António Braga

Antonio Braga is an actor, Diretor and drama teacher, with 25 years of experience in amateur and professional theatre. He has been working with children, youngsters and adults since 2007, using theatre as a personal development tool in its pedagogical, therapeutic and social components.

Gabriela Oliveira

Gabriela Oliveira was born in the Azores, where she lives and works. She is a biologist and environmental manager and is responsible for environmental awareness projects.  She had previously worked as a tourist guide in whale watching. Oliveira is also an amateur photographer.

Gregory Le Lay (1977-2023)

Gregory Le Lay (in memory) explores, in his work, all the possible exhibition supports to articulate fragmented worlds and build assemblages, objects, videos or sounds, in a dynamic game with architecture. His exhibitions attract the visitor in an organic relationship with the signs. The forms that he proposes to cross are scenarios with multiple understandings that question our perception and our potential to juggle with it.

Laura Brasil

Laura Brasil is an Azorean Diretor, born in Angra do Heroísmo. She was always eager to explore the deep meaning of things and of the human consciousness and has always been fascinated by the art of storytelling. She graduated in Cinema from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema de Lisboa. Currently, she is bringing photography and video together in installations.

Marco Machado

Marco Machado was born last century, in 1981. He graduated in Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication Sciences. In 2015 he began working with art and with contemporary artists, thrilled by the possibilities of encountering other worlds and other universes.

Mariana Pacheco de Medeiros

Mariana Pacheco de Medeiros is born in Ponta Delgada and moves to Lisbon in 2012 to study theatre at ESTC – Lisbon’s Film and Theatre School. In 2015 she completes the course oriented by Jean Paul Bucchieri and David Antunes with the presentation of the piece “27 doses”. In 2023, creates and performs ‘A Loba’, a performative work presented at Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Azores and at the Temps d’Images festival in Lisbon.

Rodrigo Mota

Rodrigo Mota was born on the island of São Miguel, Azores, in 1996. He took a course in Film and Television at ETIC in Lisbon, in 2018/19. Currently he is a freelancer in the fields of video and photography.

Sara Massa

Sara Massa was born in São Miguel, but doesn’t like orange juice. She likes to be busy doing random things and finding out new thigs. She is 21 years old and studies Visual Arts. For her, discovering new visual ways of interpreting life is pleasant; since she was a little girl art has been a refuge from reality where everything is possible, a utopian world.

Yuri Firmeza

Yuri Firmeza is a professor of the Cinema and Audiovisual course at the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil), where he is a member of the Laboratory of Audiovisual Studies and Experimentation. Doctoral candidate in Multimedia Art at the University of Lisbon and collaborating member of CIEBA (Center for Research and Studies in Fine Arts). He has participated in film festivals and exhibitions in several cities in Brazil and abroad, including the 31st São Paulo Biennial; 14th Biennale Jogja: Stage of Hopelessness – Yogyakarta / Indonesia; 21st Videoex – International Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich/ Switzerland; 64th and 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen/Germany, 11th Mercosul Biennial and the individual exhibition Turvações Estratigráficas, at the Rio de Janeiro Art Museum (MAR).

Charles Case

Charles Case was born in 1969 in Belgium and lives and works all over the place. He is a filmmaker, photographer, and artist. He studied Graphic Communication at La Chambre and his work is inspired by Dumas, Orozco, Basquiat, and Kapoor. He made his first films in 1997 and directed several short films, and installations: Friday, June 18 (1999), City of London (1999), Man Walking (2004), Atomic Tree (2006), Woman Walking (2006), Inner Eclipse (2012), Guide de politesse à l’attention de nos forces de l’ordre (2014).

Lothar Hempel

Lothar Hempel was born in 1966. He lives and works in Cologne. He draws his inspiration from German history, Californian New Wave, Greek tragedy, pagan culture, music, and cinema. What matters to him is not the reference as such — taken for what it is or for what it conveys in today’s Western society — but a re-appropriation of these images and this reality to circulate within his individual universe, taking possession of them and thus creating a series of possibilities for specific interpretations by each individual person, in a journey between reality and dream.

Teun Hocks

Teun Hocks (1947-2022)

The author of a small theater of the strange, Teun Hocks writes stories without plot and creates untitled paintings, allowing the viewer to freely interpret the meaning - or rather the nonsense - of the images presented to them. His physical omnipresence does not mean he is imposing. He gives us the possibility to inhabit his works, temporarily absenting himself from them, as in the video where he clings to a chandelier swinging back and forth endlessly, intermittently forced to leave the camera’s field of vision and that of our gaze.

