Almakina Video-Installations

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  • Luísa Sequeira
15—18 OCT
Passos Manuel

What will be the future of cinema — and of humanity itself?
In an apocalyptic scenario, perhaps all that remains are fragments of life… and of films. ALMAKINA is born from these ruins: it activates certain images salvaged from Cruz Fixa (2019), a work composed of twelve light boxes that, over time, deteriorated due to the fragility of their material. Yet, the frames endured — visual survivors — and are now transposed onto a new medium. The old light boxes gave way to obsolete televisions, radiating an intermittent light. The images reappear like spectres — channels that confront us in a world saturated by moving images.

Inspired by Vilém Flusser’s reflections, the installation evokes the inversion of the function of the image: what once operated as a map of the world is now transformed into a veil — we no longer use images to understand reality but instead live in function of them. ALMAKINA is a work-in-progress, part of the artist’s process of artistic research. With each presentation, new elements are incorporated, turning the piece into a creation in continuous metamorphosis — one that grows, renews itself, and raises new questions, whether through images or sound.

 

Passos Manuel - Opening hours

15–16 OCT: 10:00 PM – 2:00 AM

17–18 OCT: 11:00 PM – 5:00 AM

 

Luísa Sequeira

Luísa Sequeira is a filmmaker, visual artist, and film curator. With a PhD in Media Arts, her work moves across multiple platforms, exploring the boundaries between the digital and the analog by combining collage, archival material, and expanded cinema within her artistic and research practice. Her most recent work focuses on reconstructing feminist narratives in art and cinema, mapping a constellation of images that challenge phallocentric power structures.

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.