Rita Morais
Rita Morais (Portugal) is an artist filmmaker and programmer, with a particular interest in the fields of experimental cinema, artists film and moving image and its relationship with issues raised by ecology. Graduating with a Masters in Artistsâ Film & Moving Image from Goldsmiths, she is the founder and artistic director of âMiragem â kinematic arts in the landscapeâ in Pico Island, Azores, as well as a programmer in the experimental section of Curtas Villa do Conde IFF. She is a member of LaboratĂłrio da Torre, an experimental film lab in Porto.
Personal, geological and collective histories are reencountered through this series of films. A reckoning is at the core of Myrid Cartenâs candid portrait of familial ties in Sorrow had a baby. While the caverns of a corpse mountain become the place and wonder for a curious eye in Rita Moraisâ 16mm film HĂĄ ouro em todo o lado, where a childâs play and voice relay sage observations of its past transformation. Afro-Diasporic underground disco, house and ballroom culture is source and inspiration for the blissful and rapturous worldmaking within India Sky Davisâ The Lifecycle of Rainbows.
Descendants is presented in collaboration with the MA Artistsâ Film & Moving Image at Goldsmiths University of London, selected by artist filmmaker and programme director Gail Pickering.
