On Friday March 31st at 7pm Portuguese filmmaker Sílvia das Fadas will present her 16mm double screen film, Light, Blaze, Fulgor — Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing (Luz, clarão, fulgor — augúrios para um enquadramento não hierárquico e venturoso, 2018–ongoing) at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Inspired by the life and work of the early 20th century anarchist António Gonçalves Correia, Light, Blaze, Fulgor, anticipates "a fulgurous de-hierarchization of the act of seeing, while attempting to offer a pedagogy of land and conviviality in the bioregion of Alentejo."
Sílvia das Fadas is an artist-filmmaker, convivial researcher, and educator based in southern Portugal. She holds an MFA in Film and Video from CalArts (USA), was a cooperation fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany, 2019), and a visiting fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics – The Graduate Center, CUNY (2020). She is currently a PhD-in-Practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, supported by a FCT scholarship; and the curator of CINEMA FULGOR, a cinema with mobile roots that participates in the construction of a living and autonomous rurality.
The screening is sponsored by Cineseries, Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of History of Art, Department of Art, Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts. It will be followed by a casual discussion with the filmmaker.
