Filipe Martins
Integrated Member of uniMAD
Bio
Filipe Martins is film director, assistant professor at the University School of
Media Arts and Design (ESMAD, Porto, Portugal) and researcher at the Institute
of Philosophy of the University of Porto, in the Research Group Aesthetics,
Politics and Knowledge (APK). His filmography includes films in the genres of
fiction, documentary and videodance, selected and awarded in several
international film festivals. His latest film, “House of Glass”, won the Voices
Short Award 2019 at the IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam). Codirector
and programmer of the Family Film Project, international film festival which
takes place annually in Porto since 2012. PhD in Communication Sciences (UM),
master’s degree in Contemporary Culture (UNL) and degree in Art and
Communication (ESAP). Post-doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Porto
(2020), with a research project entitled Performativity and Aesthetic
Experience: for a phenomenology of cinema. His PhD thesis is published under the
title Sentido Narrativo (Narrative Sense) (Afrontamento, 2016). He organized or
co-organized the books Memory and Aesthetic Experience (2020), Unframing
Archives (2018), Trajetos da Narratividade (2017), Deslocações da Intimidade
(2015) and Das Imagens Familiares (2013). He also published two fiction books.
He taught for several years at Balleteatro, the University Art School of Porto
(ESAP) and the University School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) in areas
related to film script, film directing, acting and post-production. He currently
coordinates the Master´s degree in Audiovisual Communication at ESMAD.
Research interests
- Film Studies
- Narratology
- Semiotics
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