Ecology and Feminism I
Black Gaze – Showcase of Black Cinema in Portugal
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Date
- 17:00 / Cancelled 17:00 / Sold out Saturday, 17:00
Location
Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianPricing
10% – Cartão Gulbenkian and Cartão Gulbenkian Mais
Produced at the heart of a transnational public counter-sphere, the Black Gaze in Portuguese cinema is frequently shaped by women and queer people. The intersectional difference (gender-race-class) that marks their life experiences is conveyed in the lenses through which they choose to film. Between the moral imperative to imagine alternative worlds and the daily need to survive, these directors make cinema a space of resistance and creation.
The inhabitants of ‘The Island’ (2022), Mónica de Miranda’s ecofeminist island – a space situated between reality and imagination – move towards an ‘enchanted science,’ evoking African epistemologies in order to find themselves again. In this gesture, they forge paths to free themselves from the yoke of colonialism and embark on other modes of life.
The narrative follows two women, two men and various children who learn to challenge the patriarchal logic of the Human as universal and superior, perceiving themselves as Other-Humankind, situated between water, stone, tree, horse, fire, and more-than-human and ghostly presences.
‘Homestay’ (2017), by Lolo Arziki, also takes place on an island – Maio, in Cape Verde. The documentary follows the community tourism programme in which women, heads of family, welcome visitors into their homes, finding in the project a vital source of income and economic empowerment.
Biographies
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Lolo Arziki
Lolo Arziki is a filmmaker, writer, curator, educator and a non-binary LGBTQI+ rights activist. She was born in Cape Verde and grew up in diaspora between Portugal and Luxembourg. She has directed five short films including documentaries and video-performances, and most recently published her first book entitled ‘Águas para te beber amor’ (Waters for you to drink love) with the publisher Urutau. Her works broach topics such as sexuality, Blackness, social inclusion, memory and aesthetic experimentation.
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Mónica de Miranda
Mónica de Miranda is a Luso-Angolan visual artist, filmmaker and researcher whose interdisciplinary, research-based practice critically analyses the convergence between politics, gender, memory, space and history. Her work encompasses drawing, installation, photography, cinema and sound, on the borderline between documentary and fiction. She is the founder of Hangar (2014), an art and research centre in Lisbon. As an artist and co-curator of the Greenhouse project, Mónica represented the Portugal Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024. Her work is represented in public and private collections around the world.
Programme
17:00 / ‘The Island’, by Mónica de Miranda
17:40 / ‘Homestay’, by Lolo Arziki
18:00 / Conversation with Kitty Furtado and Lolo Arziki
18:40 / Closing
Credits
'The Island', by Mónica de Miranda
Directing and Original Story
Mónica de Miranda
Script and Text
Mónica de Miranda
Yara Nakhanda Monteiro
Art direction
Mónica de Miranda
Director of Photography
Rui Sérgio Afonso
Production
Studio Mónica de Miranda
Cast
Anilson Eugénio
Isabél Zuua
Mauro Hermínio
Nádia Yracema
Yara Milengo
L.G.C. Maseko
Copper Ray
Boom Operator
Vicente Booth
Sound Design, Music and Mixing
Filipe Ridolfi
Assistant Director and Assistant Producer
Anna Jarosz
Editing
Miguel Tavares
Editing Assistant
Andrea Ghisu
Post-production and Colourist
Xavier Franganito
Post-production Assistant
Bianca Corsini
Support
Arts Council of England
Autograph
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Fundação Obras
Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística
A Outra Face da Lua
Acknowledgements
António Vicente
Arlindo
Almerindo Pico Lino
Ana Almeida
Caroline Van Der Laan
Carla Ferreira
Carla Belchior
Daniel Dias
Helena Inverno
Jabulani Maseko
Joana Rosa
Luís Passarinho
Luís Pintassilgo
Ludger Van Der Eerden
Renee Mussai
Mark Sealy
Café Restaurante “O Emigrante” (Évora Monte)
Rio a Dentro (Escaroupim)
Zaratran – Arte Contemporânea
Commissioned by
Autograph, Londres
'Homestay', by Lolo Arziki
Director
Lolo Arziki
Cinematography
Ricardo F. Mendes
Editing and Post-Production
Rafael Vieira
Editing Assistant
Lolo Arziki
Sound
Djoy Faustino
Graphic design
Tais rodrigues da Silva
Production
Janet Agues
Djoy Faustino
Arnau Teixidor
Production assistant
Mafalda Nadas
Lolo Arziki
Support
Ministério do Ambiente de Cabo Verde, Darwin Initiative, Fundação Maio Biodiversidade, Fauna & Flora International, Município de Maio, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Department of the Interior
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