Turner
2023
Country: UK/BR
Duration: 18 minutes | 39 Seconds
Colour, Sound: Stereo, Ratio: 16:9
Ella Turner exists in pink or blue. The film is a cyclothymic journey through colours and wavelengths, oscillating between low moods with little energy, to feelings of exuberance and high energy. Reminiscent of observational documentary television and educational videos, a narrator explains the science and history Ella can feel as she navigates the world. Like the film, she is just trying to fit in.
Maybe Nymph
2018
Country: Brazil
Duration: 6 mins | 03 Seconds
Colour Sound: Stereo, Ratio: 16:9
A Nymph tries to communicate with a logger who cannot see her. Inspired by the myth of Eco and Narcissus, Maybe Nymph uses the Brazilian Modernist concept of 'Antropofagia' to address an unequal relationship in different levels; woman/man, colonised/coloniser, oppressed/oppressor. Set in a forest, texts and other interferences disorientate the diegetic time of the film, and bring these characters to a contemporary discussion.
Starring: Jessica Fertonari Cooke and Felipe Dall'anese
Post-Production: BlankTape
Official Selection:
Future Now Symposium 2021 /Aesthetica Shortfilm Film Festival 2020 / Berlin Revolution 2020 /Festival de Petrópolis 2020 /Gstaadfilm, Leipzig 2019
Award Winner at Absurd Film Festival 2023
Words Above All
2022
Country: UK
Duration: 3 mins | 27 Seconds
B&W, Sound: Stereo, Ratio: 16:9
The project Face in the Hole aims to dissociate political discourse from political image through the dismemberment of the word. The moving image work “Palavras Acima de Tudo” registers a Brazilian politician’s discourse throughout the years, and a 2-meter-tall piece with the words translated to English is placed in a square in London.
Screened as part of the exhibition The Art of Fake News at the Rich Mix, London. May 2022.
Sem Mim (Without Me)
Video Art. 2023
Country: UK/PT
Duration: 3 mins | 02 seconds
After motherhood, she can't find herself in her own home. She is not the main character of her story.
Official Selection: Videobardo 2023, Lisbon Rendezvous 2023
The Anthill
In Post-production
2023
Country: UK/Brazil
Duration: 18 mins | 46 Seconds
Colour, Sound: Silent, Ratio: 16:9
The Anthill celebrates the advancement of Brazilian Indigenous activism and political participation. Engaging with Hito Steyerl’s text ‘In Defence of the Poor Image’ and Tom Kissock-Mamede’s research on Indigenous Video Activism, the film explores how poor images can act as a tool for restorative justice.
Historically, Indigenous groups in Brazil have had to convene in the modernist capital Brasilia, from all over the country to demand their rights. Through symbolic cosmovisions and mobile images, the film reclaims Brasilia as an indigenous territory through germination and emergence, creating a path for a more ancestral future. Captured in 2023, the same year the Ministry of Indigenous People was established in Brazil, The Anthill is simultaneously a celebration of indigenous victories and a reflection on the struggles encountered by indigenous groups.
Untitled Walk
2019
Country: UK
Duration: 1 mins |22 Seconds
Walking home at night is a gendered experience.
Read Me
2020
Country: UK
Duration: 8 mins | 39 Seconds
Colour, B&W, Sound: Silent, Ratio: 16:9
Read Me focuses on the authority of the written word on screen. Moving image is an arena of power for written text. Letters create meaning beyond the structure of the screen, and even an untranslated text remains a concept of knowledge within this space.
Good to See You
(ongoing)
This film addresses the experience of lockdown. I'm still working on this project to figure out long-term consequences.