Ana Vaz: O que aconteceu ainda está porvir

Until November 17, Batalha Centro de Cinema presents the exhibition O que aconteceu ainda está porvir, by Ana Vaz.

Ana Vaz’s work activates and questions cinema as an art of the (in)visible and an instrument that transforms human perception. Her film-poems, marked by the experimental challenge of the poetic forms of contemporary film, reflect on the destructive practices of modernity. O que aconteceu ainda está porvir, an exhibition in partnership with Solar—Galeria de Arte Cinemática, brings together film poems from her Meteoro series, which weaves a sci-fi ethnography of different European cities as axes of colonial thought. Past and future, stories and omens intertwine under the prismatic gaze of authors such as Isabel Carvalho, Maïa Tellit Hawad and Olivier Marboeuf. In Batalha, the artist presents the second and new episode of the series, written and filmed in Porto, with the city as its focus.

Programme notes by Raquel Schefer (researcher, a filmmaker, a film curator, and an associated professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University).

Ana Vaz, artist and filmmaker, was born on the central Brazilian plateau inhabited by the ghosts buried by the modernist federal capital Brasília. A Cerratense by origin and a wanderer by choice, Ana has lived in the arid lands of central Brazil and southern Australia, in the swamps of northern France and on the eastern shores of the North Atlantic in Portugal. She currently travels between Paris and Brasilia. Ana’s filmography activates and questions cinema as an art of the (in)visible and as an instrument capable of dehumanizing the human, expanding its connections and becoming with other forms of life—both other-than-human and spectral. Consequences or expansions of her cinematography, the artist’s activities are also incorporated into writing, critical pedagogy, installations or collective walks.