November 2023 – CURRENT
Film Selection Committee & Moderator – Go Short Film Festival.
April 2023 – CURRENT
Junior Film Programmer – European Shorts – Sarajevo Film Festival.
December 2023 – May 2024
Researcher/ Artist Filmmaker – Archipelagoes of Bond in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut & RAW Material Company.
January 2024
Collaborator/ Moderator & Video Essayist – 10th Critics’ Choice @ International Film Festival Rotterdam. Read my introduction to this year’s theme: Whisper Between The Idea & The Reality (2024)
Video essay: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire – A Multitude of Camouflages
Moderator, Filmmaker – RTM Day @ International Film Festival Rotterdam
Moderated the RTM Talk: Being Both
Screened evocations & lamentations (2016)
November 2023 – April 2024
Film Selection Committee & Moderator – Go Short 2024.
March 2023 – September 2023
Artist Filmmaker – _when_scrolling_becomes_scrying (2023) for the ‘REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art’ exhibition with Het Nieuwe Instituut x LIMA (7 October 2023 – 12 May 2024).
October 2022 – August 2023
Film Programmer (& Moderator) – Programmers of The Future traineeship at EYE Filmmuseum – Black Atlantic Visions.
eyefilm.nl – Programmers of the Future 2023
EYE Film Player – ‘Black Atlantic Visions’ Online Film Programme
August 2020 – August 2022
Researcher – Research & Development @ Het Nieuwe Instituut
The Eleventh Island – start of the ongoing research project, under The Knowledge Academy of Rosi Braidotti (August 2021 – August 2022).
The Eleventh Island: Activating Silent Histories Through Video (essay by Janilda Bartolomeu)
Colonial Spectres (August 2020 – April 2022)
4 July 2021 – 29 May 2022
Artist Filmmaker – Haunted (2021) film installation for the ‘Temporary House of Home’ exhibition @ Het Nieuwe Instituut.
January 2020 – August 2020
Filmmaker – If The Walls Could Speak (2020) in collaboration with YouthDem and Het Nieuwe Instituut for ‘G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children’ exhibition by The Ummah Chroma.
September 2018 – June 2020
(MA) Comparative Arts & Media Studies – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Thesis – The Past Present: Spectrality as a Cinematic Tool for Representing Cape Verdean Histories in Postcolonial Portuguese Cinema
September 2015 – January 2018
(BA) Lifestyle & Design – Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA)
Film installations: evocations & lamentations (2016) & The Criolo Lens: agua’d chor, agua’d mar (2018)