Kelly Lamb

Kelly Lamb is an artist and designer born in 1969 and based in Los Angeles. For more than twenty years, she has worked in various disciplines such as sculpture, video, ceramics, furniture, and interior design.

Alexandre Perigot

Alexandre Perigot, born in 1959, lives and works in Paris. Through videos, installations, music, and dance, Perigot works to uncover the signs of the society of the spectacle. The territory of his works is situated in the turbulence of the interface between social space and the constitution of the singular self. Attuned to the reality of the world and its multiple manifestations in our society, he is constantly aware of the illusory mechanisms of identification: how do we let ourselves be seduced by celebrity? The models of representing reality, especially through video games, influence our behavior in our daily lives? Is it possible that we use the larger-than-life persona that we often assign to celebrities as a template for constructing our own identity?

Manfred Sternjakob

Manfred Sternjakob, born in 1955, lives and works in Germany. He is a video artist whose works are pictorial compositions that stand out for their movement. Influenced by his childhood spent in West Germany and by the American education that shaped him, Manfred Sternjakob weaves references taken from these two cultures which nourish his vivid paintings.

La Ribot

La Ribot, born in 1962 in Madrid, lives and works in Spain and Switzerland. She is a renowned artist who works internationally. She studied classical dance in Madrid from the age of thirteen and embraced performance and contemporary dance in the mid-80s. She worked initially in Cannes with Rosella Hightower and then in Germany and New York. Upon returning to Madrid, she created her first piece in 1985, Carita de Ángel. The following year, she founded the Bocanada Danza group with Blanca Calvo, which dissolved in 1989. In the early 90s, she choreographed her first solo work, Socorro! Gloria!, which takes the form of a humorous cabaret show: thus La Ribot was born.

Claudia Triozzi

Claudia Triozzi began her studies in classical and contemporary dance in Italy, before moving to Paris in 1985. In addition to her work as a performer (with Odile Duboc, Georges Appaix, François Verret, Alain Buffard, Xavier Leroy and Xavier Boussiron), she creates her own pieces as a theatre Diretor and performer. Her research work is based on transmission, in which the experience of doing, sharing, and committing to others opens up spaces for subjectivity and a different configuration of time.

Ufuoma Essi

Ufuoma Essi is a filmmaker and artist from south-east London whose work spans film, moving image, photography and sound. Using the archive as an essential medium, her work revolves around Black feminist epistemology and the configuration of displaced histories, with the aim of interrogating and disrupting the silences and gaps of political and historical narratives. Recent screenings, solo and group exhibitions include South London Gallery, Public Gallery, London, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick; Lisson Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Maysles Documentary Center, New York; and Black Star Film Festival, Philadelphia. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Is My Living in Vain at Gasworks, London (Autumn 2022) and Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland (2023).

Dan Guthrie

Dan Guthrie is an artist, researcher and writer whose practice often explores representations of Black Britishness, with an interest in examining how they manifest themselves in rural areas. In the last year, he has been a participant in East Bristol Contemporary’s Day School programme, a panel member for Stroud District Council’s review of streets, buildings, statues and monuments, and a part-time librarian. His work has been shown at the Whitstable Biennale, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Focal Point Gallery, Obsidian Coast and the ICA, and he has previously worked as a submissions viewer for the London Short Film Festival and Glasgow Short Film Festival.

Arjuna Neuman

Arjuna Neuman was born on an aeroplane: that’s why he has two passports. He is an artist, filmmaker and writer. With recent presentations at CCA Glasgow; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Manifesta 10, Marseille; Showroom Gallery, London; TPW Gallery, Toronto; Forum Expanded, Berlin Berlinale; Jameel Art Centre, Dubai; Berlin Biennial 10, Germany; Serpentine, London X Qalandia Biennial, Palestine; Gasworks, London; Bold Tendencies, London, UK; Or Gallery, Vancouver; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; MAAT and Docslisboa, Portugal; Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE; Bergen Assembly, Norway; at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore; the 56th Venice Biennale and SuperCommunity; Industry of Light, London; the Haus Der Kulturen der Welt; at Ashkal Alwan and the Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon; Le Gaite Lyric, Paris; the Canadian Centre for Architecture; and the Rat School of Art, Seoul amongst others. As a writer he has published essays in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Magazine, Concord, Art Voices, Flaunt, LEAP, Hearings and e-flux.

