FUSO

Resilience, once more. In its 16th edition, FUSO keeps its focus on the present: the experiences of war and exile, as well as social struggles, are echoed in video art through personal narratives, testimonies, satire and provocation, empathy, and solidarity.

FUSO AZORES Screenings, curator Rachel Korman
DUPLACENA 77
Opening 27 August, 6.30pm
28 August to 1 September, 2pm to 6pm, 5 to 7 September, 4pm to 8pm

Eight films that move between physical and emotional territories, with a poetic but also critical look at the society we live in, make up the Azores Video Art Exhibition.

Conversation with Isabel Nogueira
DUPLACENA 77
27 August, 6.30pm

OPEN CALL
Pátio do Carvão, MAAT
28 August, 10pm

The twelve participants were born between 1960 and 1995 and, according to the rules of the festival, they live and work in Portugal and/or are of Portuguese nationality. They have something more precious that unites them in this TIME ZONE: the will to capture the present.

...and elsewhere, curator Marie Voignier (France)
MNAC
29 August, 10pm

A selection from the CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques) that feature movies by Randa Maddah, Basma al-Sharif, Larissa Sansour and Marwa Arsanios.

The mere possibility of a future, curator Laila Hida (Moroco)
Palácio Sinel de Cordes
30 August, 10pm

From the wet and dry landscapes - deserts, seas, rivers, and cities - tales of disappearance and appearance reveal the enduring relation of humans to their environment.

From Rio de Janeiro into Amazonia and beyond, curator Bruno Z’Graggen (Video Window, Zurich)
Palácio Galveias
31 August, 10pm

VIDEO WINDOW (Zurich) as a guest at Fuso 2024, presents a programme entitled From Rio de Janeiro into Amazonia and beyond with three videoworks by the internationally renowned Brazilian-Swiss artists duo Dias & Riedweg, based in Rio de Janeiro: Funk Staden (2007) and The Mirror and the Dusk (2011), followed by the latest one The Reverse of Heaven (2023).

TVTV: Four More Years, curator Lori Zippay (EAI-USA)
Museu da Marioneta
1 September, 10pm

In the 52 years since the political protests at the 1972 Republican National Convention that were documented by the pioneering video collective TVTV, the U.S. finds itself once again in an eerily similar time of divisive upheaval, that renders the work both timely and prescient. It was the immediacy and intimacy of the small format Sony Portapak camera that radically shattered the rules of mass media programming, much as cell phone video and texts do today.

. Expressions of Distance
The Department of Cinema/Moving Image of Ar.Co presents five works made during the last academic year (2023/24).
. Announcement of Open Call winners