INET-md and project EXIMUS, in partnership with Association Mémoire vive – Memória viva, will hold an event on music and cinema, complementing the exhibition “Chansons de l’exil portugais à l’aube de la Révolution des œillets (1974)” (Songs of Portuguese exile at the dawn of the Carnation Revolution (1974)), currently on display in Paris.
Music in films about Portuguese immigration to France in the 1960s and 1970s
5 October 2025 | 3:30 pm | EDMP – 8 impasse Crozatier – 75012 Paris. Mº Ledru Rollin ou Reuilly Diderot
How does music, in these films, contribute not only to build up a militant gaze (over the slums, for instance), but also to reflect internal debates of the Portuguese exiles on the role of music as a weapon of dissent?
This meeting, open to the public, promotes the screening of a series of film excerpts to discuss the role of music in the films produced in France on the Portuguese immigration of the 1960s and 1970s, and to address the urgent need to restore some of the films from this period.
The highlight will be the compositions of Luís Cília, namely through the film Lorette et les autres, by Dominique Dante (1972, 42 minutes), which will be screened in its entirety.
With the participation of:
Marie-Christine Volovitch-Tavares, historian, vice-president of CERMI (Centre d’études et de recherches sur les migrations ibériques);
Manuel Deniz Silva, president of INET-md (Institute of Ethnomusicology – Centre for Studies in Music and Dance), coordenator of the project EXIMUS and professor at the Department of Musicology of NOVA FCSH.
Agnès Pellerin, integrated researcher at INET-md/NOVA FCSH, through project EXIMUS.
This meeting is organised as part of the EXIMUS project: “Everyone must be warned: Music and exile in France during the Estado Novo regime (1933-1974)” (Foundation for Science and Technology, 2022.05129. PTDC) and the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Centre for Studies in Music and Dance (DOI: 10.54499/UIDB/00472/2020).