About

Comments: João Doce (music therapist and participant in the Quinta de Paramos project)

Synopsis: ARTEFACOS is a documentary that focuses on community-based art intervention at Quinta de Paramos (Espinho, Portugal) between 2012 and 2015. In addition to an important record for future memory, this documentary aims to be a pedagogical tool and contribute to the production of knowledge through the validation of this intervention methodology. ARTEFACTS was directed by Pedro Cruz, screenplay, coordination and narration by Gisela Borges and João Doce. It was produced by the City Council of Espinho.

ParaDocma, of PARAdigm, of DOCumentary and DOgMA, is an initiative that brings together several groups and local organisations, an Itinerant Cinema Series that will journey through the city of Coimbra with the aim of promoting the “study of the home”, in this case, producing dialogue on pressing ecological issues in various spaces of the city of Coimbra. It is a travelling event because it intends to disseminate the associative spaces and the public spaces of the city to the population and, thus, to know the local material and immaterial resources.

This is the third session of the second edition of ParaDocma, an initiative jointly organised by Casa da Esquina, the Coimbra em Transição (CeT) Association, Cine Eco Seia and the Ecology and Society Workshop of theCentre for Social Studies/UC with other local organisations. We have the privilege of having Cine Eco Seia, the main environmental film festival in Portugal, as a partner and having free screening rights to award-winning films in Coimbra. In this edition, the sessions will be mainly at Casa da Esquina and between January and June 2019 there will be at least two sessions in two other venues, with at least one outdoor session.