Rhea Storr

Rhea Storr explores Black and Mixed-race cultural representation with an interest in the in-between, the culturally ineffable, translation, format and aesthetics. She is concerned with performance, costume and the politics of masquerade. In particular she has employed carnival as a means to articulate a complex relationship between Britain and the Caribbean that underlines the importance of location. She also images Black and Mixed-race bodies in rural spaces. Often working in photochemical film, Rhea Storr considers counter-cultural ways of producing moving-image. Selected exhibitions/screenings include: BFI London Film Festival, Artists’ Film International, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, European Media Art Festival, Museum of African American History and Culture and Somerset House and Lisson Gallery. She is the winner of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2020 and the Louis Le Prince Experimental Film Prize.

Arwa Aburawa e Turab Shah

Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are a filmmaking duo who share a dedication to examining race, migration and the ongoing legacies of colonialism through film. They are based in London, UK and their work has been exhibited at Humber Street Gallery, Wellcome Trust, Phillida Reid Gallery and the National Gallery of Art in the US. Their latest film ‘I Carry It With Me Everywhere’ was supported by the Brent Biennial 2022 and LUX. Together, Arwa & Turab co-founded Other Cinemas, an award-winning project dedicated to supporting the work of Black and non-white filmmakers through free community screenings and a year-long film school. Other Cinemas was recognised as a Film London Lodestar in 2022 and was awarded the ‘Support Structure for Support Structures’ fellowship by the Serpentine Gallery.

Charles Atlas

Charles Atlas is one of the premier interpreters of dance, theater and performance on video. Working in film, video, installation, theater and performance for four decades, he has created works for screen, stage, gallery, and television. A pioneer in the development of media-dance, he transforms this genre into a provocative and ironic collusion of narrative and fictional modes with performance documentaries. He has collaborated with international performers and choreographers, including Merce Cunningham, Michael Clark, Leigh Bowery, John Kelly, Karole Armitage and Bill Irwin. 

After first working in film, Atlas was a pioneer of videodance, collaborating on performance works created specifically for the two-dimensional space, intimate scale and temporality of video.
Atlas lives and works in New York.

Ricardo Grelha

Ricardo Grelha was born in 1995 in Faro. He has a bachelor’s degree in History from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH). Not being interested in pursuing an academic career he decided to change course and follow his passion for cinema. He is currently in the first year of the Cinema/Moving Image course at Ar.Co, in Lisbon.

Inês Falcão

Inês Falcão was born in Ponta Delgada in 2002. Her artistic career started in the island of São Miguel. She integrates the multidisciplinary collective Atelineiras. It is within the collective that she started to experiment and to grow creatively, and to present her work in various art spaces and festivals. She moved to Lisbon when she was nineteen to enter the Artistic Studies course from the Faculty of Letters and Humanities (FLUL). She is currently doing the Cinema/Moving Image course at Ar.Co, in Lisbon.

Frances Rocha

Frances Rocha was born in Brazil twenty-four years ago. She lives and works in Lisbon. She is studying Cinema/Moving Image at Ar.Co, in Lisbon. She has a bachelor’s degree in Design. Her photography lies at the intersection of digital and analogue imaging. She is now beginning an experimental trajectory in Audiovisual (AV) with a focus in Direction of Photography.

Stephanie Kyek

Stephanie Kyek is an artist whose work addresses movement and sound. She is based in Lisbon where she is in the process of finishing Ar.Co’s course. Kyek’s work resides on the boundary between experiment and fiction, and is defined by a strong focus on sound. Playing with the combination and interaction between sound and image allows the artist to explore alternative dynamics in her audiovisual projects in order to increase the sensitivity of the audience to sound. She is the recipient of an honorable mention from FNAC Novos Talentos and a Balaclava Noir open call award.

Rivane Neuenschwander

Heir to the historical legacy of the post-war avant-garde movements, from the Neo-concrete to Tropicália, Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967) is one of the most celebrated names in contemporary Brazilian art. In her work, the artist makes use of a variety of different mediums and medias to create a unique universe exploring narratives on a diverse range of themes, such as language and time, literature and popular culture, psychoanalysis and art, nature and society, politics and philosophy, fear and desire.

Gabriel Abrantes

Gabriel Abrantes, born in North Carolina, United States, in 1984. His films have premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and Semaine de la Critique - Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival, the Venice Biennial, and the Toronto International Film Festival. They have been distinguished with a number of awards, including the Grand Prix at the Semaine de la Critique, the EFA prize at Berlinale, the Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival, and the EDP Young Artist Award. His work has been exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Britain (London), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the MIT List Visual Arts Center (Boston), the Kunst Werke (Berlin) and Serralves Museum (Porto). He participated in the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, the 2016 Bienal Tropical, and the 2014 Bienal d’Image Mouvement. His work has been shown in retrospective screening series at the Lincoln Center (New York) and BAFICI (Buenos Aires).

