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ABR Arts

Radical ★★★★★ and The Teacher Who Promised the Sea ★★★★★

Two unmissable films on hardship, hope, and childhood
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ABR Arts • 17 June 2024
ABR Arts

Radical ★★★★★ and The Teacher Who Promised the Sea ★★★★★

Two unmissable films on hardship, hope, and childhood
by •
ABR Arts • 17 June 2024
Radical (photograph by Mateo Londono/ Madman Entertainment)
Radical (photograph by Mateo Londono/ Madman Entertainment)

How to start writing about two films based on polarities – life and death, past and future, childhood and adulthood, loss and hope – that grip your stomach, squeeze your heart, and make you both weep and laugh? I’ll start from a quote by Albert Einstein: ‘The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.’

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Angela Viora

Angela Viora is an artist and a teacher, lecturing in European Languages (Italian Studies) at Monash University. She is an executive member at the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre and sits on the Brimbank Arts Advisory Committee for Public Art & Community Engagement. She has presented her work internationally, including at the Biennale of Australian Art, the 12th Istanbul Biennial (TK), the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and CO.AS.IT Museo Italiano in Melbourne. Angela has published internationally on performance and public art, artivism, audience reception, and education.

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Angela Viora

Angela Viora is an artist and a teacher, lecturing in European Languages (Italian Studies) at Monash University. She is an executive member at the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre and sits on the Brimbank Arts Advisory Committee for Public Art & Community Engagement. She has presented her work internationally, including at the Biennale of Australian Art, the 12th Istanbul Biennial (TK), the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and CO.AS.IT Museo Italiano in Melbourne. Angela has published internationally on performance and public art, artivism, audience reception, and education.

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  • I really loved ‘The Teacher Who Promised the Sea’. It makes me want to learn more about the Spanish Civil War.
    There are so many layers of meaning: Antonio knows all the personalities of his pupils (their strengths & weaknesses), he is a superb & inspiring teacher; the story encompasses three generations.
    It is a tragedy but we learn a lot along the way as the main character Antonio would have liked.
    The photography is beautiful.
    I wondered whether Carlos’s granddaughter (when she became overwhelmed on her journey home) may have pulled her car over on the highway at the exact spot where her great-grandfather had been killed 70 years before?
    Posted by Meredith langford
    30 June 2024

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