The JRAAS team and the CETAPS Digital Lab – a research centre at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto – presented its latest film series, entitled ‘Thalassologia: The Blue Humanities in Film’.
As the title suggests, the thematic line of this cycle was linked to the Blue Humanities, the field of Humanities that studies the relationship between human beings and their culture and water. Specifically, this cycle looked at representations of the oceans and maritime exploration and research in the cinema. The second session focused on the film “The Abyss” (1989) directed by James Cameron. The story follows a diving team sent to search for a lost nuclear submarine, while they face dangers, they also make a remarkable discovery: an advanced aquatic alien species living deep beneath the ocean’s surface. The screening took place at Planetário on 24 November with a foreword by Luciano Moreira (FLUP, CETAPS Digital Lab Coordinator), the session explored the film’s representation of the ocean as a place of mystery and discovery.
