I accompanied filmmaker Salomé Lamas throughout her film projection and exhibition preparations at Serralves Foundation, one of the main contemporary art institutions in Portugal. I shall draw here about the intense work- on and off screen-required in having these movies shown.

Partners: Salomé Lamas- filmmaker and researcher; Ricardo Nicolau- curator at Serralves Foundation; Paula Fernandes- curator at Serralves Foundation

1. Film Projection on the 14th of March, 2015

 

A way of making acquaintance:

 

A problem with the sound:

 

 

 

Solved:

 

 

First movie’s intro (A Torre), played three times in a row (every time a new detailed appeared):

 

Elias (from Le Boudin) simplified to the stripes of his track suit:

 

After falling at the bottom of a cliff (from Encounters with landscape (x3))

 

 

From A comunidade:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Terra de Ninguém:

 

 

 

Movie interview with Salomé Lamas:

 

 

Short artist talk (moderator):

 

2. Exhibition preparations 15th-16th March

Disassembling the previous exhibition/assembling the new one:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A prevalent way of keeping a tape roll close:

 

The main device starts to work:

 

 

 

A most used word:

 

 

 

 

 

A last glimpse at the intro of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: