I make documentary films about how things are passed on. A grape harvest in the Douro, my grandmother describing her wedding, a folk group rehearsing near Paris, a bilingual theatre company forty years on stage. What draws me is what people keep doing when nobody is asking them to, and what quietly changes in the keeping.
Filming alone has been at the heart of my practice since my first short film, in 2015. A small camera lets me blend into a room and become almost invisible. I hold it at the height of the hands rather than the faces, at the height of what is working. Staying for months rather than hours is what opens the moments an interview never reaches.
A forty-year theatrical odyssey led by two women, where migration becomes living memory on stage. Cá e Lá: a bilingual journey of resistance, remembrance, and creation.
Doc - 29 min - 2025
Teresa tells us about her wedding day. Ismenia tells us about her wedding day. Teresa lost her husband less than a year ago. Ismenia lost her husband 30 years ago. Teresa is 85 years old and remembers everything. Ismenia is 90 years old and has trouble remembering. There is a photo of Ismenia's wedding. There are no records of Teresa's. Isménia and Teresa are my grandmothers and I'm getting married.
student project
Doc - 14 min - 2024
There`s Life in the word Harvest. In the faces, the weight of work, of smiles. Songs echoes, the motors, the sheave crushing the grapes. Douro shapes my grandparents, shapes me. A film of affections, about the family united around the table, losses that still weight on the chest, in the house.
student project
Doc - 25 min - 2015