Stenar Projects

26/06/2024

Screenings of 'È A QUESTO PUNTO CHE NASCE IL BISOGNO DI FARE STORIA' by Constanze Ruhm, at FIDMarseille 26/06 16:30; 27/06 9:30; 30/06 14:30 💕 https://fidmarseille.org/en/film/e-a-questo-punto-che-nasce-il-bisogno-di-fare-storia/ Come and say hi!

24/06/2024

"I feel like a pupil in the changing of light. I widen and narrow incessantly. I know no rigidness, no indifference,” writes the Italian feminist writer and art critic Carla Lonzi in 1978. Please join us this Wednesday at FIDMarseille for the world premiere of Constanze Ruhm's new feature film "È a questo punto che nasce il bisogno di fare storia", for cinema of dark shards that hold light, of no indifference in the face of violence and oppression, and of renewed approaches to feminist historiography. Constanze Ruhm writes in 2023: "The tear that Lonzi sheds in her lost film turns into an optical device that sharpens her eye. A woman’s gaze on history rendered more acute by a tear now lets the images of that history, images defined by the absence of women, come to the fore in liberating yet also dismaying clarity. Later on, she averts her eye from it (“one must leave men to their own devices”) and turns her attention to another history, other images: “È a questo punto che nasce il bisogno di fare storia.” It is at this point that the desire to write history arises, a history of women, to find the images for it in the archives, the historical documents, and the present and, if need be, to invent them." Co-production of Bathazara Films and Stenar Projects.
Come watch and say hi!

15/05/2024

Please join us this Friday at 17h for the Slovenian premiere of "Resonance Spiral" at Slovenska kinoteka, as part of the programme of V-F-X Ljubljana, and check out the festival's compelling line-up this year. This will be the fourth national premiere of the documentary, after Berlinale Forum / Forum Expanded, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art's Doc Fortnight and the international competition of Cinéma du réel - Festival international du film documentaire. Come say hi, there will be a Q&A with both directors present, and a hang-out at the bar afterward!

31/03/2024

Lovely news from Paris!

[PRIX DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES 2024 l LIBRARY AWARD 2024]

RESONANCE SPIRAL de / by Filipa César & Marinho de Pina

Doté par la Direction générale des médias et des industries culturelles du ministère de la Culture (2 500 €) et décerné à un film international de plus de 50 minutes issu de la compétition. Il s’accompagne d’une proposition d’achat de droits par la Bpi - Bibliothèque publique d'information, permettant au film d’intégrer le Catalogue national – Les Yeux Doc.

30/03/2024

https://www.cinemadureel.org/en/films/resonance-spiral-2/
Today! Friends in Paris, join Filipa César and Marinho de Pina today for a second screening and a Q&A at , after the French premiere of Resonance Spiral this last Thursday.

The Mediateca Onshore in Malafo, a village in Guinea-Bissau, is an archive and a club for agropoetic practices. As Amílcar Cabral talks feminism on tape, the directors speak in the mangroves about the contradictions of depicting the community. Observing and listening, filmmaker and artist Filipa C....

27/02/2024

https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/9403

Friends in New York, please join Filipa César & Marinho de Pina at for Resonance Spiral, an assemblage of moments through imagining, essaying, discussing, troubling, building, and inhabiting the Mediateca in Malafo. MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

tue, 27.02.2024 - 19:00 with Q&A
fri, 01.03.2024 - 16:30

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2 -The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

Resonance Spiral. 2024. Portugal/Guinea-Bissau/Germany. Directed by Filipa César, Marinho de Pina. North American premiere. In Guinea-Bissau Creole, Cape Verdean Creole, French, Portuguese; English subtitles. 92 min. In September 2022, Mediateca Onshore was inaugurated in Malafo, a village in Guine...

