EXPERIMENTAL NACIONAL 2022
Concrete | Concrete
Portugal | 05’33’’ | 2021
Realizadora |Director: Lea Bensaja dei Schiro Siebrecht
Produção | Production: Lea Siebrecht, ADOFF arquitectos
Synopsis
Concrete is the second production of A Site Specific Dance Project. It is a videodance recorded in a space that was previously an immobile and isolated building - Quinta Vale do Conde, Mirandela -, which, through the presence and interactions between bodies in motion, became a place of dynamics and dialogue.
Biography
Born in Alentejo, Vila Viçosa, and residing in Vila Nova de Gaia since 2012, Lea Siebrecht is 24 years old and is a unique young creator and performer of contemporary dance. Lea is currently teaching contemporary dance at the Northern Dance Conservatory, she has also focused on developing the conceptual plan for her third videodance and became co-founder of the alternative and multidisciplinary space PiSCiNA.
Depth Wish| Depth Wish
Portugal | 11’00’’ | 2021
Realizadora|Director: Margarida Albino
Produção | Production: Ar.Co, Terratreme
Synopsis
In an attempt to escape the entire flow to which she is exposed, M goes in search of a place - the sea and its beings - that sets her free from time and can give herself pleasure, but is constantly infected and interrupted by phenomena that affect her and alter her perception.
Biography
After starting to study in arts at Escola Artística António Arroio, she completed the 3 year course in Cinema / Moving Image at Ar.Co School (Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual) in Lisbon, where she was asked to undertake the role of department monitor/assistant in 2018. While attending Ar.Co, she concurrently took both theoretical and practical courses and workshops between photography, cinema and sound art at Nova University Lisbon (FCSH), Oficinas do Convento and other independent associations. She has participated in projects and artistic residencies across Portugal and has collaborated with peers on several film shoots in different roles, but mostly as a sound engineer. At the start of 2020 she joined fellow filmmaker Camila Vale to create the Espiral Laboratory - a super 8 film processing studio in Barreiro where she developed her first experimental short movie depth wish. Currently she is finishing the Advanced Course of Visual Arts at Ar.Co Almada.
In the Antechamber of Consciousness | Na Antessala da Consciência
Portugal | 11’37’’ | 2022
Realizadora|Director: Sally Santiago
Produção | Production: Sally Santiago
Synopsis
An internal journey through the constant reconfigurations of a particular and intimate space that fulfills its duty to transform and shape itself in a distinct and personalized way. An inaugural portrait of an active consciousness that knows little about what it will come to know, but that even so, insists on the attempt at assimilation. In the Antechamber of Consciousness is based on a spatial metaphor that supposes the existence of a restricted space where thoughts dwell before being uttered and where emotions are felt before being named. A reverie of the thinking being maintaining the routine of his existence.
Biography
Sally Santiago is a Brazilian visual artist and researcher currently living and working in Porto, Portugal. With creations strongly centered on the grandeur of nature, her projects mainly inhabit the field of video, experimental and installations. She holds a master's degree in contemporary art creation (UA/PT) and a bachelor's degree in social communication (UAM/BR). In 2022 she inaugurated her first solo exhibition, Itineraries of thinking: the intimate and the world, in Porto. She has experience in communication studies in Brazil, collaboration with CoCA in New Zealand and is currently part of the team of cultural institutions Cultivamos Cultura and Ectopia, in Portugal.
Lily, Helena, Sisi and Mathilda | Lily, Helena, Sisi and Mathilda
Portugal | 04’16’’ | 2022
Realizadora|Director: Daniela Zahlner
Produção | Production: Movimento
Synopsis
In the year 1862, Princess Mathilde Windischgrätz, Helena von Taxis, Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary and Countess Lily Hunyady, pose for a photo on the island of Madeira. They wear sailor’s shirts and hats and each of them holds a prop: A local Ukulele, an umbrella, a little dog and a shotgun. Earlier this year I participated in Movimento – a workshop for collective filmmaking in Barril de Alva, Portugal. The result is a playful reenacting of the scene, dressing up in makeshift costumes, re-scripting the relation between the characters and the landscape as well as the gesture and pose itself: An attempt of appropriation.
Biography
Daniela Zahlner, born in Austria in the 80s, works between Fine Arts, Film and Performance. She studied Filmmaking at the School Friedl Kubelka and Film/Media Theory and Fine Arts in Vienna and Glasgow. Selected works for cinema: Wet Streaming III - fuck my ficus (2021), For the Soft Glow Ahead (2020), For the Shape of Columns (2017), She Bop (2017), Take me to Pemberley (2015), Ex Voto (2013), Girl and Smoke Series (2013), Sexy 8 (2012), Bolex Mon Amour (2011), RGB Donau (2011), Kamera Rot (2010).
The House in the North| A Casa do Norte
Portugal | 08’55’’ | 2021
Realizadora|Director: Inês Lima
Produção | Production: Catarina Alves, Inês Lima / Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola
Synopsis
Peach trees, neighbors, ladders and chickens,
rabbits, letters, friends and kitchens,
pesky kids, love on the corners,
don’t faint again,
just cross your fingers.
Houses are made of stones and bricks,
until they are made of stories and tricks.
Biography
Born in Portugal, 1995. Graduated from the Lisbon School of Theatre and Film in the field of filmmaking in 2016. Her graduation film De Madrugada had its international premiere at SSIFF, and was awarded in Japan, Indonesia and Portugal. She continued her studies in Photography at the Lisbon Fine Arts School and then Philosophy and Aesthetic studies at NOVA Lisbon University. Currently she attends the filmmaking master at Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola while programming for the IndieLisboa Film Festival.