I was invited by Salão de Beleza Bela to make a contribution to their BANALITY SHOW in BELA TV. The challenge: to make a video telling a story as uneventful as possible.

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Putting things out of context was always fundamental to pornography.

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At first sight you see only white noise. But under the right circumstances, more is revealed.

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Clocks are expected to tell the time. This clock also tells the time, but one that is impossible in our world.

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The maestro is forced to move in a way he never intended to and in this way creates music he never wished for.

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In 1962 the construction works for the new bridge across river Tejo connecting Lisboa and Almada started. Since then the city’s landscape changed forever. Inspired by a famous tile mosaic of Lisboa’s landscape (found in Museu Nacional do Azulejo), this work recreates a photographic view of the city which lets us see it without the bridge again.

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Just like a real candle, but flat.

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«Agartha Existe» (Agartha Exists) is the result of a workshop given by Hugo Brito which challenged us to create something not based on an predetermined idea or desire but by making it evolve out of an investigation process. The initial imposed subject was Atlantis but everyone was free to organically evolve to something else through investigation.

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«Poupe-nos» is a small 30″ clip made just for fun to participate in a SIC television contest about environment awareness. Authors: Sílvia González, Mário Silva, Rui Almeida and me. It ended up being one of the chosen clips to be broadcasted on Environment Day.

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«Em Caxemira Não Perguntem Por mim» (In Kashmir Don’t Ask For Me) is a photo-reportage I wrote describing how I was scammed in Kashmir while travelling in India in 2004. It was published in the Fugas supplement of the portuguese daily newspaper O Público on March 31^st 2007.

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Pin-up girls always look at us. And they all look the same. Using about 100 photos of a pin-up girl this generative video slowly melts several bodies of a pin-up girl into a single multifaceted body which still insists in sharply gazing at us. Being generated by an algorithm in real time this video never repeats itself and evolves forever.

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Self-portrait is an installation which consists of a large flat screen placed in a horizontal position and framed inside a box in a way that the screen becomes square. Placed in this way, I look up to the viewers who, in their turn, look down on me.

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In Portuguese the word “foca” is the imperative tense of the verb to focus. It also refers to the animal seal. This video explores that coincidence.

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I was asked to make a trailer on myself. I made this video in which, using a video projector, I projected the french trailer of Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly directly on myself.

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«Mecânica da Vida» (Life Mechanics) is an essay I wrote in Portuguese dedicated to a friend of mine. It is my attempt to organize in a single text and share with him a bunch of ideas that were scattered in my mind.

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Flesh melting over melted flesh. Flesh doing what flesh does.

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The audio piece «Emoções» (Emotions) is the result of a Workshop by Hugo Brito in ArCo. I started by filming footage of 4 drawings and then it evolved from there.

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A homage to classical still life painting tradition.

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I made a transcription for music box of the famous portuguese pop song “Telepatia” by singer/composer Lara Li.

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