Almakina Video-Installation

Her films include “Quem é Bárbara Virgínia?”, “Os Cravos e a Rocha”, “#The Pioneers of Portuguese-Language Cinema”, “All Women Are Maria”, “O Que Podem as Palavras” (co-directed with Luísa Marinho), “Becomingness”, “Limite”, “Născută”, and “Memória, Substantivo Feminino”. On Portuguese television, she developed and hosted several projects, most notably Fotograma, a program she created dedicated to Portuguese-language cinema. She also collaborated with the shows Onda Curta and Cinemax, both on RTP2. In Brazil, alongside artist Sama, she created the experimental animation series Motel Sama, produced and aired by Canal Brasil. Luísa’s work has been presented in a wide range of contexts, including the Kaunas Biennale, the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, the Cinematheque of São Paulo, Masc Foundation in Vienna, the São Paulo International Film Festival, IFFR Rotterdam, DocLisboa, the Cinema Museum in London, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the University of Oxford, the Museum of Image and Sound of Ceará, the Cerveira Art Biennial, and the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center.

She has collaborated with the TEP (Teatro Experimental do Porto), exploring expanded cinema and video art. In addition to writing and directing the play “Rosas de Maio”, she created expanded cinema works for “Estro/Watts” by Gonçalo Amorim and Paulo Furtado, as well as for the stage production “Antígona”. She was selected for a film residency at the Meta Cultural Foundation in Romania and has held several exhibitions, including “Cine Constelação” at Masc Foundation (Vienna) and “A Luz da Estrela Morta” at Galeria Nuno Centeno. She recently participated in the Cerveira Biennial and the group exhibition Vermelho Vivo at the Museum of Sound and Image of Ceará, as part of the 3rd edition of the Solar Photo Festival.

Together with artist Sama, she co-founded Oficina Imperfeita, a space dedicated to developing anti-hegemonic artistic practices. She is also the founder and organizer of Shortcutz Porto and the Super 9 Mobile Film Fest. Currently, while working on new projects in film, theatre, and exhibition, she is co-curating the program Seleção Nacional at Batalha Centro de Cinema with Carlos Natálio and Joana Gusmão.