Andromeda summons the critical thinking, artistic and cinematic expression inscribed in the palinsesto of Italian television in the 1960s and 1970s. It is the first age of the public television project, utopian and enlightened, the same years in which cinema profoundly questions its relationship with reality and in which the experimental response of video art emerges. Short-circuiting subjective memory and collective memory, as well as the condition of the proto- and post-spectator, the film documents and revitalises the complexity of ideas and the arts at a singular moment in the history of the image.

biografia

Italian filmmaker and artist, she has been working in Lisbon since 1991. Investigating the hypotheses of Cinema in the field of Arts, she has developed work for cinemas, stages, museums and galleries. After training in Romance Literature, she began a long collaboration with the Cinemateca Portuguesa as a programmer. In 1993 she created the first Super 8 installation for the stage, "Branco Sujo", choreographed by João Fiadeiro. She made her directorial debut in 1998, joining the generation of directors who gave new life to documentary film in Portugal. Between 2002 and 2003, with the installation CCM at the Gulbenkian Foundation and the triptych CHANTportraits at the Museu do Chiado, focusing on the themes of migration and portraiture, she began her journey in exhibition spaces. The extensive body of work, films, film installations and site-specific, has been presented internationally in film festivals and exhibitions, being represented in the Modern Collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, the Nouveaux Medias Collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou and the State Collection of Contemporary Art. Among the most recent works "In Medias Res" (2014), Best Portuguese Film Award Arquiteturas Film Festival, Honourable Mention Temps d'Images Film on Art Award; "Terceiro Andar" 2016, exhibition Gulbenkian Museum, Doclisboa, 34th Torino Film Festival; "Questo è il piano" 2020, Doclisboa and MNAC; project "Andrómeda", exhibition Carpintarias de São Lázaro/Festival Temps d'Images 2021.Guest lecturer at Ar.co, History(s) of Cinema. Researcher in Moving Image Arts, collaborator of the Centre for Research and Studies in Fine Arts (CIEBA), University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine Arts.

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