Fuso Insular Showcase

FUSO Insular is a creative residency program and a video art showcase in the Azores. It began in 2019, following on from FUSO Lisboa. There was a gap in the artistic scene of the Azores archipelago in terms of knowledge and training in the area of the moving image. With the aim of fostering artistic creation in the Azores, we developed the Moving Image Laboratory, a space/time dedicated to the creation of video works. It is a residency program whose purpose is to give people who live in the Azores - whether they are artists or not - and who are interested in the cinematographic arts, the opportunity to create their own video projects, providing them with content and references and supporting them in the development and realization of their work. Between theoretical and practical meetings, it encourages reflection on the moving image as an artistic expression that cuts across all practices.

The works presented in this edition of FUSO were created during last year’s Moving Image Laboratory. Catarina Mourão, filmmaker, was responsible for the theoretical component and the artist André Laranjinha for the practical accompaniment. During the Azorean summer, in weekly meetings and in a collaborative process, the participants proposed ideas, created scripts, captured images and sounds and ventured into editing islands to tell their stories.

Ana Cabral invents an emotional inheritance in search of a past that she never lived; The Atelineiras - Bia, Carol, Inês and Xico, created an herbarium of autochthonous plants of the Azorean landscape to confront and question the notions of diversity in this flora; Catarina Fernandes offers us a gesture of love; Maria Emanuel Albergaria films seducing and compelling scenes that led her to a reflection on the importance of growing and caring; Maria João Sousa makes the invisible visible; Sandra Medeiros reflects on the traits we have and do not want to acknowledge; Willian Fonseca evokes his origins to address the situation of migrants.

Whether autobiographical or fictional, these works have the Azorean territory as their common denominator.