07/02/2024

O filme “Ressonância em espiral”, de Filipa César e Marinho de Pina, vai ser exibido este mês no Doc Fortnight, festival de cinema organizado pelo museu norte-americano MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, numa sessão que inclui uma conversa com os realizadores Filipa César e Marinho de Pina. Antes da exibição em Nova Iorque, integra a secção Forum do Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival.
Em março, esta coprodução entre Portugal (Stenar Projects), Guiné-Bissau e Alemanha, passada na aldeia guineense de Malafo integra a competição oficial, do Cinéma du réel - Festival international du film documentaire, que decorrerá em Paris.

17/01/2024

Very happy to share today's announcement that the world premiere of the feature documentary "Resonance Spiral" by Filipa César, Marinho de Pina et al will be at Berlinale Forum / Forum Expanded this February. “During the selection process”, comments Forum’s new section head Barbara Wurm, “it was fascinating to see how many films attempted to approach the big themes of the present (...) by simultaneously focusing on edification and enlightenment, reflection and empathy. (...) Current films examining post-colonialism are placing a focus on humanity instead of destruction and relationships instead of solitude.” More news to follow soon. Stenar Projects ICA - O Nosso Ecrã Haus der Kulturen der Welt Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.

14/12/2023

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13/08/2023

Thank you Dokufest and Green Dox jury! Deborah Stratman Elinka Films @[100066717296223:2048:http://xn--tnk-jma.fr/] Centre national des arts plastiques - Cnap CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée

12/06/2023

Emily Wardill’s new work Identical at curated by the brilliant Mason Leaver Yap for 2023 KW Production Series; produced by Stenar Projects and commissioned and co-produced by KW Institute of Contemporary Art, in partnership with . Special thanks to all the cast&crew who charged it with life over these past years and to the glorious KW team who sustained it, and to Emily for the shared path.

12/06/2023

Celebrating the 60th year of this past week with Archival Assembly 2: and present a film performance Mediateca: A Resonance Spiral. Part of a ongoing&constalational “Luta ca caba inda”, and a whiff of things to come with its film format Mediateca Onshore. What does one look for?

15/05/2023

After 4 days, leaving excited and with the fullest of hearts. V-F-X Ljubljana in its 3rd edition at Slovenska kinoteka has articulated a program that not only reflects on experimental cinema practices past and present but offers glimpses of things to come. Deborah Stratman’s “Last Things” couldn’t have had a more perfect crowd, screen and sound system(!) for its Slovenian premiere (another local date in June coming soon so stay tuned and maybe pack the swimsuit).

Sincere thanks to all the glorious team members for the hard work and exceptional hospitality.

You’ll never walk alone! (even during Eurovision:).

📸: Asiana Jurca Avci for V-F-X

15/05/2023

After 4 days, leaving excited and with the fullest of hearts. V-F-X Ljubljana in its 3rd edition at Slovenska kinoteka has articulated a program that not only reflects on experimental cinema practices past and present but offers glimpses of things to come. Deborah Stratman’s “Last Things” couldn’t have had a more perfect crowd, screen and sound system(!) for its Slovenian premiere (another local date in June coming soon so stay tuned and maybe pack the swimsuit).

Sincere thanks to all the glorious team for the hard work and exceptional hospitality.

You’ll never walk alone! (even during Eurovision:)

05/04/2023

We’re delighted with best short film award for Deborah Stratman’s Last things, our co-production at this last weekend. Thanks to the jury and their to-the-point words: “Brevity is virtue and one seldom exercised at that. The wealth of academic, scientific and literary references that make up this film would be enough to fuel several films at once, but this one darts between them and makes them flow together with gentle, unostentatious confidence in its own magpie logic. Affect and sensuality can also be directed via the mind and echo all the louder when treated as such.” And special thanks to all the partners who made this intercontinental featurette possible and a joy to produce. .fr

27/03/2023

Last chance to catch Deborah Stratman’s Last things at , today 14.30 at Pompidou. Please join us for this geopoetry séance and say hi! film, .fr

24/03/2023

Tmrrw in Paris hot! Please join us for the French premiere of Deborah Stratman’s Last Things in competition program of Cinéma du réel - Festival international du film documentaire, and for the second screening on Monday. More info and tix at: https://www.cinemadureel.org/en/films/last-things-2/ films Elinka Films CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée Tenk Stenar Projects Centre national des arts plastiques - Cnap

Evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks and various future others. The geo-biosphere is introduced as a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures. The film is spoken mainly in French. At the request of the director, the screening on Saturday March 25...

