The Creole Lens is an ongoing practice by Janilda Bartolomeu which engages with (post)colonial hauntings, collective memories and diasporic cinema across various contexts – through the means of making, researching and (film) programming . These aforementioned subjects are largely envisioned through a speculative lens, that not only documents but also seek to activate potentialities.

At its core Janilda’s practice is about communing with immaterial entities whether she encounters them in the shape of heritage, (digital) spectres or other. Either way, every single one of her works play on the crossroads between memory and speculation.

Janilda currently working as an anti-disciplinary artist and programmer for art and film institutions.