Translating Nothing
Thursday, Feb 16, 8 to 9 PM
113 McCaul St., Room 316
No RSVP required
Post-screening conversation will follow
At this event translator and film creator David Swartz will read from his translation of ORPHEU LITERARY QUARTERLY Volumes 1 & 2 (1915) and present his film version of THE SEAFARER by FERNANDO PESSOA.
THE SEAFARER was filmed in a medieval cistern located underneath the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lisbon (FBAUL). The film runs 50 minutes in its entirety. It features:
MARIANA MENESES, DULLIER CORREIA, & MARIA CABRAL
A quote from ORPHEU LITERARY QUARTERLY:
“Properly speaking, ORPHEU is an exile of artistic temperaments seeking art as secrecy or torment…Our intent is to materialize, as a group or idea, a determined number of revelations in thought or art, that, based on this aristocratic principle, find in ORPHEU, their esoteric ideal, ingrained in the way we feel and know ourselves.”
Luis de Montalvôr (from the “Introduction” to Orpheu Literary Quarterly Volume 1)
About the translator and film creator, David Swartz
Born and raised in Toronto, David moved to Lisbon Portugal in 2014 where he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon (“The Hands´ Self-Reflection”, MFA, 2016) and Literary Studies at NOVA University Lisbon (“Shake-speares Tenth Muse: The Will To Nothing”, PhD, 2022). His publications include two translations from Portuguese: The Religious Mantle by Nuno Júdice (New Meridian Arts, 2019) and Orpheu Literary Quarterly Volumes 1 & 2 (New Meridian Arts, 2022).