27/02/2023

A frame of Deborah Stratman's "Last Things" became the poster of this year's . The film also became a party, after it sold out two cinema sessions. Thanks to all the partners and bis bald, Berlin and future becomings! Elinka Films Tenk Centre national des arts plastiques - Cnap CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée

19/01/2023

https://leblogdetenk.fr/last-things-de-deborah-stratman/

"I am most known as a filmmaker because I’ve been making films longer than everything else, and because filmmaking can combine so many different interests that I have. I really love the sculpture of time. So working with pressure and volume, through temporality. I really feel sometimes more like a sculptor than a filmmaker. A sculptor who happens to work with time."

The first published interview with Deborah Stratman about her new film, Last Things, by the lovely people at Tenk who have supported the film and provided post studios for it. Also, our festival excitement starts this January at Sundance Film Festival with the American premiere of the film - for info on how to attend in person or online Jan 19-29 visit festival.Sundance.org. Elinka Films Stenar Projects Film

22/12/2022

Stenar Projects is looking for a part-time studio assistant, from now until end of may 2023, to work with one of our artists. In Lisbon, starting with 1 day per week. Previous comparable experience is valued but not obligatory. Please apply with a CV to [email protected]; and feel free to share.

21/12/2022

We're delighted to share that "Last Things", the new film by Deborah Stratman, has its world premiere at Berlinale Forum / Forum Expanded. Co-produced by Pythagoras Films (US), Elinka Films (FR) and Stenar Projects (PT), it is Stratman's first longer form after her revered feature "The Illinois Parables", in 2017. The co-production had its initial spurs between 2018's Doc's Kingdom in Arcos de Valdavez and 2020's On & For Production and Distribution session in Lofoten Islands, and has crossed territories beyond them in the two years ahead. This is the 10th Portuguese co-production at Forum Expanded since 2014, and the 4th by Stenar Projects at that section of Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival - after Emily Wardill's "Night For Day", and Ana Vaz's "Apiyemiyekî?" and "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird". Please join us in Berlin in February and say hi!

Berlin International Film Festival - official website

07/03/2022

World premiere of "Mangrove School" by Filipa César and Sonia Vaz Borges Cinéma du réel - Festival international du film documentaire ~~~~~

Screenings - Saturday 12 March at 6:30 PM Pompidou Center - Cinema 1 + Q&A

Wednesday 16 March at 6:10 PM MK2 Beaubourg

Thursday 17 March at 6 PM
Bulac (Library of Languages and Civilizations) / 65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris

Mangrove School
(34 min, guinea creole, coul, 2022)
A film by: Filipa César and Sonia Vaz Borges
based on a research by Sonia Vaz Borges
Producers: Filipa Cesar, Olivier Marboeuf, Anze Persin
images : Jenny Lou Ziegel
art counselor: Sana na N’Hada
Executive Producer: Suleimane Biai
editing, graphics and images 16mm: Filipa Cesar
sound & drone operator: Marinho de Pina
sound design / mixage : João Polido Gomes
Coloring: Matilda Mester, Bruno Derksen, Pedro Maia
A production by / A production of:
Spectre Productions, elsehere, Stenar Projects, Geba Filmes, Mediateca Onshore
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commissioned by
House of cultures of the world
School of Arts, Catholic University of Porto
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with the support of
Harun Farocki Institut, House of Culture of the World, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundació ”la Caixa” General Directorate of the Arts, School of the Arts – UCP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), Department of the Seine-Saint-Deni

17/02/2022

Bassness by Emily Wardill ” ...we had made the very first release from Underground Resistance which was a vocal track called “Your time is up”.

I took it home to my mother because i wanted her to see why we were staying up so late at night and she listened to it and she said:

“It’s nice… but it needs more bass.”

