"Transformações" Cycle: In the course of every being's life, a multitude of transformations take place. In the world of literature, Gregor Samsa was transformed into an insect. In physics, Émilie du Châtelet revealed that energy can neither be created nor obliterated. In cinema, metamorphosis has served as both a narrative theme and a symbolic motif. This film series focuses on the different strands that have passed through us, as individuals, as well as a society, from the 1960s to the modern day. It screens five films that address such diverse transformations as the rural exodus, urban planning, gender (dis)equality, climate changes, migrations as well as dictatorial regimes, in order to emphasise that in the arts, as in life, nothing is lost, but everything is transformed.

Crimes of the Future
(David Cronenberg, 2022)
Age Rating: 16+
Film lenght: 1h47m

With presentation by Professor Viriato Soromenho Marques (School of Arts and Humanities).

Synopsis
As mankind gradually becomes adapted to a synthetic environment, the body is undergoing new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, a celebrity performance artist, showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin, a researcher at the National Organ Registry, compulsively tracks his movements, which is when a secretive group is uncovered... his mission? - To use Saul's reputation to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

Free admission, subject to capacity.

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