Screening in the street 25th August 10:00p.m. - 00:00 - Maria Ornaf, “je suis allée” Screening in Ermida 26th to 30th August - João Cristóvão Leitão, Nuno Lacerda, Joana Linda, Miguel Bonneville, Dinis Carvalho, Fábio Caldeira e Diogo Monteiro, Elsa Bruxelas, Micael Espinha FUSO is nowadays a reference in the Portuguese video art world. Since its first edition FUSO has taken the role of a unique and pioneer initiative, establishing a perfect symbiosis between Lisbon summer nights and its gardens, balconies and terraces, inviting the public to relax in chaise longs and enjoy unique video art artistic experiences. Suggesting a broad thematic path, out of the usual galleries and museums one, this festival is presented mostly outdoors. This year some of the screenings will take place in the cultural project Travessa da Ermida. It is a free entrance Festival. Some of the most prestigious national and international institutions in the field of video art, again, joined FUSO - Anual de Vídeo Arte Internacional de Lisboa, making this initiative a real platform for international meeting and opening borders for national artists, among them are: Colection Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle, VideoZone, International Video Art Biennal, Center for Contemporary Art, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing Studio National des Arts Contemporains, World Wide Video Festival, Electronic Arts Intermix. The Open Call to Portuguese artists, with a selection of Jean-François Chougnet, is a fundamental aspect of this festival. Ensuring the involvement in the project by Portuguese artists / filmmakers, through the award – Work acquisition by Fundação EDP, leading to the dissemination and implementation of the work on the national circuit of video art. - - - Je suis allée //Maria Ornaf (2012) 1’28’’ This is a way of whiteness. This is transition from reality to something what is behind the end. Only innocent can transcend what is impossible to overcome; the wall which rises before us. Born in 1989 in Poland. Studied Intermedia at University of Fines Art in Poznań and Arte Multimedia in Faculdade de Belas-Artes in Lisbon. She works with experimental film and video, mostly in analogue technique. Her films were shown during many international film and video festivals worldwide. Landscape of failure // Miguel Bonneville (2010) 5’ Inevitably connected to a sensation of freedom and to a feeling of despair. Inevitably connected to you. A compulsory nature. An impossibility. There will always be this connection between her, you and me. There will always be a trauma that will connect me with you. Today, thirteen years later. Today I can get close to the sea without having to hold your hand or be taken sitting on your shoulders. I can see a landscape of failures that I recognize reflected upon it and to which I dedicate myself repeatedly. Miguel Bonneville (Porto, 1985) studied Acting at the Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (2000-2003), Visual Arts at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2006), ‘Autobiographies, Life Stories and Artist’s Lives’ at CIES-ISCTE (2008), the ‘Archive – Organization and Maintenance’ at Citeforma and ‘Sewing ideas’ at Magestil (2013). Whether in performances, drawings, photographs, music, artist books, Miguel Bonneville introduces us to autobiographical stories focused on the destruction and re-construction of identity. He presents his work throughout art galleries and international festivals, namely the projects 'Family Project', ‘Miguel Bonneville’ and ‘The importance of being...’. Bonneville has participated in artistic residencies like Sítio das Artes / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2007), Homesession, (2008), Mugatxoan / Serralves Foundation (2010), Transeuropa2012 (2012) an d Arts Printing House (2013). Karunã // Joana Linda (2013) 4’ KARUNÃ (in both Sanskrit and Pali) is generally translated as compassion. It is part of the spiritual path of both Buddhism and Jainism. In “Island” a novel by Aldous Huxley (his last) Minah birds were trained to repeat ‘Karuna’ in order to make humans aware of what is really important. Inspired by the book and its violent ending, this film should be seen as a Minah bird of sorts, reminding people of all the nameless victims and atrocities committed in the name of progress, religion and civilization. Born in Lisbon, in 1980. She works as a photographer, director and graphic designer. Anime It // Dinis Carvalho, Fábio Caldeira e Diogo Monteiro (2010) 2’ We live in the digital era, and dependency on technology increases each day, even in the absence of the being, the electronic expresses itself. Is this interactivity which moves us, attracts us and makes us feel more static simultaneously. Are we the ones dominating technology or is it technology dominating us? Worked