Derrick May

Beginning from the future and looking back to 2007, Emily Wardill's new show at listens with its body to the bass notes and lets them vibrate up her trouser leg
- and you also get a boney glimpse of what is in store for Wardilll and Stenar during the next 4 years. Until 29th of April.

11/02/2022

”...we had made the very first release from Underground Resistance which was a vocal track called “Your time is up”.

I took it home to my mother because i wanted her to see why we were staying up so late at night and she listened to it and she said:

“It’s nice… but it needs more bass.”

Derrick May

Beginning from the future and looking back to 2007, Emily Wardill's new show at Rialto6 listens with its body to the bass notes and lets them vibrate up her trouser leg
- and you also get a boney glimpse of what is in store for Wardilll and Stenar during the next 4 years. Until 29th of April.

OPENS TODAY - 9:30 p.m.
Bassness by Emily Wardill

23/09/2021

CAMPO DE TREINO: O QUE FAZER JUNTO?
18-22 Outubro
>> Inscrições abertas até 30 de Setembro (12 vagas apenas)

A SOS Racismo aliou-se a um grupo de activistas, pessoas da produção cultural e artistas para propor um projecto colaborativo e horizontal de auto-formação anti-colonial, antirracista e contra todos os tipos de discriminação e opressão de pessoas LGBTQIA+, com diversidade funcional e outras vítimas da violência heteropatriarcal branca.
Pretende-se aqui reflectir sobre o papel que cúmplices e aliades branques/cis/hetero (etc.) podem ter no combate à discriminação e à violência. Este encontro interseccional inspira-se em modelos de “campos de treino” políticos, do passado e do presente, como espaços de auto-formação militante e de reflexão colectiva.

Este encontro intensivo reunirá cerca de 12 participantes, acompanhades por um grupo diverso de intervenientes, durante cinco dias inteiros (10h-18h). Serão analisados coletivamente estudos de caso em torno de situações de violência, com o objetivo de imaginar possíveis estratégias para contornar ou combater essa mesma violência. Através da leitura, escuta, performance, exercícios, métodos de reparação, auto-investigação e análise militante colectiva... vamos procurar respostas a perguntas difíceis, não só para as comunidades afectadas pela violência e discriminação, mas para a sociedade no geral:
>> Qual o papel de cada ume na luta activa contra todas as formas de opressão? Como reconhecer os nossos pontos-cegos e como combater a ignorância perante as formas sistémicas de reprodução da violência? Como estabelecer e inventar relações de aliança, solidariedade e cumplicidade que propiciem a transformação efectiva das situações sociais em que estamos implicades? Como fazer do cuidado um método central na luta política e nos movimentos de resistência?

A equipa do projecto reúne a associação SOS Racismo e Mamadou Ba, a Casa T, Filipa César, Jota Mombaça, Gisela Casimiro, José Lino Neves e Iris de Brito (Batoto Yetu), Rodrigo Ribeiro Saturnino e a plataforma de produção de cinema Stenar Projects (com especial enfoque em temáticas q***r e decoloniais).

NOTA: Os encontros terão lugar num espaço seguro, nos vários sentidos do termo, isto é, um espaço que assegure o devido distanciamento e circulação do ar, disponibilização de máscaras e gel desinfectante; mas também um espaço com privacidade, onde poderemos exprimir livremente e de maneira responsável diferentes subjectividades.

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08/09/2021

What a joy to present two of our most recent productions in Open City Documentary Festival, under the new direction of María Palacios Cruz, in London and online:
13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD (2020) and APIYEMIYEKÎ? (2019) as part of the screening program "Recent Works by Ana Vaz", Sun 12 Sep, 15:20 — Genesis Cinema.
https://opencitylondon.com/events/recent-works-by-ana-vaz/

Spectre productions Centre national des arts plastiques - Cnap Berlinale Forum Expanded European Media Art Festival (EMAF)

The films of Brazilian artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz propose a critical reflection on the relationship between colonialism, modernity and the impending ecological disaster. Hers is haptic cinema that destabilises and questions the hierarchical gaze of ethnographic cinema, highlighting the instability...

