Disorder
a film by Maria João Guardão and Susana Mendes Silva
Performances
by Susana Mendes Silva and Miguel Pereira
with sound by Jari Marjamäki
Image
Maria João Guardão
Still images
Susana Mendes Silva
Sound
Steven Bird
Texts
Agnes Martin
Pedro de Llano
Susana Mendes Silva
Editing
Maria João Guardão and Susana Mendes Silva
Sound Post Production
Steven Bird
Production
DESMEDIDA filmes 2014 and Susana Mendes Silva
The authors would like to thank
André Guedes
Antonia Gaeta
Appleton Square
Cátia Mateus
Leal Rios Foundation
Francisco Queirós
Jari Marjamäki
João Seguro
Maria Antónia Linhares de Lima and Paulo Seabra
Miguel Pereira
Miguel Santos
Nuno Crespo
O Rumo do Fumo
Paco Álvarez
Pedro de Llano
Pedro Magalhães
Steven Bird
Tiago Mendes Silva
Vera Appleton
To our passions, dear friends and families
To all the participants
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
3. Maria João Guardão's Filmography
FILMOGRAPHY
2014 – Disorder, short film, co-direction with Susana Mendes Silva (13’04)
2014 – cinematógrafo alkantara, 19 portraits, 7’(alkantara festival, Lisboa)
2013 – o povo é quem mais ordena, short film, 3’44 (Festival Cris du Monde, France)
2012 – cinematógrafo alkantara, 23 portraits, 7’ (alkantara festival/Público Online)
2011 – Eu Sou África, documentary series, 10 episodes, 55’ (RTP, Portugal)
2011 – Les États d’Anne, documentary, 27’ (Ateliers Varan, Paris)
2010 – As Lágrimas de Saladino, on the eponymous choreography by Rui Horta, 90’ (Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa)
2010 – Thinking Heads, installation, , 45’ (in Falemos de Casas... em Português, II Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa)
2008 – Álvaro Siza, 13 palavras e 1 frase, Installation, 20’ (in Siza.Redux, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Brasil)
2007 – B7- sete artistas portugueses em Berlim, documentary, co-direction with Edgar Massul and Hugo Barbosa, 57’(Festival Temps d’Images / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian)
2014 – Disorder, short film, co-direction with Susana Mendes Silva (13’04)
2014 – cinematógrafo alkantara, 19 portraits, 7’(alkantara festival, Lisboa)
2013 – o povo é quem mais ordena, short film, 3’44 (Festival Cris du Monde, France)
2012 – cinematógrafo alkantara, 23 portraits, 7’ (alkantara festival/Público Online)
2011 – Eu Sou África, documentary series, 10 episodes, 55’ (RTP, Portugal)
2011 – Les États d’Anne, documentary, 27’ (Ateliers Varan, Paris)
2010 – As Lágrimas de Saladino, on the eponymous choreography by Rui Horta, 90’ (Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa)
2010 – Thinking Heads, installation, , 45’ (in Falemos de Casas... em Português, II Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa)
2008 – Álvaro Siza, 13 palavras e 1 frase, Installation, 20’ (in Siza.Redux, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Brasil)
2007 – B7- sete artistas portugueses em Berlim, documentary, co-direction with Edgar Massul and Hugo Barbosa, 57’(Festival Temps d’Images / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian)
2. Biographies
Maria João Guardão (Mozambique, 1965) is a journalist and a film-maker. She has worked as a cultural journalist since 1988 for newspapers, magazines and television. In 2010 she founded the production company DESMEDIDA filmes. Among other projects and documentary film work, she has directed the documentary series Eu Sou África, the short films Les États d’Anne and o povo é quem mais ordena (selected for Festival Cris du Monde, La Ciotat, 2013) and cinematógrafo alkantara, a series of portraits of artists working within Alkantara Festival (Lisboa).
Maria João has a degree in Communication Sciences by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and studied Documentary Film-making at Ateliers Varan in Paris.
Susana Mendes Silva (Lisboa, 1972) is a visual artist and a performer. Her work incorporates elements of research and archival practice that leads to the creation of works whose historical and political references become visible as exhibitions, actions and performances that employ a wide variety of media. Her universe considers and reframes different social contexts without ever losing track of the individual's uniqueness. Her psychological intimacy and her voice are often the means for the diffusion and reception of poetic and political messages that call upon them. Susana studied Sculpture at FBAUL (Lisbon, PT), and in the MPhil/PhD Fine Art (Studio Based Research) at Goldsmiths College for which she was awarded a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She has a PhD based in her practice — "Performance as an Intimate Encounter" — by the College of the Arts of the University of Coimbra. Susana is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Évora, where she lectures, since 1999, in the Landscape Architecture MA.
Maria João has a degree in Communication Sciences by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and studied Documentary Film-making at Ateliers Varan in Paris.
Susana Mendes Silva (Lisboa, 1972) is a visual artist and a performer. Her work incorporates elements of research and archival practice that leads to the creation of works whose historical and political references become visible as exhibitions, actions and performances that employ a wide variety of media. Her universe considers and reframes different social contexts without ever losing track of the individual's uniqueness. Her psychological intimacy and her voice are often the means for the diffusion and reception of poetic and political messages that call upon them. Susana studied Sculpture at FBAUL (Lisbon, PT), and in the MPhil/PhD Fine Art (Studio Based Research) at Goldsmiths College for which she was awarded a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She has a PhD based in her practice — "Performance as an Intimate Encounter" — by the College of the Arts of the University of Coimbra. Susana is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Évora, where she lectures, since 1999, in the Landscape Architecture MA.
1. Presentation text
This is not the first time that we collaborated with each other, but it is the first time that we decided to create something together: a film. Its point of departure is the installation “Square Disorder” (Appleton Square, Lisbon, 2008), the installation "Rectangle Disorder” (Leal Rios Foundation, Lisbon, 2014) by Susana Mendes Silva and the performances created by Susana Mendes Silva and Miguel Pereira — "#1 [preview]", "#2 [instruction manual]" and "#3 [finissage]" — with sound by Jari Marjamäki. But what we became interested in was not in a documentational process but rather in constructing a new visual object, especially because of the scarce telegeny of the original installations, of people's movements that most of the time resemble mimic or dance, or of what could be translated in images — as they seemed to be another form to experience something that is so physical and less visual. As we affirm in the synopsis, we tried to enter the uncanny territory of this giant, yet almost invisible, web to address the white cube space as concept, as an experiential endeavour, and the way it controls us. Through it we question unresolved dualities: the fine lines between disorder and affection, geometrical order and disturbance, rationality and magical thinking, discipline and eroticism, void and pregnant, organic and artificial. The final result is a combination of an intense co-authorship project that was developed almost as choreography between a film-maker and a visual artist.
Maria João Guardão and Susana Mendes Silva, 2014
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