Filmmaking Seminar

OCT 18 / from 2.00 pm to 5.30 pm, São Jorge 2
First session – Bo Wang and Rachael Rakes

OCT 19 / from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm, São Jorge 2
Second session – Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko and Aruna D’Souza

OCT 20 / from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm, São Jorge 2
Third session – Courtney Stephens and Julia Gunnison

OCT 21 / from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm, São Jorge 2
Fourth session – Travis Wilkerson and Victor Guimarães

OCT 18 / 11.00 am, São Jorge 3
The Revolution Will Not Be Air-conditioned, by Bo Wang
Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez, by Travis Wilkerson

OCT 18 / 7.00 pm, Culturgest – Small Aud.
A Donkey, by Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat
Lovers’ Wind, by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko
Postscript, by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko

OCT 19 / 7.15 pm, Culturgest – Small Aud.
Invention, by Courtney Stephens

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The seminar will be held on-site and in English, with no translation.
Selected participants only.

Fee: 30€, subject to a selection process.
Maximum number of participants: 30.

Sessions will be recorded.

Artist, filmmaker, and researcher. His works have been exhibited all over the world and he won major international awards, including New:Vision at CPH:DOX, and Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig. Received a fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2013, and was an artist-in-residence at the ACC-Rijksakademie from 2017 to 2018, as well as at the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2016. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam.

Writer and director. Her work has explored historical geographies, the public unconscious, and the texture of women’s lives. Her films have been exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Barbican, Royal Geographical Society, Walker Art Center, Thailand Biennale, and in film festivals including Berlinale, Viennale, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, SXSW, and the New York Film Festival. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship.

Have worked in collaboration since 2013, exploring the interplay of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures, and seeking to both decode their surroundings and trouble the production of images through speculative narration and dialectical imagery. Recent projects have been presented at Mercer Union (Toronto), MoMA, e_flux, Flaherty Seminar, Berlinale, and several international film festivals.

His internationally recognised body of filmmaking crosses boundaries with documentary and fiction, performance, and activism. At the epicentre of his work is the ongoing search for meeting points of aesthetic eloquence and political engagement, produced with an absolute modesty of material resources, as self-sufficiently as possible. In 2015, Sight & Sound called Wilkerson “the political conscience of American cinema.” His films have screened worldwide.

Writer and critic based in New York. Her work focuses on artists of the global majority and on art whose intersecting aesthetic and political possibilities allow us to imagine new, more just, more kind forms of life. Her new book, Imperfect Solidarities, was published in July 2024. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board, and she is a regular contributor to the New York Times.

Writer, editor, and arts administrator. Her essays, reviews, and interviews have been published in outlets including Los Angeles Review of Books, Reverse Shot, Screen Slate, and Bright Wall/Dark Room. Co-founder and editor of Syllabus, a weekly publication for nontraditional syllabi, which celebrates rogue pedagogies and alternative writing forms. Former coordinator for the Sundance Documentary Fund. Volunteers at Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn.

Writer, curator, educator, and researcher. Artistic director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023). Committee member of the New York Film Festival, editor at large for Verso Books, and contributing editor for Infrasonica. Teaches in the Artificial Times Masters department (Sandberg), and on curating the moving image (Leiden University). Editor of the publications This, Too, Is a Map (2023), Toward the Not-Yet (2021), and Practice Space (2019).

Film critic, programmer, and professor. His work has appeared in publications such as Cinética, Con Los Ojos Abiertos, Senses of Cinema, Outskirts, La Vida Útil, La Furia Umana, Documentary Magazine, and Cahiers du Cinéma. Programmer at FICValdivia (Chile) and artistic director of FENDA – Experimental Festival of Film Arts (Brazil). Has curated programmes for spaces such as XCèntric (Barcelona), Essay Film Festival (London) and Woche der Kritik (Berlin).

Founder of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, which produces events, workshops, documentary projects, collaborative studios, summer labs for feature projects in pre-production, the UNDO Fellowship, publications and an on-line membership platform. The projects he has initiated, including Living Los Sures, Documenting Mythologies, Capitol of Punk and Yellow Arrow, have united hundreds of artists, documentarians and communities.

Co-artistic director of UNDO, which she joined in 2016 after learning with a variety of arts spaces and nonprofits. Has produced 600+ screenings, workshops, and public programmes, supporting initiatives like artist development labs, publications, an online membership platform, and the UNDO Fellowship. Has guest lectured at Columbia University and Bard College, and served on juries. Earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in cinema studies and English.

Writer, editor, and translator. Co-founder and artistic director of Wendy’s Subway. Writes for Artforum, e-flux, Frieze, BOMB and others. Has translated literary and critical texts for Semiotext(e), Pluto Press and Éditions Lutanie, among others. Curated exhibitions, performances and public programmes. Earned a MPhil in art history. Teaches art history, performance, art writing, and critical thinking at New York University and The New School.