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 third session focused on the film ‘The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’ (2004), directed by Wes Anderson, which follows the story of oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his campaign to take revenge on the legendary jaguar shark that killed his friend.
The screening of the film took place at the Biodiversity Gallery on 3 December, with an opening speech by Nuno Soares, a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon.
