Film History
The animal that was photographed running and accidentally invented film.
What is a horse?
The notion that film should be the director's vision and use their vision.
What is auteur theory?
The scene where kids run into a man's shop and rob him. The man then hires men to scare the kids that then shoot two of the boys.
What is the Cidade de Deus / City of Gods (2002)?
The director for the film Sambizanga (1972) and first female African director to direct a feature film.
Who was Sarah Maldoror?
The two film styles that influenced Cinema Novo.
What were French New Wave and Italian Neorealism?
The mode of transportation that was recorded and was the first time that a huge group of people went to see a film.
What is a train?
The concept that countries that have little power have a harder time producing and popularizing their country's cinema.
What is Cinema of Small Nations?
The scene where a disabled veteran tries to find his prosthetic leg.
What is O Heroi (2004)?
The director of both Tabu (2012) and Arabian Nights (2015).
Who was Miguel Gomes?
The time period of Cinema Novo in both Brazil and Portugal.
When was the 1960-1970s?
The three people who pioneered film. Hint: two of them are brothers.
Who were Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers?
A film movement in both Brazil and Portugal that made realism more popular over comedies.
What is Cinema Novo?
The scene of a boxer training and running around a stadium.
What is Belarmino (1964)?
(1/2 needed) These two directors made Cidade de Deus (2002).
Who were Fernando Meirelles &/or Kátia Lund?
The concept that we must not only go beyond Portuguese neocolonialism, but also be actively against it.
What is lusotopy?
The photographer who stitched pictures together and accidentally made the first film reel.
Who was Eadweard Muybridge?
The idea that concepts of graphic and disturbing images are needed to contradict audience expectations, especially in films depicting poverty.
What is the aesthetic of violence?
What is Mueda: Memoria e Massacre (1979)?
The director for O Heroi (2004).
Who was Zeze Gamboa?
A particular decade where Brazil, Mozambique, and Angola all individually saw a decline in cinema.
When were the 90s?
The machine invented by Thomas Edison that passed a strip of film rapidly through a peephole.
What is a kinetoscope?
Brazil's movement that experimented with gaudy colors and hard to see scenes that pushed the idea that raw and real emotions are better than simple and delicate ones.
What is Tropicalism?
The black and white film with the scene that had men performing poolside, people dancing, and a man urging his butler to leave the entire container of alcohol at the table.
What is Tabu (2012)?
The director for Terra Sonâmbula (2007).
Who is Teresa Prata?
The organization created by the new Mozambican government that was tasked to "deliver to the people an image of the people."
What was the National Institute of Cinema (the INC)?