Porto Design Biennale
19.10 03.12.23 Porto + Matosinhos

Dive-in

Film Cycle October 27 November 30, 2023

local Passos Manuel, Porto

curador Joana Rafael, Patrícia Sequeira Brás

Satellites

Dive-in is a programme composed of films, talks, video installation and a book, seeking to explore the interactions between design, water and the social. The cycle of movies will be accompanied by talks and an installation in the former projection room of Passos Manuel. The cycle closes with the launch of a book featuring critical texts from the field of design.

PROGRAMME

27.10.2023 - 10 pm
Programme presentation by Joana Rafael e Patrícia Sequeira Brás.
Film Session: Sueños de Hielo (1993), Ignacio Agüero (58`) 

Installation: (loop) 00:00 — 04:00
Cabin 1: The World Part I: Mirage (2019), Michela de Mattei (04’ 35’’)
Cabin 2: Tomorrow is a Water Palace (2022), Juanita Onzaga (15’)
Cabin 3: Horizon (Five Pound a Belgian) (2012), John Smith (18’)

01.11.2023 -  10 pm
Film Session: Pumzi (2009), Wanuri Kahiu (22’)
Film Session: Shower (1999), Zhang Yang (92’) (TBC)

03.11.2023 -  10 pm
Film Session:
Kareem´s Pool (2012), Ahmad Bargouthi (17’)
Film Session:
A minha Aldeia Já Não Mora Aqui (2005), Catarina Mourão (60’)

16.11.2023 -  10 pm
Film Session:
Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams (2016) Karrabing Film Collective (29’)
Film Session: Aral. Fishing in an Invisible Sea (2004) Carlos Casas (52’)

30.11.2023 -  10 pm
Film Session:
The Forgotten Space (2010) Allan Sekula

Programa / Programme

Joana Rafael is an architect and researcher who develops interdisciplinary work on the relationship between architecture, ecology, urban and digital culture, social and natural sciences and energy technologies.

Patrícia Sequeira Brás is visiting assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Coimbra. Her research interests include the relationship between politics and cinema, feminism and gender studies, film temporality and visual coloniality.

For this project, Brás and Rafael team up with Nuno Maio (designer).