Black & White Festival
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The Black & White Audiovisual Festival is a Portuguese arts festival which takes place in April. It celebrates the black & white aesthetics in film, photography and sound. It's located at Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Centro Regional da Foz – through the Escola das Artes in Oporto, Portugal.
It is necessary to educate the audience to the black and white specificity, to avoid the prejudice that relates the black and white with fastidious and pretentious works.
or Carlos Zingaro
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About
The Black & White Audiovisual Festival intends to celebrate the black and white aesthetics as a specific, peculiar and unique kind of artistic expression. The image capture in the digital technology is born with colours but the artist's intuition often urges for the black and white production. This proves the newness and interest in an aesthetic that can only be communicated through black and white. Besides, the Black & White Audiovisual Festival also intends to promote the creation of soundscapes related with the black and white aesthetics.It is necessary to educate the audience to the black and white specificity, to avoid the prejudice that relates the black and white with fastidious and pretentious works.
History
The festival began in April 2004 with its first edition. It's a world renowned festival which receives everyone, amateurs and professionals alike, of the area of audiovisual art. Since it takes place at an Arts University, it counts on the support of the students for its projection and growth. Major personalities were featured in previous editions, such as Manoel de OliveiraManoel de Oliveira
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...
or Carlos Zingaro
Carlos Zingaro
Carlos Zíngaro is a Portuguese violinist and electronic musician active in free improvisation....
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