Image Composition refers to the arrangement of elements on a screen, whether it is a painting or drawing, a photograph or a frame in television or cinema. The main elements that are an essential part of the composition of any image are the main subject, the foreground and the secondary motifs, and all this components […]

Intertextuality is a concept formulated by the Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva, who defended that “any text is the absorption and transformation of another”[1]; the word “text” should be understood here in a broader way, as it can be a reference to any artistic or cultural production, in a visual support or not, and including verbal […]

The history of Japanese Cinema has over one century. In 1897, Japanese people were introduced to a new invention, which allowed to put images once static in motion; the responsible for the first public demonstration of what would become cinema has its known nowadays was the American company Vitascope. It is clear then since its […]

Milan Kundera is a French writer, with Czech origins. Born in 1929 in Brno, at the time Czechoslovakia, and currently Czech Republic, Kundera comes from a middle class family; his father was a pianist, and he was introduced to the arts world at an early age, starting to learn to play the piano with his […]

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was a notorious Japanese film-maker, and is considered one of the most important directors in the history of film, given his important contributions not only to Japanese cinema, but to the entire film industry. Kurosawa grew up in the suburbs of Tokyo, and was the youngest of eight children of a middle […]

Sergei Loznitsa is a Belarusian movie director, mostly known for the work he developed in the areas of both documental and fictional cinema. Born in 1964, Loznitsa started his career in the field of exact sciences, first by getting his Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics in the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, in Ukraine, after which he […]

Considered by many the founding fathers of cinema, Auguste and Louis Lumière where two French brothers who invented the cinematograph. Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas Lumière was born in 1862, and Louis Jean Lumière in 1864; both brothers are from Besançon, a city located next to the Swiss border. Since their early childhood, both Auguste and […]

20th January 1946 was the day the great film maker David Lynch was born. Raised in a family with Finish roots, and with an education following the commandments of the Presbyterianism, Lynch spent his childhood travelling all across the interior of the United States, and soon revealed his inclination towards the artistic field, expressing his […]

Mafra is a Portuguese village situated in Lisbon district, and it is also a municipality that is divided into 11 parishes. Located about 40 km on the north of the Portuguese capital, and only 9 km away from Ericeira, Mafra was founded during Middle Age, being recognized by king D. Manuel in 1513. The village […]

Located in Mafra, near Lisbon, in Portugal, Mafra Palace, or Mafra Convent, is a monument from the 18th century, whose construction began in 1717 and was finished in 1737. The construction was ordered by King D. João V, as a form of payment of a promise he had made, swearing that he would build a Palace […]