He currently lives and works in Lisbon.

Mariana Lacerda

Mariana Lacerda was born in Recife. She lives and works in São Paulo. Filmmaker and documentarist, she addresses in her films subjects such as: memory, environment, Indigenism, violence, and feminism. She has directed short films and episodes for a TV series. Her first feature film, called Gyuri (2020), is about the encounter of Claudia Andujar with Davi Kopenawa, and the demarcation of Yanomami Indigenous Lands in the Amazon. Lacerda directed the TV series Histórias de Fantasmas Verdadeiros para Crianças (True Ghost Stories for Children), about the Brazilian military dictatorship. Her films have been shown in festivals and in exhibitions in Mexico, The Netherlands, Lithuania, France, Spain and Portugal. She collaborates with the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA, the Socio-Environmental Institute), and the  Movimento Sem Teto do Centro (MSTC, the Movement to End Homelessness), both based in São Paulo.

Maxime Martinot

Maxime Martinot (1989) is a French film Diretor, editor and writer. Lives and works in Brittany, Paris and Lisbon. His work covers different practices and formats, from fiction feature films to short and experimental films, using the appropriation of images or autobiographical diaries. He studied cinema at Université Paris 8. His first feature film, Trois contes de Borges, received two awards at the FIDMarseille - Marseille International Film Festival in 2012 and was released in French theatres in 2018. His short essay Histoire de la Révolution won the Best Short Film Award at Entrevues Belfort. In 2022, his film Les Antilopes was selected by the Académie des César for the César for Best Documentary Short Film and won the Open Call of the FUSO – International Video Art Festival in Lisbon, and is represented in the collection of MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology.

António Olaio

António Olaio, Lubango, Angola, 1963. Lives in Coimbra. Painter and performer. His performances in the early 80’s led him to music. He was one of the founders of the rock group “Reporter Estrábico” in 1986 and, since 1995, the songs he makes with many different musicians are frequently presented in his videos and exhibitions. Solo exhibitions and performances in Portugal, Spain, Holland, Germany, USA, United Kingdom. Diretor of the College of Arts, University of Coimbra from 2013 to 2023.

Beatriz Soares Dias

Beatriz Soares Dias is a queer choreographer and performer who has been questioning language through her body. She navigates between states of empowerment, resistance, intimacy, freedom and sexuality - reflections of her personal rediscoveries - seeking time as a power of (re)construction of her identity as a person and artist. Highlights collaborations with Companhia Olga Roriz, Wbmotion Kulturverein, Tamara Cubas, André de Campos, Maurícia Neves, André Uerba, Diana de Sousa, Bruno Alexandre, Francisca Manuel, Mariana Magalhães and Teatro do Mar. She is a trainer at F.O.R. Dance Theatre, being interested in a reconfiguration of educational practices as potencies of change, proximity and manifest. She is developing E c o, an autobiographical project that talks about her breaking the silence to empower her sexuality and identity, with premiere scheduled for 2025.

Francisca Manuel

Francisca Manuel is an artist and film Diretor. She made a trilogy in the Azores between 2017 and 2023, with the video installations “Catherine ou 1786”, “Vale das Dúvidas” and “Seven days with the sea on my left”. Besides the fiction works “211 Avenue”, “Travel Shot”, “Madame” and the documentaries “Courage of Lassie” and “Jungle Red”, she collaborated with other creators in the direction of “Our Skin”, “Mina” and “The Gesture”. In 2011 and 2014, she worked in Brazil with the production companies Filmes de Quintal and Anavilhana. Member of O Lugar do Meio, a cultural and environmental association.

Francisca Dores

Francisca Dores, Porto 1998. Studied Video at EASR, and graduated in Audiovisual Communication Technology, at ESMAD. Currently, attending the Master in Cinema, at Escola das Artes, in a pursuit to refine and mature her authorial work. Alongside her work in the field of Cinema, as Diretor, screenwriter, sound Diretor and editor, she also worked on photography projects and sound explorations. Francisca was one of the founding members of the ORCA collective (Orchestra of Robots, Computers and Speakers), at ESMAD, and participated in Miguel Pipa’s Workshop for Experimentation and Alteration of Electronic Circuits and Noise Generators, with a live presentation at “Modes of Use - Workshop #1”, part of the Circular Festival. Francisca’s work explores the psychological, and creation is seen as an act of catharsis that is not independent of its creator.

