SARA CASTELO BRANCO



UNDER MAINTENANCE


BLINDING LIGHT

Cripta 747, Turin 2021

Curator of the artist’ films and experimental cinema screening Blinding Light, Cripta 747 / Cinema Fratelli Marx (Turin, Italy), 2021

Films by: Semiconductor, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Jérôme Cognet, Alex Mackenzie.


Based on a heterogeneous perspective on the sun, this screening brings together a series of works that approach the meta-historical and poetic dimension of solar cosmology, proposing to capture the variable expressiveness of the sun, especially its relationship with science, technology, shamanism and cultural representations. ​​​



TO FILM WITH ONE HAND MY OTHER HAND

Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon 2021​

Curator of the artist’ films and experimental cinema screenings To Film With One Hand My Other Hand, ZDB – Galeria Zé dos Bois (Lisbon, Portugal), 2021

Films by: Ismaïl Bahri, Harun Farocki, Chick Strand, Marguerite Duras, Maria Lassnig, Melisa Liebenthal, Filipa César, Yvonne Rainer, Gary Beydler, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Onyeka Igwe, Miklos Bandy & Stella Simon, Manoel de Oliveira.


Crossing different geographies and temporalities, this screening presents a selection of artist’s and experimental films that explore the role of hand as a mechanism of action, revelation, erasure or performativity.​



UNDER THE GROUND

Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Lisbon 2020​

Co-Curator of the artist’ films and experimental cinema screenings Under the Ground, at Galeria da Boavista – Galerias Municipais de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal), 2020

Films by: Basim Magdy, Rosa Barba, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Gary Beydler, Karrabing Film Collective, Lisa Rave, Louis Henderson, Nicholas Mangan, Sandra Lahire, Toshio Matsumoto, Ursula Biemann, Yto Barrada.


Under the Ground presents a set of works of different temporalities, images and geographies, ranging from Ghana, the Pacific Islands, Greece, Japan, Antarctica, North America to the Sahara Desert. Divided into three sessions, these works seek to raise central questions in order to promote a broader understanding of the deep temporality of the earth and of its critical relationship with the contemporary economy and technology.



OUT OFF NATURE

Arsenal – Institut fur Film and Videokunst, Berlin 2019​

Co-curator of the artist’ films and experimental cinema screenings Out Off Nature, at Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst (Berlin, Germany), 2019​

Films by: Ali Cherri, Louis Henderson, Pedro Neves Marques, Ben Thorp Brown, David Kelley e Patty Chang, Mariana Silva. ​


Considering certain critical relationships between media technology and nature, this screening considers the historicities and materialities involved in the axes that define our contemporary technological culture, and their relationship with mineral exploration, neo-colonial societies and environmental failures.