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Utopic Show

2016

Utopic Show tells the story of a show that came out of the desire to combine languages ​​and reasons that tend to be at odds.

In the hours leading up to the premiere, rehearsals and reflections are made on the relationship between science, art and social transformation. What's behind a stage that defies the boundaries between popular and erudite culture, university and street narratives, expressions from the periphery and the center? The show is driven by the utopias of horizontality and complementarity of knowledge, equality in difference, the transformation of power relations into shared authority relations. A fundamental moment of the project Alice, Espelhos Estranhos Lições Imprevistas of the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, the show "Alice in the city: sciences, social, rap and more" is consistent with the proposal of Epistemologies of the South and bets on the realization of a ecology of knowledge, valuing knowledge that arises from social struggles and promoting a broader understanding of the world, without losing sight of the horizon of social transformation.

By  Pedro Neves
Documentary Short
2016
Portugal / 34 min.
Color, 4K
TV, VOD, and digital platforms

Filmin Portugal

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Exhibitions

Teatro da Cerca de São Bernardo, Coimbra, Portugal.

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Credits

Direction

Pedro Neves

Writing

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Pedro Neves and Sara Araújo

Coordination

Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Sara Araujo

Photography

Pedro Neves and Miguel Proença

Assistant Director

António Pedrosa

Editing

Pedro Neves

Sound

João Ricardo

Production Assistants

Rita Kacia Oliveira and José Manuel Pinheiro

Post-production and Production

Red Desert

Support

CES and Projecto Alice

Interventions

Abyssal Line Band, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Favela 31, Frankão – The Gringo is me, Hezbo MC, Jackson Soul Jah, José Craveiro, LBC Soldjah, Mick Mengucci, Mynda Guevara, Nuno Piteira, Raquel Lima and Raul Alvares

Thanks

André Queda, Inês Elias, Lassalete Paiva, Peter Dias da Silva, Regina Bezerra, Academic Theater of Gil Vicente and Town Hall of Vila Nova de Famalicao

Director’s notes

Utopic Show

By  Pedro Neves
Portugal
Color, 4K