Ian Capillé

Ian Capillé (1991) editor and filmmaker born in Rio de Janeiro, currently based in Lisbon. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from UFF (Brazil) and a master’s degree in Multimedia Art from FBAUL (Portugal), under the guidance of filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias. His early short films have been screened in various festivals in Brazil, winning several awards, including the Revelation Award at the São Paulo International Short Film Festival for the film “Se” (2013). In 2022, he was selected for the artistic residency at Casa do Xisto, working with 16mm celluloid film and presenting the result at Curtas Vila do Conde the same year. Ian is one of the founding members of Laboratório da Cave, a collective of filmmakers dedicated to learning and working with analog filming and handmade cinema, and he is also a member of CORTE - Portuguese Association of Film Editors.

João Saramago

João Saramago (1985) Lisboa/Cardiff. Portuguese born João Saramago trained at Lisbon’s renowned Escola Artística António Arroio, where he specialized in graphic design. Currently working between Cardiff, Wales and Lisbon, Portugal. Meditation and spiritual practice are at the core of his creative output, which he translates into intricate drawings. His practice extends to video, performance and site-specific to explore the human condition, vulnerability and absurdity of existence. Often in a playful way, he links personal and intimate experiences, recurring to repairing narratives using the landscape to meditate on current matters, setting a bridge between mental well-being and environmental issues.

Lula Pena

Lula Pena, 1974 (Lisboa)
Poet, composer and visual artist.

Maria Peixoto Martins

Maria Peixoto Martins, Almada, 1996. Lives and works in Lisbon.
In 2014, she began studying Film, Video, and Multimedia Communication, and in 2018, she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Photography at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias.
In her artistic practice, she primarily explores photography, video, and installation. She is dedicated to addressing social issues, often using humor, focusing on the psyche and the human body. Performance, representation, and self-representation occupy a central place in her projects. She increasingly examines the limits of digital photography, such as pixelation and chromatic aberrations.

Miguel Leonardo

Miguel Leonardo, Portuguese writer, actor and musician, has participated in several works in cinema and theater. He fell in love with cinema in his first work as a main character in Contra Tempo, by André Ivo for the 48 Hours Film Project. The Boy Who Dreamed Too Much is his first film, nominated at three festivals, in the UK and Lisbon. Nominated for the Joaquim de Almeida Grand Prize.

Rafael Raposo Pires

Rafael Raposo Pires (1994) is a Portuguese visual artist with a postgraduate degree in Multimedia Art (Moving Image) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. His artistic practice consists of performative photographs and videos produced along pedestrian drifts made in various urban spaces and also related to the body: about its movement in a given landscape and the limits of physical wear and tear. He exhibits regularly since 2018 in Portugal and abroad. In 2022 he was selected for the Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial, and participated in the artist residencies AiR_Cachopo (PT) and Default 22 (IT). In 2023 he obtained a mobility grant through the Culture Moves Europe program, funded by the European Union.

Ricardo Leandro

Ricardo Leandro (b. 1982) is a visual artist, filmmaker and creative producer based in Lisbon. His work has a strong presence of video and sound, installation and writing. Lately he has been developing projects that use transmedia practices where the concepts of art and entertainment are constantly put to the test, in order to create debates about the message of the artistic work and its relationship with the public.

Sarah Legow

Sarah Legow (1982, Youngstown, Ohio, USA) is a multimedia artist living in Porto, Portugal. She earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania (2016), BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2011), and BA in Art History from Grinnell College (2005). She has had screenings, exhibitions and site-specific projects shown the US, Canada, Germany, Finland, Czech Republic and South Korea, including at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum (Chicago), Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia), Tomato Mouse (Brooklyn), the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), and ArtSpace Bremerhaven (Bremerhaven, Germany). Her experimental fiction and poetry have appeared in Superpresent Magazine and Maintenant 16: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art.

Sofia Santa-Rita

Sofia Santa-Rita, born in Lisbon in 1994, holds a degree in Communication Design (2017) and a master in Contemporary Typographic and Editorial Practices (2023) from FBAUL, with projects in the field of concrete poetry and video-poems. Defining herself as a multidisciplinary artist, she has a penchant for the paradoxical nature of things, focusing mainly on the image/text relationship, combining poetry, writing and lyrics with photography and video. Endowed with a very flagrant sensory aspect, her work is born from the need to fill the gap between herself and the other. The genesis and consequently the culmination of her work is found in the impetus to tell stories, finding in cinema her current focus and ultimate inspiration.