The film “A (im)permanência do gesto” (The (im)permanence of the Gesture) results from the author’s participation as a speaker at the international conference Souls of Stone. Tumular Sculpture: From Creation to Musealisation, held in November 2017. The film, which will be screened during the closing session of the Intervening in Memory. Modern era restorations of medieval funerary monuments (15th-20th centuries) International Conference, to be held in the Faculty of Fine Arts Grand Auditorium at the University of Lisbon, on 26 September 2019 at 6pm, has already been publicly presented on three occasions: at the DocLisbon Film Festival (24-10-2018); at the opening of the CINENOVA Interuniversity Film Festival (21-02-2019); and at the Paris delegation of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (27-05-2019). The Conference Scientific and Organising Committee would hereby invite the entire academic and student community to participate in this event.

A (im)permanência do gesto / The (Im)permanence of the Gesture, 2018, vídeo, 26’40’’, 
de Manuel Botelho
Direction, text, photographic images: Manuel Botelho
Video recording: Miguel Nabinho
Sound: Miguel Nabinho, Fernando Fadigas
Editing: Fernando Fadigas
Translation: David Prescott
Subtitling: Tiago Jordão, Ingreme

The event program can be consulted here.