The "100 Best Cinema Plans, 100 Authors, 100 Plans", arrived at the bookstores on November 16.

Synopsis

In an epiphany in pandemic times, I imagined a book about cinema on sale on the CTT balconies-for many places in Portugal, the only selling book space. I envisioned a publication capable of establishing dialogue with a citizen who would enter it and that such contact would add a better mastery of the cinematic language to the reader. A book without principle, half or end, to read at one time, to go tasting, to jump out of page without losing any pinch, to go back always.

If it was to speak of the cinematic grammar, then, giving voice to the experts made sense. And how to do it, running away from the academic text, which

implies research, scientific writing and time for the discourse? It would have to be something that involved emotiveness on the part of the author, that if he felt the passion for cinema and that, in a small text, he would explain that singular artistic strategies uses cinema to express himself-to-him, by end and to gaudius of all.

Author
Nelson Araújo

Nelson Araújo is director of the graduate of Cinema and Audiovisual at the Artistic Higher School of Porto, local where he teaches the curriculum units: History of Portuguese Cinema, History of Cinema, Audiovisual Expression, Cinema's aesthetics and Methodologies of Realization. It is an integrated researcher at the Center for Studies Arnaldo Araújo, integrates the organizing committee of the International Meeting The Cinema and the other Arts, having participated in the coordination of the 4 volumes Cinema and other Arts-Dialogues and Artistic Anxieties published by LabCom.IFP.

With 3 public presentations already scheduled for the year 2023

• November 25, at 16h,   in Porto, at the Térmita bookstore with   presentation by Nelson Araújo, Maria João Corttsman and Daniel Ribas.

• December 2, at 16h, in Lisbon,   in the bookstore Line of Shadow / Cinemateca with   presentation by Nelson Araújo, Liliana Rosa and Maria Irene Aparicio.

• December 8, at 18h, in Coimbra, in the bookshop Almedina with presentation by Nelson Araújo, André Graça, Sérgio Dias Branco and White Anabela de Oliveira.