Movies: Catarina Vasconcelos

Filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifts through the memories of her ancestors. Her naval officer grandfather, Henrique, who married her grandmother, Beatriz, on her 21st birthday, spent extended periods at sea, leaving her with six children. This is the...

Alternating Super-8, digital footage and the correspondence with her brother, the filmmaker evokes their deceased mother and the Portuguese revolution, which she only gets to know through these diffracted memories....

Portugal. 15th century. Monks build a wall around a forest to bar the entry of women. But in the world of the unseen, lit by their souls, women have made their kingdom of invisibility without walls....

How to be bring a city to another? How do you make a map of your favourite place? And how about the sea? To whom does the sea belong? It's in a series of experimentations with acetates and a overhead projector that I tried to create my world, a world...

Walking in Hyde Park, 'enframing' the park. Hiding Hyde Park in London....