Movies: Joana Linda

An essay about disaffection in 7 segments inspired by Stendhal's seven stages of love, "De L'Amour" (1822). Most people are afraid of love because they are afraid of their deepest joy, delight and inner freedom....

An introduction to cinema made by Portuguese-speaking women, narrated by a fictionalized Bárbara Virgínia, the first Portuguese woman director....

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Inspired by the mythology of "Boco do Inferno" and the magical practices of Crowley and his followers in "Boudoir", a closed woman in your room performs a ritual, like all rituals, will have its consequences....

Shot with an iPhone, Layla meets Lancelot is a record of the director’s daily journey to and from work. Does happiness lie in accepting repetition or in interrupting it? Everything long awaited always takes place unexpectedly....

Inhabited by bodies that question love and death to the limits of madness, that are heard but not seen, and vice versa, Camera Obscura reveals a particular form of appropriation of the work of French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras. From the in...