The new program highlights the works in another collective and immersive exhibition space
By Fabio Rubira
The Cinema da USP (Cinusp) exhibits free until June 25 the film showcase Da Telinha pra Telona, with a selection of productions that marked the history of world TV.
In addition to the traditional feature film sessions, the program includes episodes, complete series and short films. And also an unprecedented format: TV Cinusp, with television series chosen for screening on the big screen of the cinema.
“That there are aesthetic differences between works made for TV and for cinema is evident”, emphasizes the presentation of the exhibition. “But these differences do not mean that audiovisual products made for television are of less importance than cinema. The dichotomy between the two vehicles is increasingly being overcome, they have long influenced each other, incorporating language elements from one and the other, but with essentially disparate production structures “, emphasizes the curatorship.
The program includes the Soviet miniseries “Um Milagre Ordinário“, which had both episodes broadcast in 1978. “Cathy Come Home” is one of British filmmaker Ken Loach’s first films, shown in 1966 as part of a weekly BBC program. From 1975, “Vida Nua” highlights the biography of a pioneer of the gay cause in the UK, played by John Hurt, with prime-time broadcast on ITV, one of the few private broadcasters in the country. The six episodes of the miniseries “Cenas de um Casamento“, directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1973, will be shown in full.
The TV series “Twin Peaks“, with the script around the murder of young Laura Palmer, is also among the highlights, along with “Capitu“, a miniseries based on the novel Dom Casmurro, by Machado de Assis, shown on TV Globo in 2008.
TV Cinusp will have two sessions: “O mistério está no ar“, with television works that appeal to the mysterious and the fantastic, such as “Twilight Zone” and “Doctor Who”, and “Senta que lá vem risada“, with successful sitcoms like “I Love Lucy” and contemporary comedies like “A Grande Família” and “Atlanta”.
The program also includes debates with USP professors Christian Ernst, Esther Hamburger and Fábio de Souza.
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Service
The sessions of Da Telinha pra Telona, free and open to the general public, are held in the new room at the Camargo Guarnieri Amphitheater, on the Butantã campus of USP, on the west side, from Monday to Friday at 4 and 7 pm. And at the Centro Maria Antonia, in Vila Buarque, central region of the capital, on Saturdays and Sundays at 4 and 6 pm.
The complete daily schedule can be found at www.usp.br/cinusp.
Translated by: Lara Yoshime Shizuko Fukushima