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Sara Castelo Branco is a curator, critic and researcher, based in Portugal, working on the intersections of art and the moving image. She holds a PhD in ‘Arts and Sciences of Art’ and ‘Communication Sciences’ at the Université Paris 1— Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris) and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon), as a grantee from FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology. Her areas of interest are experimental and artists’ cinemas, film and media theory, eco-media, visual politics, energetic politics, mythology and trans-temporality, and contemporary art. Currently, she is a collaborator researcher at the CIC.Digital - Centre for Research in Communication, Information and Digital Culture (FCSH-UNL), and an integrated researcher at CITAR – Center for Science and Technology of the Arts (Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa), where she is part of editorial board from The Science and Technology of the Arts Collection (CITAR UCP Press). In 2025, she will be the recipient of a Javier & Marta Villavecchia Fellowship from the Haas Library / Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). In 2014, she concluded a master's degree in ‘Art Studies - Art Theory and Criticism’ at the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, and in 2012 a degree in ‘Communication and Cultural Sciences’ at the Universidade Lusófona do Porto. She organized the symposiums 'Solarity Prospects' (with Claudia Peppel) at ICI Berlin/Bard College (Berlin, Germany) in 2023 and 'Back of My Hand' at Carpintarias de São Lázaro (Lisbon, Portugal) in 2022. Her practice has been developing from the close articulation between academic research, writing, and the curatorship of exhibitions and experimental film screenings. She has curated art exhibitions and screenings of artists’ films and experimental cinema in institutions such as Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna, Austria, 2025), Centro de Arte Oliva (São João da Madeira, Portugal, 2025), ACUD Galerie (Berlin, Germany, 2023), Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst (Berlin, Germany, 2019-2024), CRIPTA 747 (Turin, Italy, 2021), Brotéria (Lisbon, Portugal, 2024), CSL (Lisbon, Portugal, 2022), Galerias Municipais de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal, 2020), and Galeria Zé dos Bois (Lisbon, Portugal, 2021). She was selected to do artistic research residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France, 2023) and at CRIPTA 747 (Turin, Italy, 2021). She regularly contributes with book chapters, articles and essays to monographs, art magazines and catalogues (Mousse, Archive Books, Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Contemporânea, ATLAS Projectos, among others).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sara Castelo Branco

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FA19-514A-1E45

Email addresses

  • smbranco@ucp.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
  • Humanities - Arts - Arts
Education
Degree Classification
2016 - 2022
Concluded
 Arts et Science de l'Art / Communication Sciences (Doutoramento)
Major in Cinema; Contemporary Art
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
"Other Cinema. Interpellations in Portuguese Contemporary Art" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good with Distinction (magna cum laude)
2012 - 2014
Concluded
 Artistic Studies - Art Theory and Criticism (Mestrado)
Major in Art Theory and Criticism
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
"Portuguese Cinema and Trans-Temporality - Memory and Myth" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19 (excellent)
2009 - 2012
Concluded
 Communication Sciences and Culture (Licenciatura)
Major in Communication and Journalism
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal
2020 - Current Researcher (Research) Centro de Investigação em Informação Comunicação e Cultura Digital, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/10/01 - 2024/02/01 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016 - Current Writer and contemporary art critic at the magazine Contemporânea. Contemporânea, Portugal
2017/03/10 - 2017/04/30 Collaboration (art criticism texts) with BoCa - Bienal de Artes Contemporâneas. Boca Bienal de Artes Contemporâneas, Portugal
2015/03/24 - 2016/12/31 Responsible for the production of fourteen contemporary art exhibitions. Bienal da Maia 2015, Portugal
2016/03/01 - 2016/09/30 Traineeship in the cinematographic program of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Porto). Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Portugal
2013/04/01 - 2016/06/30 Extracurricular traineeship in cultural journalism at the magazine Time Out Porto. Time Out Porto, Portugal
2014 - 2016 Writer and contemporary art critic at the magazine Artecapital. ARTECAPITAL Magazine de Arte Contemporânea, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2011/12/30 Extracurricular traineeship in cultural communication at Teatro Nacional São João. Teatro Nacional São João, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2016 - 2020 PhD thesis: Other Cinema. Interpellations in Portuguese Contemporary Art
SFRH/BD/114806/2016
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Darkness Visible - Art, the sun and the light". In Sun Burns, edited by Hugo de Almeida Pinho. Milan, Italy: Mousse Publishing, 2024.
