AFVS faculty Joana Pimenta featured in Spanish Cineteca

In collaboration with the INSTAR Film Festival , we present the first Spanish retrospective of Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta, an essential duo on the contemporary cinematic scene. For more than two decades, Queirós and Pimenta have created from the margins—geographical, social, and aesthetic—to rewrite the myths of the present. A cinema made with and from the community, where formal invention is not an aesthetic whim, but a political necessity. False memories, apocryphal archives, pirate radio stations, election jingles, women in charge of clandestine refineries: their films summon bodies expelled from official history to imagine other forms of existence. Their languages ​​overlap: sound precedes image, science fiction merges with chronicle, dystopia is transformed into a gesture of the future. Films like " Branco sai, preto fica," "Era uma vez Brasília," and " Mato seco em chamas" (Dry Matus in Flames) condense a singular and collective vision: cinema as a living counter-history, as a contested territory. Filmed in Ceilândia or Sol Nascente, conceived as artifacts of resistance and desire, his works compose a cartography of the impossible where invention is inseparable from rootedness and struggle. Read more.