Sixth session of the cycle of films and talks Modos de Rever: Cinema e o Imaginário do Museu, with programming and moderation by Isabel Lopes Gomes. Following on from the previous film programme, which explored the rapprochement between cinema and the plastic arts, this second session seeks to reflect on the representations of the museum in cinema, from different periods in its history to the present day. This session will feature a screening of Orson Welles' F for Fake (1973), followed by a conversation with writer Mário Cláudio and curator Nuno Faria, moderated by Isabel Lopes Gomes.

18 OCT | SAT | 17:00

VÉRITÉS ET MENSONGES | F DE FRAUDE

Orson Welles | FRA, IRN, FRG | 1973 | 89'

F for Fake was Orson Welles' last film to be released in his lifetime, and it documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others, constructing a very particular filmic language that would be one of the inceptions ofwhat is nowadays considered as "essay film".