Patricia Sequeira Brás

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Education

Ph.D Candidate, Iberian and Latin American Studies, Birkbeck College, University of

London, 2014.

Dissertation title: ‘The Political Gesture in Pedro Costa’s Films’

MA Film Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London, 2008

Dissertation title: ‘The Representation of Lisbon in Alain Tanner’s In The White City

(1983) and Wim Wenders’ Lisbon Story (1994).

BA (honors) Photography, Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College,

Farnham, Surrey, 2001

Dissertation title: ‘Female Self-Portraiture: The work of Claude Cahun, Cindy Sherman,

Francesca Woodman and Frida Khalo’

Workshops and Professional Diplomas

Step Up - Training Scheme for Film & Television Industries, Four Corners Film, East

London, 2007/08

LCACE - Arts management Workshop, Birkbeck University, London, 2007

Performing Arts Management Course, Forum Dança, Lisbon, Portugal, 2001-02

Photography, Ar.Co, School of Visual Arts, 1996-1996

Employment History

Portuguese Reader (Instituto Camões), Queen Mary College, University of London,

Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, 2013.

Preparing and delivering classes of Portuguese Language to levels I, II & III

Preparing and delivering classes on Portuguese cinema – ‘From Dictatorship to

Revolution in Portugal’s Cinema’ – and on Portuguese literature and film

adaptation – ‘From Page to Screen’.

Supporting Year Abroad applications and academic experience.

Administration support.

Reader Reporter, Granta Books, 12 Addison Avenue, London, W11 4QR, 2010/12

Read and write report on Malaquias (2012) by Andréa del Fogo.

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Read and write report on Mastroianni Day (2007) by João Paulo Cuenca.

TV Listings Writer, Red Bee Media, 85 Uxbridge Road, London, W5 5TH, 2010/11

Content editing (in Portuguese and Spanish)

Research Media Content

Translation from English to Portuguese

Language Support Teaching Assistant, Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School,

Hardinge Street, London, E1 0EB, 2008/9

Teach English and help foreign students with the school curriculum.

Acting as a school representative and as a Portuguese and Spanish translator.

Administration support to the E.A.L. department.

Administration Assistant, Associates Gallery, 97 Hoxton Street, London, N1 6LP,

2007

Administration, database management and general enquires.

Liaison with customers, artists and press.

Helping with the exhibition installation and display.

Administration Officer, Museum 52, 52 Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DP, 2007

Administration support and general enquires.

Keeping filing records up to date.

Database and website management.

Art Educator, Exhibition Centre in Culturgest, C.G.D., Lisbon, 2004 – 2006

Research and development of educational activities.

Team and budget management.

Delivering educational activities and exhibition tours.

Delivering artistic workshops for children and teenagers.

Assisting on the research for the artwork interpretation.

P.A., DocKingdom – Documentary Film Festival & Seminars, Serpa, Portugal 2005

Acting as a film festival representative.

Assisting on the research and the gathering of information for the catalogue.

Mediating screen discussions.

Liaison with directors and press.

Jury (University), DocLisboa – Documentary Film Festival, 2004

Assisting on the research and the gathering of information for the catalogue.

Selecting the winner of the international short-films section.

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Production Secretary, Ministério dos Filmes – Advertising Film Company, Lisbon,

2003 – 2004

Administration management.

Monitoring the receipt and payment of invoices.

Assisting on the production of call sheets for the film’s production.

Assisting the Director and the Production Team.

Art Educator, Modern Art Centre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2002 –

2006

Research and development of educational activities.

Team and budget management.

Delivering educational activities and exhibition tours.

Delivering artistic workshops for children and teenagers.

Assisting on the research for the artwork interpretation.

Conferences

‘Bones (1997): a Case Study on Frame and Out-of-Field’, Student Conference at the

Iberian and Latin American Studies Department, Birkbeck College, University of

London, June 2009.

‘Transcendence or Immanence in Film – The Travelling Shot in Pedro Costa’s Bones

(1997) as a Case Study’, 12th Annual Conference on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian

Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics: ‘Saints in the City’ at the Department of Spanish

and Portuguese, University of California Santa Barbara, April 2010.

‘Of Time’, Postgraduate Student Conference, Law Department, Birkbeck College,

University of London, June 2010.

‘Of Time’, Student Conference, Iberian and Latin American Studies Department,

Birkbeck College, University of London, June 2010.

‘Repetition as time in Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth (2006)', IGRS Forum, Senate

House, February 2011.

‘Sound as Duration and Repetition’, ‘NECS: Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and the

Languages of Screen Media, University of London, King’s College London, Birkbeck,

Regent’s College, Senate House, June 2011.

‘Repetition as a Political Gesture: Colossal Youth (2006) as a Case Study’, Fourth

International Deleuze Studies Conference: ‘Creation, Crisis, Critique’, Copenhagen,

July 2011.

‘The 25 April in Colossal Youth (2006)’ in Scenes of Class Struggle in Portugal,

Birkbeck College, October 2011.

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‘The Power of the False in Pedro Costa’s In Vanda’s Room (2000)’, The Powers of the

False Symposium, at the Institut Francais and Ciné Lumière, London, May 2012.

Publications

‘Ne Change Rien (2009): Time is Political’ in Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the

Moving Image, August 2014.

‘La Fuerza de lo Falso: en el Cine de Jia Zhangke in Dossier: Duplicadores y Falsarios

at La Fuga, November 2011

Available online http://www.lafuga.cl/la-fuerza-de-lo-falso/512

Scholarships

Awarded with the Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia Scholarship Program for PhD

research, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2009-2012

Invited to attend the Intensive Program of the School of Critical Theory,

“Cosmopolitanism and Diversity in the Humanities and Europe: Mapping intersections

and Created Synergy”, Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, coordinated by

Prof. Rosi Bradotti in Utrecht, Netherlands, January and Februar y 2010

Awarded with the Iberian and Latin American Scholarship Visiting Program for PhD

research, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin, Germany, January 2013

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