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Film cycle Africanities and Their Human Landscapes
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Open-Air Amphitheatre Gulbenkian Garden
The film cycle Africanities and Their Human Landscapes brings to the Summer Garden a selection of nine fiction films, divided into three sessions.
The first session of this cycle brings together productions from the last five years that showcase the diversity of black cinema made in Portugal. The five films reveal images that have been systematically made invisible by mainstream productions, due to the reiteration of racist interpretations of colonised countries.
This set of works manages to break with this tradition by presenting these images to an audience unaccustomed to films produced by people who question the official narratives about colonisation.
The session will be introduced by Vânia Luz and moderated by Maíra Zenun.
The film cycle Africanities and Their Human Landscapes gathers a selection of nine fiction, documentary and experimental films, including shorts and features, presenting the public with a relevant overview of recent productions.
The works are part of a production that flourished with the race pictures in the United States and the struggles for independence in Africa, between the 1950s and 1970s, and has continued to grow and improve, always focused on the vision of black people.
In the summer of 2024, a year that celebrated dates as important as the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April and the 100th anniversary of Amílcar Cabral's birth, we're going to unveil these stories, listen to their versions of time and let ourselves be carried away by the poetics that make up this black cinematography, which is increasingly interesting, plural, powerful and potent.
This cycle makes visible what can no longer be hidden: that Europe is diverse, made up of people from various cultures, creeds and backgrounds, people who, on a daily basis, make up the foundations and pillars of our society.
Image: Still from the film Fruto do Vosso Ventre, by Fábio Silva
Summer Garden 2024
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Biographies
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David J. Amado
Choreographer and filmmaker. He graduated in Music from Columbia University, New York. His work lies at the intersection of the fine arts, the queer intellectual and the ghetto. With a multicultural heritage and a career spanning three continents, David J. Amado approaches choreography, film and fashion with a differentiated and inclusive mindset, where audiences have the opportunity to expand their conceptions of the versatility of the black body, as well as that of ballet. His films have been presented at various film festivals.
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Diogo 'Gazella' Carvalho
Diogo was born in Lisbon, a city that forced him and his family to move to a suburb called Linha de Sintra. His artistic life began at an early age, but it was in France that he found his artistic vision and way of thinking. Never forgetting his upbringing, he dives headfirst into meaningful and profound projects, from cinema to painting, theatre and photography, with an activist outlook and using art as a weapon. In Portugal, in 2018, he co-founded the artistic collective Unidigrazz, bringing novelty to the Portuguese cultural circuit.
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Fábio Silva
Fábio has a master’s degree in Cinema at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. In 2018 he directed his first film, Hip to da Hop. He directed the short films A Morte de Isaac and Fruto do Vosso Ventre, both of which were selected for several national and international festivals. He is currently working on his next feature-length documentary entitled As Tuas Costas Ainda Ardem.
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Luan Okun
Trans non-binary, born in the interior of Minas Gerais, they began their artistic studies in 2010. In 2014, they studied Theatre at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil, where they began their artistic and performance productions. In 2020, they contributed to the materialisation of Casa T Lisboa and took part in various initiatives, including their individual performance project O jeito que o Corpo dá. Currently living in Lisbon, they have used body practices as the main tools for their artistic endeavours.
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Maíra Zenun
She is an immigrant multidisciplinary artist, mother and sociologist, a Brazilian poet in transit. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, raised in Petrópolis, grew up between Goiás and Brasília, and now lives on the Linha de Sintra in Portugal. Co-creator of the Nêga Filmes Cultural Association, she develops transdisciplinary projects in visual arts, cinema, curating, education, photography, poetry and performance. Since 2016, she has coordinated and curated various film cycles and exhibitions, such as the Mostra Internacional de Cinema na Cova – África e suas Diásporas.
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Petra.Preta | Sara Fonseca da Graça
A transdisciplinary artist, she has a degree in Theatre – Acting from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. Through a fusion of artistic practices, she navigates liminal spaces between fiction and biography, seeking to map healing processes. Her illustrations, paintings and texts give rise to books, installations and performances. This disciplinary crossover serves as a reflection of the intersectionalities that run through her experience and as a vehicle for transforming languages and creating safe imaginaries.
