Look out for the newest festival in town- four documentaries to watch- 6th and 7th of December at the Barbican Centre and at the ICA - Reidy - Constructing Utopia / Reidy, A Construção de uma Utopia / Brazil, 2009 / Dir. Ana Maria Magalhaes / 77 The urbanist Afonso Eduardo Reidy is one of the leading figures of Brazilian modernism. Born in Paris and with a career devoted to transforming the landscape of his beloved Rio de Janeiro, Reidy was catapulted to the spotlight when he won the first prize at the 1953 International Biennale of Sao Paulo with the seminal housing project Conjunto Habitacional. - Operations SAAL: A Radical Architecture Project / Portugal, 2007 / Dir. Joao Dias / 90 The most complete and compelling documentary about the SAAL (Ambulatory Supporte Service) movement: a groudbreaking experiment in Portuguese architecture and urbanism, which emerged with the fall of the dictatorship in 1974, led by architects such as Alvaro Siza and Souto de Moura. - The Devil is a Woman - A Few Cuts Censorship III / Portugal, 2014 / Dir. Manuel Mozoz / 45 Manuel Mozos third film on censorship focuses on the Dictatorships wilful deletion of all manner of scenes containing a female presence. - Now What? Remind Me / Portugal, 2013 / Dir. Joaquim Pinto / 160 Renowned for his long international career as sound engineer, with directors such as Wener Schroeter, Raoul Ruiz and Manoel de Oliveira, Joaquim Pinto surprised international audiences with his breathtaking new film Now What? Remind Me, a remarkably personal essay on love, suffering and the ephemerality of life. details utopiafestival.org.uk/
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