07/09/2021

Wonderfully bright review of the film NIGHT FOR DAY by Emily Wardill in the latest Artforum:
"Part documentary, part speculative fiction, Night for Day builds on interviews with [Isabel do] Carmo. She details her life underground and the often overlooked role women played in the antifascist resistance, which intensified as the regime began to flail during the years of the colonial wars (1961 to 1974). She speaks of arrests and torture, and of how the women would, even under fake identities, develop real friendships. But Wardill knows there is no such thing as a true story—all stories are fictive, whatever their subject matter. The artist fictionalizes the transition from fascism to liberal democracy as a generational shift, narrated in a text overlay as a mother-son relationship. (...)"
Read it all here: https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202107/emily-wardill-86383
SPOILER: it also mentions "I gave my love a cherry that had no stone", another film by Emily Wardill produced by Stenar Projects in 2016 and shot in Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

co-produced with Vienna Secession. international premiere in Berlinale Forum Expanded 2021. main prize in European Media Art Festival (EMAF) 2021.

Whether a story has a happy ending, Orson Welles famously noted, depends on where you stop telling it. Isabel do Carmo, the Portuguese antifascist activist whose voice structures the narrative of Emily Wardill’s Night for Day, 2020, spent four years in jail, not during the years of the authoritari...

03/09/2021

Apiyemiyekî? (Ana Vaz, 2019) is still traveling and still exposing a silenced episode from recent history, one that awfully resonates with our present. Solidarity with all indigenous peoples fighting for their rights around the world!
— Recent and future screenings:
01.07-14.07: Frontera-Sur, Festival Internacional de Cine de No Ficción (CH)
03.08-12.08: Présence autochtone / First Peoples Festival, Montréal (CA)
28.08-29.08: InLaguna Film Festival, Venice (IT) http://inlff.info/
27.08-12.09: AricaDoc — Festival Internacional de Cine Documental, Foco Ana Vaz (online in Chile, Peru, Bolivia)
8.09-14.09: Open City Documentary Festival, Recent Works by Ana Vaz, London (UK)
26.09: Latinamerika i Fokus presents "FILM STORIES from Brazil", three short documentary films from Brazil in connection with the exhibition "Leonilson – Drawn: 1975–1993", Malmö Konsthall (SE)
5.10-13.10: 12th CineMigrante International Film Festival, Argentina
7.10-11.10: 9ème Panorama du cinéma colombien, « Luttes latino-américaines », Reflet Médicis, Paris (FR) https://www.panoramaducinemacolombien.com/
And more to come...
Thanks to all!

Spectre productions, Olivier Marboeuf, Anže Peršin, Centre national des arts plastiques - Cnap, Chrysalis fellowship - Media City Film Festival, Sesc Belenzinho.

27/08/2021

É uma enorme alegria estrear em Portugal o filme 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD no IndieLisboa International Film Festival
Realizado por Ana Vaz, em co-elaboração com Vera Amaral e Mário Neto, ao longo de um ano lectivo repleto de perguntas, exercícios e experiências partilhadas, na Escola D. Dinis em Chelas, imaginando o devir de um outro cinema.
>> Próxima sessão: 4ª feira, dia 1, 21h45 no Cinema São Jorge.

Agradecemos às Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, por tornarem o filme possível no âmbito do programa (des)educativo DESCOLA, e a toda a equipa pelo empenho neste projecto tão especial, incluindo: Paula Nascimento, Nuno da Luz, Deborah Viegas, Branko Neskov, João Nunes, Tobi Maier, Anže Peršin, Catarina Boieiro, EGEAC Cultura em Lisboa, Agrupamento Escolas D. Dinis. Uma produção Stenar Projects.

21/07/2021

We're thrilled for having the national premiere of NIGHT FOR DAY by Emily Wardill in International Competition of Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival. ✨

After the world premiere Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival and the Main Prize at European Media Art Festival (EMAF), the film was finally exhibited in Portugal — where it was shot, and produced by Stenar Projects — accompanied by director Emily Wardill, producer Anže Peršin and protagonist Isabel do Carmo herself.

Thank you to the wonderful team of Curtas! 🙌
See you around?