WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 - 7:30 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Join us for this very special one-night only screening of four short films by the French-Brazilian artist and filmmaker João Vieira Torres. The program will be followed by an in-person Q&A with the filmmaker moderated by guest curator Alia Ayman.

HERE, THERE AND LISBON
2012. 18 mins.

An experimental documentary and a visual poem on the meeting of a city which we do not see but which is present through the sounds and the thermal cartography body imprints of one of its inhabitants.

TORE
2015. 15 mins.

There is that
which I see
which is shown to me
which I can't see
which I don't see

I was invited to film a ritual. That which can be shown to foreigners. A child of the tribe watches Disney's FANTASIA on TV. He is interrupted. What does the child live when he dances? What am I able to see from what is shown to me?

*Shot in the Xucuru-Kariri, in Alagoas, Brazil

GHOST CHILDREN
2017. 16 mins.

Whose faces are in those pictures? Everyone here remembers the first day of their life. A birth of memories and ghosts linking the lives of the living and the undead. How can I remember what my eyes and ears could seize? If all is an ongoing construction, why couldn’t your memories be closer to mine than my own?

SEASICK
2021. 15 mins.

SEASICK is a gasp of air, a shout sung in waves moving through a body nauseated by the confrontation with the violence of the ever-swirling world. This improvised singing tries to break the invisible glass that separates the gaze and the realities of those who can observe from afar and those who are observed, but who are mostly prevented from returning such gaze. Who/what’s missing in the room?

The film was shot during the 2019 Venice Biennale and built around a performative intervention carried out by Torres himself in the exhibition space.

JOAO VIEIRA TORRES is a French-Brazilian artist/filmmaker. He works between France and Brazil. MA in photography/video art, Postgraduate degree at Le Fresnoy (France). PhD in research on the use of documents in contemporary art, at École Sup. Européenne de l'Image. His artistic practice includes: photography, cinema, video art, writing, and performance. One of the main axes of his work is the issue of otherness and the need for building an anchorage, whether territorial, historical, corporeal, or identity. His work has been presented in many festivals, galleries and museums including MoMA , The Flaherty Seminar (US), Centre Pompidou (FR), New York Film Festival, Olhar de Cinema (BR), Int. Film Fest. Rotterdam (NL), Palais de Tokyo (FR), Villa Arson (FR), FIDMarseille (FR), DocLisboa (PT), MIS São Paulo (BR), Rencontres Int. du Documentaire de Montréal (CA), Anthology Film Archives (US), LABoral (SP), CPH:Dox (DK), IndieLisboa and many others.