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Vânia Luz
She is a Cape Verdean actress with a Law degree. In Cape Verde, she was part of the audiovisual company Tal & Qual and participated as an actress in various shows and training courses in the fields of theatre, dance and music. She left for Lisbon in 2019 to study for a master’s degree in Theatre with a specialisation in Theatre and Community at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. She is currently studying Cultural Production at the Instituto de Produção Cultural e Imagem and has over 9 years of experience in theatre, dance and music.
Programme
Manchê Bom (2021)
I'll repeat myself: to be on the margin is to be part of a whole that doesn't recognise you as part of the main body. It involves a repetitive crossing from the outside to the inside. And with entering comes the obligation to leave. From there to here, resisting violence. From here to there, resisting violence.
Tabanka was a proposal for a safe and changeable space, between protection and healing.
And this is a way to get there. A map in reverse, where treasures are returned. Because this is about reversing paths and trying to reclaim the space of the dream.
*A note to remind you that rest is also a measure of freedom.
Duration: 11'51''
*A note to remind you that rest is also a measure of freedom.
Duration: 11'51''
Cu.r.andeiro (2023)
The ass that walks moves.
Duration: 11'06''
Duration: 11'06''
Fruto do Vosso Ventre (2021)
A son discovers his father's old 8mm tapes. And, for the first time, he sees footage from before his birth, from his childhood and adolescence. When he sees them, he returns to the house where he grew up and begins an investigation into his parents, trying to understand the trauma he has experienced all his life.
Duration: 19'55''
Duration: 19'55''
Velveteen (2022)
The desire to be seen and accepted as we really are is one of the deepest human desires and is the central theme of the dance film Velveteen. Inspired by the book The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, Velveteen chronicles the journey of a queer black man from self-hatred and repression to self-discovery and acceptance. With dance and poetry, we accompany the protagonist as he navigates ancestral traumas, racism and homophobia in order to heal, find community and live an authentic life, free from the expectations of others.
Duration: 32'
Duration: 32'
Nha Fidju (2023)
A love letter from a mother to her son (Fidju) lamenting the death of innocence and embracing reality, the death of dreams and embracing the cost of living and accepting the walls that have been put in place.
Duração: 5'
Duração: 5'
Credits
Manchê Bom
Production, performance, text and painting: Petra.Preta
Photography: Saint. / Jaylson da Graça
Editing: Nêga Filmes
Sound landscape: Petra.Preta and Maíra Zenun
Audio: Sara Morais
Graffiti: unknown authors
Co-production: Teatro do Bairro Alto
Acknowledgements: Lisa Monteiro and Fernando da Graça, Diogo Simões, João Reis Moreira, Maíra Zenun, Vera Marques, Hangar (Centro de Investigação Artística) and O Camões Preto
This work is part of the project Primeiro Rascunho/TBA.
Cu.r. andeiro
Conception and production: Luan Okun
Performers: Luan Okun and Joni Ricos
3D art: YunaTurva
Digital art: Bruno Marcitelli
Images: Maíra Zenun and Luísa Melo
Editing: Nêga Filmes
Sound editing: Gustavo Juventino
Acknowledgements: Projeto VISTO PERMANENTE, Associação Casa T Lisboa, Grupo EducaR Grupo, Marcos Aganju, Maíra Zenun, Luísa Melo, Kopal, Gustavo Juventino, Bruno Marcitelli, Bruxa da Raba, Fayska
Video performance created for the project Fricções: Palcos da Dança, SESC PINHEIROS.
Fruto do Vosso Ventre
Assitant director: João Pedro Soares
Image and editing: Fábio Silva
Sound editing: André de Almeida
Poster: José Leal
Subtitling: Lily Chadwick
Cast: Cesaltina Tavares Silva and Fábio Silva
Velveteen
Executive production and coreography: David J. Amado
Music: Xu Lopes
Cinematography: Wilson Sanches
Texts: Apolo de Carvalho, Jahshua, David J. Amado
Cast: Lucas Jetzt, Augusto Amado, Marcus Deziderio, Gerson, Lukanu Mpasi, Igor Silva
With the support of: Ministério da Cultura de Portugal, Jazzy Dance Studios, Alkantara
Nha Fidju
Screenplay, edition, soundtrack Diogo 'Gazella' Carvalho
Cast: José, Pedro Henriques, Cátia Ramos Semedo
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