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Series ‘Human Rights & Latin America: Films in Dialogue’
22 May, 6 pm: Ônibus 174 [Bus 174] (2002), by José Padilha and Felipe Lacerda (122’)
Introduced by guest speaker Dr. Luciana Martins (Birkbeck College)
In Portuguese (with English subtitles). Senate House. Free Entrance. All Welcome.
Bus 174 draws on a tragic event that took place in June of 2000. Sandro do Nascimento, a young homeless, attempted to rob a bus in a wealthy Rio de Janeiro neighborhood and ended up taking the passengers as hostages. The bus was then surrounded by cops, a SWAT team and reporters. Nevertheless, it faced a tragic end. Far from the moralist and sensationalist tone of mass media, this documentary explores the social, political and economic conditions that made such catastrophic event possible. Unlike most of the press that covered the event, this extraordinary film does not intent to judge but rather to understand the subjects behind violent acts as well as the society that has generated them. One thing is certain: spectators will leave the room not knowing for sure who was the victim here and who the perpetrator.
Dr. Luciana Martins is Senior Lecturer in Luso-Brazilian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London and Director of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cilavs/>. In 2010, she participated as a Jury member of the 9th Discovery Latin American Film Festival<http://www.discoveringlatinamerica.com/film-home.html> in London and was recently interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 series ‘The Invention of Brazil’. Her latest book on the Brazilian image world in the early 20th century is entitled Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil<http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719089916> (Manchester University Press, 2013).
The series ‘Human Rights & Latin America. Films in Dialogue’ invites both the academic community and the general public to reflect on contemporary discourses of Human Rights in Latin America through the gaze of renowned filmmakers of the region. Some of the topics addressed by the screenings are: democracy, indigenous population, economical inequality, race, gender and sexual slavery. Each film is introduced by a guest speaker and followed by an open debate with the audience.
Coordination and facilitation: Dr. Cecilia Sosa (University of East London/ Institute of Latin American Studies) and Dr. Jordana Blejmar (Institute of Modern Languages Research).
22 May, 6 pm, Senate House, the Senate Room (1st floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Dr. J. Blejmar
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet St.
London WC1E 7HU.
Room ST 280 (Stewart House)
Tel: 020 7862 8964
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