As part of its regular Guest Directors program, Cinemateca Portuguesa recently challenged João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata to present a significant portion of their own films in dialogue with others chosen by them. The result of this “carte blanche” is named “Tainted Love”, a program organized in partnership with BoCA, consisting of 25 screenings spanning two months (September and October), taking place in Lisbon and Madrid, where the Filmoteca Española will host an abridged version of the cycle.

The program -structured around a conversation between João Pedro and João Rui, but also between the two directors and the team of the Cinemateca Portuguesa-, consists of circa 60 titles and gives priority to films that have never been shown at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, or that have not been screened there for more than two decades. Among them is “Aventuras e Desventuras de Julieta Pipi ou o Processo Intrínseco Global Kafkiano de uma Vedeta Não Analisado por Freud”, the 1978 film by Óscar Alves and distributed by Queer Lisboa, which will be screened for the first time in the historic Portuguese venue.  

The screening is scheduled for next Thursday, October 9, at 7:30 pm, in the Luís de Pina Room, and will be complemented by the films “Alice Has Discovered the Napalm Bomb”, by Antoni Padrós (Spain, 1969, 25'), and “Mahjong”, by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata (Portugal, 2013, 33').

More info, here.