🎬 Cinema’s First Epics in Focus
🗓 May 16th to 26th
📍 Polytechnic Institute of Porto’s Cultural Center (next to Marquês metro station)

Over the course of two weeks, we’ll celebrate some of the earliest epic and proto-epic films in cinema history — works that elevated the art of filmmaking to the scale of myth and collective memory long before the arrival of sound!

📽️ Introductions with commentary and special guests
🎟 Free entry (limited seating — come early!)

🎓 An initiative promoted by the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature, in collaboration with ESMAD-IPP and the Polytechnic Institute of Porto’s Cultural Center.

Session 1 (May 16, 3:00 PM) — Presented by JORGE CAMPOS

Neron Essayant des Poisons sur des Esclaves (Georges Hatot, 1897, 50")

Jugement de Paris (Georges Hatot, 1902, 53")

L’Île de Calypso ou le Géant Polyphème (Georges Méliès, 1905, 3'32")

Le Retour d’Ulysse (André Calmettes, Charles Le Bargy, 1909, 11'56")

La Caduta di Troia (Giovanni Pastrone, Luigi Borgnetto, 1911, 28'37")

L’Odissea (Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro, 1911, 43'32")