    In press
  2. Branco, Sara Castelo. "The Singular within the Plural. The Archive as a Heuristic Instrument.". In Quadrum 50 anos, uma fogueira cultural, edited by Paulo Mendes. Lisbon, Portugal: Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, 2024.
    In press
  3. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Imaginations for the Centre of the Earth - Representations of the earth's core as a conductor of the real". In Under the Ground, edited by Hugo de Almeida Pinho. Berlim, Germany: Archive Books, 2023.
    In press
  4. Branco, Sara Castelo. "The Collective Dynamics of the Object – The Synergetic Experience as a Transformative Movement of the Real". In Trabalho Capital – Ensaio sobre Gestos e Fragmentos, 335-338. Porto, Portugal: Centro de Arte Oliva, 2023.
    In press
  5. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Light Holes". In Uccellacci e Uccellini, edited by 7217-88CC-22FD, 199-205. Portugal: i2ADS - FBAUP, 2023.
    Published
  6. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Notes on the Sun, the Light, the Eye, and the Blindness.". In Copyleft - Prolétique Alternée des Images., edited by Karen Luong; Jérôme Cognent. Aix-en-Provence, France: La Non-Maison., 2023.
    Published
  7. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Other Ways of Seeing". In Paradox of Plenty, edited by Hugo de Almeida Pinho, 23-56. Berlin, Germany: ATLAS Projectos/Kunstraum Botschaft-Camões Berlim, 2021.
    Published
  8. Branco, Sara Castelo. "The Archive in Reverse - The Power of Origin and Inconclusiveness in the works of Filipa César and Ângela Ferreira". 273-296. Lisbon, Portugal: Livros ICNOVA, 2021.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Branco, Sara Castelo. Solarity Prospects - From Solar Futures to Future Solidarity. Berlin, Germany. 2025.
    Under revision • Editor
Exhibition catalog
  1. Branco, Sara Castelo. Feel it, no fear. The flesh yields and is numb - about the world of Filipe Marques. Filipe Marques, 2024.
  2. Branco, Sara Castelo. Ângela Ferreira e Pedro Brígida - Still Cabanon. Anozero – Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, 2017.
  3. Branco, Sara Castelo. 'Apontamentos sobre a Deserção das Salas de Cinema Angolanas' for the exhibition "ANGOLA da certeza da madrugada à clareza do amanhecer". Espaço Mira, 2017.
  4. Branco, Sara Castelo. O Diálogo do Passado com o Presente na obra de Manoel de Oliveira.. Lugares de Viagem – Bienal da Maia 2015. Câmara Municipal da Maia, 2015.
  5. Branco, Sara Castelo. SUB40 - Arte e Artistas no Porto - para lá da memória conhecida.. Galeria da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett - Câmara Municipal do Porto, 2014.
  6. Branco, Sara Castelo. Para Além do Mal - Como uma Pintura Figurativa.. Diário de Bordo - EXPEDIÇÃO. Saco Azul Associação Cultural/DGARTES, 2014.
  7. Branco, Sara Castelo. India Song - One Hundred Years of Marguerite Duras: Words and Images of Insistence.. Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Llosa (Faculdade de Letras Universidade do Porto), 2014.
Journal article
  1. Carlos Natálio; Alexandra Balona; João Pedro Amorim; Sara Castelo Branco. "Editorial: V16 N2". Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts 16 2 (2024): 5-7. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105000047250&partnerID=8YFLogxK.
    Open access • Published • 10.34632/jsta.2024.17623
  2. Sara Castelo Branco. "On the exhibition 'Premium Connect' by Tabita Rezaire: the reactivation of the therapeutic and political potential of magic". Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image 10 2 (2023): 201-207. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/43146.
    Open access • Published • 10.14591/aniki.v10n2.998
  3. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Deferrals and Atavisms in the Filmic Experience of 'Os Animais que Parecem Moscas' by João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva". 11 (2022): 114-122. https://revistaharte-w.weebly.com/rha-w-nordm-11.html.
