24 SET | Cinema | Cinema Cycle about Macau, Lisbon Cinematheque

4 Perspectives on Macau in the 20th Century The four short films about Macau, made available by the Portuguese Cinematheque, outline a cinematic and ideological journey of the territory throughout the 20th century. Created between 1923 and 1974 by Manuel Antunes Amor, Ricardo Malheiro, and António Lopes Ribeiro, these works reveal different ways of looking at Macau, from the appreciation of urban and monumental progress in the early decades, to the exaltation of its historical, religious, and symbolic heritage as a meeting point between the West and the East. Since the appreciation of urban and monumental progress in the 1920s, through the exaltation of religious and historical heritage in the 1950s, to the record of institutional visits and the symbolic affirmation of the Portuguese presence in the East, they also highlight the use of cinema as an instrument of political and cultural affirmation, especially in the records of official visits and in the construction of a narrative of continuity between Portugal and the territory. Information: ca.cfc@scml.pt I +351 213 235 004 Maximum of 50 participants Casa Ásia – Francisco Capelo Collection Largo Trindade Coelho, 22, 1200-450 Lisbon (near Chiado)