The life cycle of images
“An encounter of experimental practices of artistic research with biomaterials in search for more sustainable pathways to create visual memory”. Through photography, sound recording, sculpture, and illustration, emerges the narrative of macroalgae as both an object of study and a creative medium, in dialogue with the imaginaries of science and research. The motto of the […]
Colmeia (Hive)
Among the exuberant beauty of nature and the life built by man, there is a great relation, as well as a great difference.
WILDESTCôa
Shot in the Greater Côa Valley, this documentary film takes us to one of the most vibrant, wild and inspiring regions of our country, Portugal, exploring the life forms that inhabit these parts and the results of five years of this rewilding movement. The session will be attended by the director, a representative from Rewilding, […]
Climate In Therapy
Seven climate scientists meet in a godforsaken meeting room to engage in circle therapy about their shared climate anxiety. Can emotional honesty be part of the solution? Open a bottle of climate anxiety. Pour the contents into a hot pot under high pressure. Then add a teaspoon of horror, a tablespoon of anger and three […]
Dog Alone
A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.
Songs of Metamorphosis or That Time I Was Incarnated as a Porpoise
Driven by the desire to generate life and realizing what was stopping her, it became inevitable to face the spiral of time. An abyssal record guided by a more-than-human relationship, through internal landscapes and authentic conversations in an attempt to re-establish the flow of Metamorphosis: jumping from being to being, as new ways of saying […]
Blue Lake Whispers
In an abandoned forest, a woman emerges from the depths of a lake. She wants to give birth to her child, but she keeps repeating that her child has told her it doesn’t want to be born. She encounters two women who tell her that in the world she has entered, no one is born […]
Black Snow
When residents of a remote Siberian coal mining city discover that an abandoned mine has caught fire, pushing toxic gas into their homes, they turn to homemaker-turned-journalist Natalia Zubkova for help. But after her news coverage of the coal fire goes viral, the government launches a massive effort to cover up the truth. In the […]
Aurora
A small asteroid fragment falls into the backyard of Aurora’s house before the little girl goes to school. She is convinced that it was her father who sent the fragment in an attempt to make contact with her. At school, during a presentation on her parents’ profession, Aurora surprises her friends and teacher by telling […]
Presentation of the Book: “Amazonia for an Open Wound of the Planet”
Manuel Carvalho has traveled more than 12,000 kilometers in the interior of the Amazon. In Amazonia: a journey through an open wound on the planet (ed. Ideais de Ler), the author takes us through territories of dense forest, soy plantations, indigenous villages, contaminated rivers and areas of illegal deforestation. Going back to the time of […]