Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery and Porto/Post/Doc are launching a new partnership that brings the spirit of the Transmission programme to Matosinhos. Usually part of the festival’s programme, Transmission is dedicated to the intersections between cinema, music, popular culture, archive and contemporary creation. The first initiative takes place on 11 July, in the Main Hall of Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery, with two warm-up screenings: “La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés”, at 5pm, and “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley”, by Amy Berg, at 9pm.
The afternoon begins with “La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés”, a film directed by Antón Álvarez, better known as C. Tangana. After establishing himself as one of the central figures in contemporary Spanish music, the musician and rapper makes his directorial debut under his own name with an intimate portrait of flamenco guitarist Yerai Cortés. Moving through family memory, musical transmission and a deeply personal act of revisitation, the film approaches flamenco not only as an artistic language, but also as a space of inheritance, conflict and catharsis. The screening of “La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés” will be followed by a conversation with Maria Gil, actress, theatre director and activist, and Vicente Gil, actor, both of whom have developed work across theatre, cinema and television and have contributed to a public reflection on representation, identity and Roma culture in Portugal.
In the evening, “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley”, by Amy Berg, offers a portrait of one of the most influential and enigmatic figures in 1990s music. Jeff Buckley, the artist behind the album “Grace”, died in 1997, aged 30, in an accident in the Wolf River, in Memphis, leaving behind an unfinished second album and a profound mark on several generations of musicians and listeners. Through previously unseen footage and intimate testimonies, including accounts from the three women who knew him best, Amy Berg creates a sensitive portrait of an artist whose voice, presence and work continue to occupy a singular place in the history of modern music. The screening will be followed, at 11pm, by a party with a DJ set at Exploratório esad-idea, on Rua Brito Capelo.
This first collaboration between Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery and Porto/Post/Doc proposes an approach to the Transmission universe outside the festival’s usual context, creating a shared programming moment around the relationship between cinema and music. By bringing together two films centred on defining figures of contemporary musical creation, the programme establishes Matosinhos as a new meeting place for audiences, artists and communities connected to cinema, music and visual culture.
Both screenings take place on 11 July, in the Main Hall of Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery, in Matosinhos. The screening of “La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés” takes place at 5pm and the screening of “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley”, by Amy Berg, at 9pm. Admission is free, subject to venue capacity, with tickets available through BOL.
