The film A Ronda da Noite (The Nightwatch), directed by João Sousa Cardoso within the individual exhibition produced by the program ARTES (Contemporary Art Program of the Manuel António da Mota Foundation).
Occupying Cinema Batalha for a month – an essential and historical place of the cinema in Portugal –, across a dialogue with Artur Andrade's modernist building (opened in 1947) and questioning the relationships between theatre, cinema and the memory of the moving image, A Ronda da Noite is a feature film that adopted Heiner Müller's text Quartett, produced on site and premiered in the last night of the exhibition, in the Cinema Batalha's main room.


Directed by
João Sousa Cardoso

Text
Heiner Müller

Translation
Adélia Silva Melo

Batalha Poem
Regina Guimarães

Performers
Ricardo Bueno
Marta Cunha

Guests
Manoel de Oliveira
José Bragança de Miranda
Mareantes do Rio Douro

Light
Miguel Ângelo Carneiro

Image
Ricardo Novais Pereira

Second Camera
Catarina Oliveira

Editing
Ricardo Novais Pereira
João Sousa Cardoso

Sound Director
Eduardo Magalhães

Sound Design
Eduardo Magalhães
Melissa Pons

Initiative
ARTES - Fundação Manuel António da Mota

Artistic Director ARTES
Luísa Mota

Production
Cristina Regadas
Isalinda Santos
Ema Ramos

Executive Producers
Felícia Teixeira
João Brojo

Support
Vídeo Digital

Runtime
120 min

Year of Production
2013

Première
9 Novembro 2013
Cinema Batalha, Porto (Portugal)


More info:
www.artes.fmam.pt/arquivo?item=8376-a-ronda-da-noite&tag=a-ronda-da-noite
http://joaosousacardoso.pt/A-Ronda-da-Noite

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2013