Ricardo Alves Jr.
Ricardo Alves Jr (b. 1982 in Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter who studied cinema directing in Buenos Aires. In 2016, he released his first feature film, Elon Doesn’t Believe in Death, followed by his first television film, the special O Natal de Rita in 2017. As producer, he released The Dead and the Others (2018) and The Buriti Flower (2023). Ricardo’s films have been screened widely at film festivals including Cannes, Berlinale, Rotterdam, Locarno, Oberhausen, IndieLisboa, Festival de Brasília. He has also exhibited in museums including Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Reina Sofia, Madrid. In 2013, a retrospective dedicated to his short film work was curated at the Cinémathèque Française, Paris.
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In consultation with Abbas and Abou-Rahme, Only the Beloved Keeps Our Secrets, a second work was chosen to accompany At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance. Taking the opportunity given by an online Festival, it was felt that this strategy might better simulate the artists’ performance, installation and exhibition making practice for viewers.
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Artist and filmmaker Kat Anderson presents the world festival premiere of ‘Restraint Restrained’. The programme features two films from Anderson’s first solo exhibition. The works draw on the experiences and narratives of the many mentally ill Black people who have met their deaths in police custody or mental health facilities, through excessive restraint holds and other violent and negligent behaviours. ‘Restraint Restrained’ references the central premise of Frantz Fanon’s essay ‘Concerning Violence’, in which he claims that in order for the decolonisation of indigenous land to happen, a total and violent purging of the colonisers by the indigenous people must occur. Anderson repurposes this idea to consider how the contemporary Black mind and body, as a ‘colonised space’, is processed through public health and police institutions; understanding such authorities as embodiments and enforcers of structural white supremacy.
‘Restraint Restrained’ was commissioned by Block336 and Black Cultural Archives and supported by Arts Council England, Elephant Trust, LUX and Spike Island.
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For this year’s Propositions strand, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is dedicating a focus to the diverse practice of Hong Kong writer, artist and filmmaker Tiffany Sia. Though the centre of this presentation is Never Rest/Unrest, Sia’s directorial debut and an urgent work that functions as creative reportage of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, the full range of work on view includes writing, collage and performance documentation, as well as a livestream discussion with Sia.
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Akingbade’s trilogy of films act as an ode to her cinematic project on social housing, tied together through an interweaving of archive, fiction, 16mm film, digital, activism and dreams.
