Interactive Film

BRAZIL'S LANDLESS MOVEMENT: INTERACTIVE FILM & PRESENTATION

Organised by the schools of Development Studies, Film & TV Studies, & Language, Linguistics & Translation Studies  Thursday 12th February 2009
University of East Anglia, Arts 01.02 at 7pm.
Guest speaker: Nina Simões

"Rehearsing Reality"

This is an interactive non-linear work based on the  relationship between the Landless Movement in Brazil and the  Theatre of the Oppressed.
Brazil's Landless Movement (MST) - described by Noam Chomsky  as 'the most successful grassroots movement in the world' -  has adopted Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, developed by  Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal, which teach people how to transform themselves from spectators into 'spect-actors' by actively taking control of their lives. As the documentary Rehearsing Reality was edited with the  Korsakow System (software deigned to create interactive  films), members of the audience will be invited to interact 

Further details: hazel.marsh@uea.ac.uk