The Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema — organised by the School of Arts and the Centre for Research in Science and Technology of the Arts of Universidade Católica Portuguesa — is an advanced course on new practices in cinema and the visual arts, combining critical thinking and contact with creators of contemporary cinema and art. The 2025 edition has the theme of Technology/Transformation, looking at the experimental practices that shaped the avant-gardes of the 1960s-1980s in the contemporary context. In addition to daily workshops, the Summer School includes a public programme made up of film screenings, conferences and exhibitions. Batalha is hosting one of these screenings, presenting a selection of short films by Deborah Stratman — one of the most fascinating authors of contemporary experimental cinema — followed by a conversation with the filmmaker.

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