Projects


A Transcendência do Ecrã [The Transcendence of the Screen]

Period: 2022-2025.

Coordination: Sérgio Dias Branco and Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello.

Partners: Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) and Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), with support from the Laboratory for Investigating and Practicing Art (LIPA).

Activities and outputs: 11 online seminars (2022-23) and one edited collection, A Transcendência do Ecrã: Expressões Religiosas no Cinema Português [The Transcendence of the Screen: Religious Expressions in Portuguese Cinema] (2025).

Explorations in Film and Christianity

Period: 2017-2024.

Coordination: Sérgio Dias Branco and Rita Benis.

Activities and outputs: one conference in Lisbon, Movement as Immobility: A Conference on Film and Christianity (2017) and one edited collecion, Explorations in Film and Christianity: Movement as Immobility, ed. Benis and Branco (London and New York: Routledge, 2024).