“AN ANGEL IN MY TABLE” 1990 | 2h38’ [NZ/AUS/UK] | PLE VI Cinema Screenings

#### Conversas com Cinema© PROSA

## Ciclo PENSO LOGO ESCREVO VI

["I THINK, THEREFORE I WRITE VI" Cinema Screenings]
Curadoria de Alexandre Braga

“AN ANGEL IN MY TABLE” 1990 | M/12 | 2h38’ [NZ/AUS/UK]
De Jane Campion
Sexta Dia 18/09 às 19h30 [Friday 09/18 at 7:30pm]

Janet Frame foi uma criança de inteligência invulgar que, na adolescência, foi erradamente diagnosticada com esquizofrenia. O filme acompanha a sua descoberta do mundo e o percurso que a leva da Nova Zelândia à Europa, enquanto a sua obra literária começa a ser reconhecida e aclamada internacionalmente.
Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.

Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese
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The PENSO LOGO ESCREVO (I Think, Therefore I Write) cycle emerged from PROSA's Creative Writing workshop as a space for inner listening and the creation of fiction. It is built upon a simple conviction: writing is a way of thinking about the world while simultaneously thinking about ourselves within it. By working with principles of narratology and the representation of reality, the workshop seeks to cultivate a form of writing that goes beyond storytelling and instead creates inner landscapes. Writing thus becomes an act of discovery — a way of searching for the self that is sometimes revealed within us and sometimes through others. More than a technical exercise, it is an exercise in presence and imagination: creating language as one might create a habitable space within human experience.
In this sixth edition, we encounter one of cinema's most beautiful portrayals of the relationship between writing and the construction of identity. Based on the autobiography of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, An Angel at My Table (1990) follows a life shaped by vulnerability, exclusion, and misunderstanding, revealing how literary creation can become a powerful instrument of preservation and reconstruction.
For many years, Janet was defined by the way others perceived her. Her extreme shyness, difficulties with social integration, and an incorrect psychiatric diagnosis led to a long period of institutionalisation that nearly interrupted her life as a writer. Yet it is precisely within this space of silence and isolation that writing begins to emerge as a force capable of preserving what seemed on the verge of disappearing.
Jane Campion approaches this journey with remarkable sensitivity. Rather than constructing a narrative centred on illness, she is interested in portraying the gradual formation of a creative consciousness. Writing appears not as an act of escape, but as a way of organising experience, giving meaning to memory, and reclaiming one's own voice.
What happens when language ceases to be merely a means of communication and becomes a place of habitation? Is it possible to write in order to understand what we do not yet know about ourselves?
Perhaps literature exists precisely to answer these questions. After all, we do not always write because we already know who we are. Sometimes, we write because we are still trying to find out. An Angel at My Table reminds us that writing does not simply transform reality into narrative. Sometimes, it transforms life itself into an opportunity for rediscovery.
And perhaps that is its deepest power: allowing us to rebuild, through words, what the world once seemed to fragment.

(Curatorship of Alexandre Braga)

All Cinema PROSA films will be shown on an illuminated pixel (65’’ QLED screen) in a room with a maximum capacity of 24 spectators.

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