Portuguese with English subtitles

Applied Magnetics follows workers struggling for self-management after a multinational corporation of the same name shuts down its factory in Portugal during the revolutionary process. Produced by Cinequipa (with uncredited direction by Fernando Matos Silva), one of the first film cooperatives officially established after the 1974 coup d’état in the context of wider efforts for collectivisation, Applied Magnetics is an exceptional film from the corpus of Portuguese revolutionary cinema. Not only because it focuses on industrial labour and working women, but also because it captures aspirations for cultural emancipation.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Ana Algarra Navarro, Raquel Schefer and Philip Widmann (in English).

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: What Is Needed 1