1st Session
Length: 43’
RAQUEL SCHEFER | AVÓ (MUIDUMBE), 2010, 10'49''
VICTOR JORGE | LANDSCAPE, 2013, 2’11’’
BRUNO RAMOS | FACTORY, 2012, 10’19’’
SALOMÉ LAMAS | A TORRE, 2016, 8’
LEALVEILEBY | THE TWO HEADED BULL AND OTHER PORTUGUESE FABLES, 2017, 7’41’’
JOÃO LEITÃO | O RETRATO DE IRINEU, 2014, 4’
Artists and synopsis
_RAQUEL SCHEFER // AVÓ (MUIDUMBE), 2010, 10'49''
Portrait of a colonial family in Mozambique, ex-Portuguese colony, in 1960.
A sequence of 8 mm familiar footage is the point of departure of an experimental documentary about the artist’s relationship with an imaginary territory – the town of Muidumbe, in Mozambique, in 1960, just before the beginning of the Colonial War, where her family used to live and her grandfather was the Head of the Administrative Post. “Granny (Muidumbe)” portrays her gradual transformation into her grandmother as an aim to explore and deconstruct the discursive lapses between text (family letters), postcolonial memories and archive image, searching for the signs of an unknown obsessive territory.
BIO
Raquel Shefer (Porto, 1981) is a Director with a PhD in Cinema Studies form the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, where she developed her thesis on the cinematic representation of contemporary history under the advisory of Philippe Dubois. She published the book “El Autorretrato en el Documental” (The Self-Portrait in the Documentary) in 2008 in Argentina, where she obtained a Masters in Documentary Cinema. She has directed shorts and videos, which have been shown at several festivals and exhibitions, such as FIDMarseille, the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Trienal de Mármara. “Avó (Muidumbe)” (Grandmother (Muidumbe)), a short produced as part of the Video Art Course of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, received the award for best film in the competition section of the 2010 FUSO Festival in Lisbon.
_VICTOR JORGE // LANDSCAPE, 2013, 2’11’’
Found-Footage Super8 Film from 1979, recovered and restored with a series of panoramic camera movements on a landscape with sound/music from Lionel Ritchie "All Night Long".
Winning Award FUSO| EDP foundation/MAAT, 2013.
BIO
Victor Jorge (Lisbon, 1971) completed a course in video/cinema and sound design at Ar.Co. He studied theater (F. C. Gulbenkian, Lisbon and the Method Studio, London) and dance at Rui Horta, Butho with Catherine Chu and Philosophy at the Nova University of Lisbon. He has exhibited his work in Portugal, the USA, Italy and France.
_BRUNO RAMOS // FACTORY, 2012, 10’19’’
In central London, P. Sylva leads an unusual life. He is a ghost in one of the busiest cities in the world and defends his way of life. Factory explores the relationship between the person and the space he inhabits, through a set of predetermined movements. The film was created based on a pre-defined audiovisual narrative and focused on the daily life of the character.
With: P. Sylva, H. Hassan; Directed by: Bruno Ramos; Sound Design: Sergio Cruz
BIO
Bruno Ramos was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1975. He studied photography, cinema and critical studies in contemporary art. Holds a Master degree in documentary filmmaking from Goldsmiths College in London passed with distinction. His work as a visual artist, mainly photography and video, has been developed and exhibited internationally. In 2006 he won the BES Revelation award in Portugal and in 2010 awarded the Gulbenkian Foundation development grant. He won the Fuso Videoarte jury award with his film Factory. Currently he works and lives in London.
_SALOMÉ LAMAS // A TORRE, 2016, 8'
Perhaps Kolja´s experience of climbing to the top of the tree, of metamorphizing his (human) body with the tree (nature), exploring the boundary between the earth and the heavens, will confirm his purity of spirit, the grandiosity of idiots or the imbecility of mystics. Or is it all of the above? Perhaps it is a sign of the illuminated, or merely an elaborate suicide.
BIO
Salomé Lamas (Lisbon) studied cinema in Lisboa and Prague, visual arts in Amsterdam and is pursuing a doctorate in contemporary art studies in Coimbra. Her work has been exhibited not only at art fairs but also in film festivals such as the Berlinale, Museu Rainha Sofia, MNAC- Museu do Chiado, DocLisboa, Cinema du Réel, Visions du Réel, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Harvard Film Archive, Arsenal Institut fur film und videokunst, Viennale, Culturgest, CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém, Museu Serralves, Tate Modern, CPH: DOX, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, Bozar, SESC São Paulo, MAAT and La Biennale di Venezia Architettura, among others. Lamas has received several scholarships such as The Gardner Film Study Center Fellowship – Harvard University, The Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio Center and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, among others. She also collaborates with the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and with Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola.
_ LEALVEILEBY // THE TWO-HEADED BULL AND OTHER PORTUGUESE FABLES, 2017, 7'41''
Filmed on a portable, digital camera, and incorporating cinematic imperfections, such as a grainy appearance added in post-production, this video uses subtitles from the era of silent film to create an anthropomorphic game which reveals the ease with which we project human traces onto everything that surround us via language. The video reminds us of how the text and the image are constantly shaping our understanding of the world.
BIO
LealVeileby is a duo made up of António Leal (Lisbon, Portugal, 1976) and Jesper Veileby (Karlstad, Sweden, 1985). They live and work in Malmö, Sweden, but keep an atelier in Lisbon which they use often. Utilizing a variety of methods such as video, objects or installations, the duo investigates the nature of art and the making of knowledge. Their practice is described as a playful exploration of the scientific, occult and linguistic landscapes. In 2017, they received an annual work scholarship form the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Leal finished his Masters in Fine Arts at the Malmö Art Academy (2009-11, adviser Gertrud Sandqvist), and attended the Independent Study Program of Maumaus - School of Visual Art in Lisbon (2006-09). Veileby finished his Bachelor degree and his Maters in Fine Arts at the Malmö Art Academy (2009-14, adviser João Penalva). The duo has shown individually at Espaço Campanhã (Porto, PT, 2018), at Konsthall K (Karlstad, SE, 2014), at Espaço Campanhã (Porto, PT, 2013) and at Galleri Pictura (Lund, SE, 2012). As far as collective shows, the highlights: Fuso - Video Art Festival, MAAT (Lisbon, PT, 2017), XIX Bienal de Cerveira (Vila Nova de Cerveira, PT, 2017), Sjöbo konsthall (Sjöbo, SE, 2017) and Inter Arts Center (Malmö, SE, 2015).
_JOÃO LEITÃO // O RETRATO DE IRINEU, 2014, 4’
Iraneus: unable to forget and endowed with an infallible memory.
BIO
Has an undergraduate degree in Theater (Dramaturgy) from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, and a Masters in Multimedia Art (Audiovisuals) from the Faculdade de Belas Artes of the University of Lisbon. Currently he is pursuing a Doctorate at the same institution. As a creative, he founded the performance collective 3.14 (2010-2012) and, in 2012, merges with the collective SillySeason. He regularly develops video art projects, which have been exhibited internationally and/or have received awards nationally. He is represented by the French platform Heure Exquise: Centre International pour les Arts Vídeo, and has collaborated with: Mole Wetherell (2012), Rabbit Hole (2014), VIDEOLOTION (2015-2017), Elmano Sancho (2015), Ana Jezabel and Antonio Torres (2017), Daniel Gorjão/Teatro do Vão (2017) and João Pedro Fonseca (2017).