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Abstract
Susana de Sousa Dias discusses her development as a documentary filmmaker dedicated to exploring the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar whose regime ruled Portugal for 48 years, using still and motion picture photography from the regime's own archives. Interviewer Scott MacDonald focuses on her innovative feature documentaries Still Life (2005) and 48 (2009).
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1. PIDE: Policia de Vigilância e de Defesa do Estado (State Defense and Surveillance Police); this name was later changed to DGS: Direcção-Geral de Segurança (General Secutiry Directorate).
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Scott MacDonald
Scott MacDonald is author of the series, A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, now in five volumes from University of California Press, and eight other books, including Avant-Garde Film/Motion Studies (Cambridge), The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place (California), Adventures of Perception: Cinema As Exploration (California, 2009) and American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn (California, 2013); a new interview book, Avant-Doc, is in production at Oxford University Press. He was named a Film Preservation Honoree by Anthology Film Archives in 1999 and an Academy Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2012. He teaches film history at Hamilton College.