Overall, the volume highlights the transformative input of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata in the Portuguese cinematic landscape.