{"id":92,"date":"2011-08-21T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?p=92"},"modified":"2012-02-06T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:14:09","slug":"gabriel-abrantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/2011\/08\/21\/gabriel-abrantes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Abrantes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Abrantes-Palacios-3sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93\" title=\"Gabriel Abrantes: Palacios de Pena\" src=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Abrantes-Palacios-3sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Abrantes-Palacios-3sm.jpg 435w, https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Abrantes-Palacios-3sm-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 22 October 2011, at 7pm NFT3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liberdade<\/strong><br \/>\nGabriel Abrantes, Benjamin Crotty | Portugal-Angola 2011 | 16 min<em><br \/>\nLiberdade<\/em> sketches episodes in the relationship between a domineering Chinese immigrant and her Angolan boyfriend with lavishly cinematic panache. Travelling through spectacular locations in and around Luanda, they navigate the complications of their burgeoning identities and the different cultures they represent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Palacios de Pena (Palaces of Pity)<\/strong><br \/>\nGabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt | Portugal 2011 | 56 min<br \/>\nGabriel Abrantes and his collaborators use the tropes of mainstream cinema to make works that are by turns comical, thought-provoking and transgressive. In a parable on guilt and oppression, which alludes to aspects of Portuguese colonial history, two cousins are potential heirs to their grandmother\u2019s fortune. A new generation may be oblivious to the past, but inherits it nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olympia I &amp; II<\/strong><br \/>\nGabriel Abrantes, Katie Widloski | Portugal-USA 2008 | 7 min<br \/>\nMimicking the composition of Manet\u2019s notorious painting, the artists play out two possible scenarios: between a prostitute and her gay brother, and between a wealthy transsexual and his devoted maid.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Webber<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also screening:<\/strong><br \/>\nTuesday 25 October 2011, at 1:15pm NFT2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 22 October 2011, at 7pm NFT3 Liberdade Gabriel Abrantes, Benjamin Crotty | Portugal-Angola 2011 | 16 min Liberdade sketches episodes in the relationship between a domineering Chinese immigrant and her Angolan boyfriend with lavishly cinematic panache. Travelling through spectacular locations in and around Luanda, they navigate the complications of their burgeoning identities and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,8,33,34,29,32,16],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-weekend","tag-31","tag-8","tag-angola","tag-gabriel-abrantes","tag-lff-2011","tag-portugal","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}