The document discusses the role of community cinema in fostering social spaces and informal education. It summarizes that as social spaces diminish due to political and technological factors, community cinema emerges as a way to rethink social spaces, relations, and learning. Specifically, it discusses two community groups in Porto, Portugal - Casa Viva and Gato Vadio - that screen films to promote sharing, caring, and informal learning outside of traditional education structures. The document advocates that social spaces are important for community interaction and learning from birth, and that community film screenings can help strengthen social bonds, spaces of freedom, and collective knowledge-building.

1. Alone, alone, all, all Alone or
Together?
Ana da Palma
Jorge Delmar
Sapato 43
Avanca| Cinema 2013
Conferência Internacional Cinema

2. Alone, alone, all, all alone* or Together?
As social spaces diminish in the political architecture of the
no-man’s-land, as television and computer screen numb our
natural ability of social beings, as the web provides an
account less, meanwhile possibly «endangered», number of
film material, cinema in the community emerges as a
possible.
In Porto (Portugal), a certain number of groups and
associations reinvent lost social spaces through providing the
sharing of films, thoughts and ideas. tool to rethink social
spaces, relations and learning.
Introduction
Screening of the World in the Community
Social Spaces
Brief aspects to rethink learning theories
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge in English Romantic Verse (1986 [1968]) London:
Penguin Classics, «The rime of the ancient mariner», part IV , 163.

3. Introduction
• 2 key Principles:
• Multidialogism
• Citizen literacy
• 3 binomials:
• Words/Images
• Time/Space
• Citizenship/World
• Indicators identified in
multiple educational context:
• Memory
• Expression
• Resemblance
• Horizontality
Theoretical Clover
• Communities – 2 examples
• Casa Viva
• Gato Vadio
• Film screening – 2 informal
educational dimensions
Educational topos

4. Screening the World in the
Community (Porto)
Casa Viva, Praça Marquês de
Pombal nº 167 Porto
Gato Vadio, Rua do Rosário nº
281 Porto

7. Metropolis

8. Alphaville

9. Fahrenheit 451

10. Stalker

16. These proposals independently of their theme represent
an essential key for another kind of sharing, caring and
learning. The kind that opposes to the contemporaneous
tendency to isolation. Following the thoughts of Hannah
Arendt, the public space is a space of freedom. Since
public space is also a social space, we may say that the
existence of the above cited spaces constitute spaces of
freedom.

17. Social Spaces
Community interaction is essential in the normal
process of learning starting at birth.

18. Since the dawn of humanity building up settlements
has been a natural need.
Public spaces, as social spaces, are the privileged places
to promote the informal construction of citizenship and
must be spaces of freedom.
Cities became large clusters that promote contact
between people and intensify interactions.

19. These aspirations must constantly be questioned: are the
social spaces we inhabit spaces of freedom?

20. These aspirations must constantly be questioned: are the
social spaces we inhabit spaces of freedom?

21. These aspirations must constantly be questioned: are the
social spaces we inhabit spaces of freedom?

22. • People are stimulated
to stay at home or use
their free time in
entertainment and
consumerism centres.
• Consumerism has promoted the use of the automobile, at
the expense of pedestrian mobility.

23. Regarding the growth of abstentions in Portuguese
elections, we can deduce that the citizens are moved
away from politics.

24. There is a sort of institutional rise of fear,
implemented especially in the name of security,
imposing a system of surveillance and control in
public spaces.

25. Bearing all these evidences, it appears as an emergency to
strengthen social spaces in order to promote the contact
between people and the flow of ideas.
Alternative solutions must come from citizens will.

26. In this context, the communitarian
cinema appears in social spaces as an
action of sharing and an action of
collective construction of knowledge.

27. Brief aspects to rethink
learning theories
We considered social spaces as spaces of freedom in which
we pointed out the film screening for the community, as one
part of the solution regarding education and strengthening of
social bounds and social spaces, as a topos to exercise our
humanity, i.e, meeting, talking, sharing, discussing possible
solutions, questioning, formulate possible answers and
acting together.

28. FORMAL EDUCATION
It is a widely adopted mode of
education, confined to school
education or mainstream
education, centred in
curricula and institutions, tests
and quantification and
hierarchical structure.
,.
NON FORMAL
EDUCATION is a
structured and
organized learning
system which is
offered outside the
mainstream
education.
INFORMAL EDUCATION
is considered as a lifelong
learning process. It is a
spontaneous process of
stimulation that leads people
to learn. It works through
conversation, the exploration
and enlargement of
knowledge and the sharing of
experience.

29. • 2 key Principles applied to
cinema in the community
• Multidialogism
• Citizen literacy
• 3 binomials:
• Words/Images
• Time/Space
• Citizenship/World
• Indicators identified in
multiple educational contexts:
• Memory
• Expression
• Resemblance
• Horizontality
• Film screening – 2 informal
educational dimensions
• Participation
•Interest based
•Curiosity based
•Community based
Theoretical Clover Educational dimensions
•Proposals
•Sharing knowledge
•Sharing interests
•Construct knowledge
•Questioning knowledge
•Stimulating knowledge

30. The End.
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