Alone, alone, all, all Alone or Together?

Ana da Palma

Jorge Delmar

Sapato 43

Avanca| Cinema 2013

Conferência Internacional Cinema

Alone, alone, all, all alone* or Together?

As social spaces diminish in the political architecture of the no-man’s-land, as television and computer screen numb our natural ability of social beings, as the web provides an account less, meanwhile possibly «endangered», number of film material, cinema in the community emerges as a possible.

In Porto (Portugal), a certain number of groups and associations reinvent lost social spaces through providing the sharing of films, thoughts and ideas. tool to rethink social spaces, relations and learning.

Introduction Screening of the World in the CommunitySocial Spaces Brief aspects to rethink learning theories

Alone, alone, all, all alone,Alone on a wide wide sea!

And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge in English Romantic Verse (1986 [1968]) London: Penguin Classics, «The rime of the ancient mariner», part IV , 163.

Introduction

• 2 key Principles: • Multidialogism • Citizen literacy

• 3 binomials:• Words/Images• Time/Space• Citizenship/World

• Indicators identified in multiple educational context:

• Memory • Expression• Resemblance

• Horizontality

Theoretical Clover

• Communities – 2 examples• Casa Viva• Gato Vadio

• Film screening – 2 informal educational dimensions

Educational topos

Screening the World in the Community (Porto)

Casa Viva, Praça Marquês de Pombal nº 167 Porto

Gato Vadio, Rua do Rosário nº 281 Porto

Metropolis

Alphaville

Fahrenheit 451

Stalker

These proposals independently of their theme represent an essential key for another kind of sharing, caring and learning. The kind that opposes to the contemporaneous tendency to isolation. Following the thoughts of Hannah Arendt, the public space is a space of freedom. Since public space is also a social space, we may say that the existence of the above cited spaces constitute spaces of freedom.

Social Spaces

Community interaction is essential in the normalprocess of learning starting at birth.

Since the dawn of humanity building up settlements has been a natural need.

Public spaces, as social spaces, are the privileged places to promote the informal construction of citizenship and must be spaces of freedom.

Cities became large clusters that promote contact between people and intensify interactions.

These aspirations must constantly be questioned: are the social spaces we inhabit spaces of freedom?

These aspirations must constantly be questioned: are the social spaces we inhabit spaces of freedom?

These aspirations must constantly be questioned: are the social spaces we inhabit spaces of freedom?

• People are stimulated

to stay at home or use

their free time in

entertainment and

consumerism centres.

• Consumerism has promoted the use of the automobile, at the expense of pedestrian mobility.

Regarding the growth of abstentions in Portuguese elections, we can deduce that the citizens are moved away from politics.

There is a sort of institutional rise of fear, implemented especially in the name of security, imposing a system of surveillance and control in public spaces.

Bearing all these evidences, it appears as an emergency to strengthen social spaces in order to promote the contact between people and the flow of ideas.

Alternative solutions must come from citizens will.

In this context, the communitarian cinema appears in social spaces as an action of sharing and an action of collective construction of knowledge.

Brief aspects to rethink learning theories

We considered social spaces as spaces of freedom in which we pointed out the film screening for the community, as one part of the solution regarding education and strengthening of social bounds and social spaces, as a topos to exercise our humanity, i.e, meeting, talking, sharing, discussing possible solutions, questioning, formulate possible answers and acting together.

FORMAL EDUCATIONIt is a widely adopted mode of education, confined to school

education or mainstream education, centred in

curricula and institutions, tests and quantification and hierarchical structure.

,.

NON FORMAL EDUCATION is a

structured and organized learning

system which is offered outside the

mainstream education.

INFORMAL EDUCATION is considered as a lifelong learning process. It is a spontaneous process of

stimulation that leads people to learn. It works through

conversation, the exploration and enlargement of

knowledge and the sharing of experience.

• 2 key Principles applied to cinema in the community

• Multidialogism • Citizen literacy

• 3 binomials:• Words/Images• Time/Space• Citizenship/World

• Indicators identified in multiple educational contexts:

• Memory • Expression• Resemblance• Horizontality

• Film screening – 2 informal educational dimensions

• Participation

•Interest based

•Curiosity based

•Community based

Theoretical Clover Educational dimensions

•Proposals

•Sharing knowledge

•Sharing interests

•Construct knowledge

•Questioning knowledge

•Stimulating knowledge

The End.

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