produced for the discipline of Animation I of Communication and Multimedia design course. Dinis Carvalho has developed a special taste for programming and multimedia, always looking to deepen his knowledge in diverse areas. In the present he works as Front End Developer at Outsystems and is responsible for the creation of Desktop and Mobile business apps. Fábio Caldeira is a digital native in love with technology and communication with images through the net. After having worked in Media Capital and Impala, he is, at the moment, a freelancer in digital strategy, content management and social media . Diogo Monteiro is a VFX Artist in Irmalucia Visual Effects and holds a Master Degree from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa do Porto in sound and image with specialisation in computer animation. Duas pernas e um sopro // Elsa Bruxelas (2011) 5’ When we run we free ourselves from the tensions and our visual perception is transformed gaining other sensations. The simple fact of us moving by ourselves boosted by our system, in another velocity, gives us the sublime feeling of being over the earth, of stepping on it, of dominating it in a certain way, although under the fatal presence of the limit of our resistance and the fragility of our balance. For instants, we become powerful and suspended in time, resolute in generating that energy, whilst the world with its images passes though us. Those dancing images approaching transform themselves getting away of its resigned existence as background landscape. They are shapes which give themselves to know by themselves providing us another vision. Bachelor and a masters student in Painting from Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Works in painting, printmaking and video, author of several video art and fiction films, with multiple representations and awards in International films Festivals. Recently, took part in public art projects and group exhibitions. Works, still, in scenography projects with the stage director Diogo Dória, like Sou o vento – Jon Fosse, collaboration with the painter João Queiroz (Culturgest Lisbon 2013). Mapa Museu // Nuno Lacerda (2014) 8’08’’ A fictitious architecture suspended in time and space, just like its inhabitants Born in 1983 in Lisbon, where he lives and works. Concluded in 2008 a license degree (pre-Bologna) in Fine Arts - Painting at the College of Fine Arts - University of Lisbon. Aside from his individual work, mostly in video, video-installation and illustration, he is involved in several collective projects in music and theater. Cinza // Micael Espinha (2014) 10’ "CINZA" is a short film made entirely with photographs from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library Archive. A visual and soundscaped short ambience voyage through an utopian, ghost-like city-state. In this mid twentieth century imaginary Lisbon, the power plants continue to produce energy, brand new Subway Network locomotives’ engines hum in standby, city lights and neon signs come alive each night and radio receivers spread Salazar’s [Portuguese Dictator] speeches - yet, nowhere is to be found the slightest human presence: there isn’t anyone to see and hear this newcomer modernity’s heartbeat. Only statues and facades inhabit the metropolis. Micael completed his graduate studies in the Portuguese School of Theater and Cinema (Lisbon) Directed the music television documentary series "KM0" for bustrope // RTP2 // 2007/2008; Co-Directed the cultural television magazine "Câmara Clara" for bustrope // RTP2 // 2008/2009; Produced, directed and animated the 2D animation short "Black Bug" // 2011. Works as a freelance editor in advertising, tv, documentary, music videos and short films, since 2000. Is currently Partner / Director / Editor at RoughCut. O retrato de Irineu // João Cristovão Leitão (2014) 4’09’’ Iraneus: unable to forget and endowed with an infallible memory. Has a BA in Theatre (Dramaturgy), by Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (2012) and attends the 2nd year of a Master Degree in Multimedia Art (Audiovisual Studies), at Faculdade de Belas Artes – Universidade de Lisboa. Is a grantee of a Dance research project (Faculdade de Motricidade Humana – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; 2010-2011); does an internship at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, in the Staging Department (2012); and is a volunteer at Doclisboa’13 (2013). As a creator, is part of the performative colectivo 3.14 (2010-2012); is assistant director and assistant editor of the filmic project ‘José Ninguém’, by Rodrigo Pereira (winner of the ‘Jovens Criadores 2012’ competition, on the video section). Presently, integrates, as a video artist and as co-creator, the artistic collective SillySeason, having worked with other artistic platforms (Orlando Furisoso and Rabbit Hole).