    Published
  4. Branco, Sara Castelo. "The 'Medium' as a Heuristic and Intermedial Device - An approach to the Exhibitions 'Meio Concreto' by Alexandre Estrela, and ´Lua Cão` by Alexandre Estrela and João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva". ARTis ON (2021): https://doi.org/10.37935/iha.aon.2021.0002.
    Published • 10.37935/iha.aon.2021.0002
  5. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Notes on Unstable Cinematic Horizons: Depth, Frontality, and Circularity in Cinematic Art Installations". 4 (2021): 115-133. https://thegaragejournal.org/en/article/72.
    Published
  6. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Between the Screen-Sediment and the Shattered Window: The Deconstruction of the Screens Limits and Frames in Moving Image Installations". Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts 12 2 (2020): 20-36. https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/article/view/8527.
    Open access • Published
  7. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Magic lanterns in the work of Renato Ferrão and Francisco Tropa: from reproduction to presentation". RCL Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens 53 (2020): 132-149. https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/index.php/rcl/article/view/250/255.
    Published
  8. Castelo Branco, Sara. "Portuguese Cinema, the Transtemporal and the Myth". Aniki : Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento 3 1 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v3n1.178.
    10.14591/aniki.v3n1.178
Journal issue
  1. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Technology and magic - magical-mystical powers of technical images". Interact - Online Journal of Art, Culture and Technology 39 (2023): https://revistainteract.pt/projeto/.
    Accepted • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Branco, Sara Castelo. "The Apocalypse as the End of Some World in the World", UMBIGO – Magazine for Contemporary Art and Culture, 2024
  2. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Texts on the works of artists Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Zach Blas for the special edition of Contemporânea magazine, dedicated to post-humanism.", Contemporânea, 2024
  3. Branco, Sara Castelo. "No Interior do Casulo Amarelo - Ben Trong Vo Ken Vang", Brotéria, 2024
  4. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Sempre - text about the homonymous film by Luciana Fina", CONTEMPORÂNEA, 2024, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/2024/luciana-fina-sempre.
  5. Branco, Sara Castelo. ""Salomé Lamas — Ecofeminism"", CONTEMPORÂNEA, 2024, https://www.batalhacentrodecinema.pt/editorial/fs-contemporanea-filme-sessao-programada-por-salome-lamas/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_term=2024-12-12.
  6. Branco, Sara Castelo. "É Noite na América - text about the homonymous exhibition by Ana Vaz, at Escolas das Artes UCP, Porto.", Contemporânea, 2022, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/07-08-09-2022/ana-vaz-e-noite-na-america.
  7. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Primeiras Impressão de uma Paisagem - text about the homonymous exhibition by João Nisa, at Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon.", Contemporânea, 2022, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/10-11-12/joao-nisa-primeiras-impressoes-de-uma-paisagem?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=contemporanea_newsletter&utm_term=2022-11-29&fbclid=IwAR0JJ8UKVDakTLwF7_Qsw7bwIllxRuLjrGbKlULXJiZst_Q7G31NEMqfV18.
  8. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Wall - text about the homonymous exhibition by Inès Moldavsky, at Galeria Municipal do Porto.", Contemporânea, 2021, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/07-08-09-2021/ines-moldavsky-wall-gdr?fbclid=IwAR3fn1ouuTvsw5wHI1EUvG6cLi28IqwMouB9NcWKXHN32SlrXcSZaBs2WDw.
  9. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Gaia - text about the homonymous exhibition by Salomé Lamas, at Gnration, Braga.", Contemporânea, 2021, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/04-05-06-2021/salome-lamas-gaia?fbclid=IwAR09v_ME9TtoyAKUoXyZiX8sdkeIwI1j2PV38qaaBBgqLXI5jeUoZaeW3zs.
  10. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Cemitério das Âncoras - text about the homonymous exhibition by Veronika Spierenburg and Nuno Barroso, at Galeria da Boavista (Lisbon)", Contemporânea, 2021, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/04-05-06-2021/veronika-spierenburg-e-nuno-barroso-cemiterio-das-ancoras.
  11. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Entre o Anúncio e a Denúncia: a Obra Prospectiva de Silvestre Pestana - anthological text on the work of the artist Silvestre Pestana.", Contemporânea, 2021, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/04-05-06-2021/entre-o-anuncio-e-denuncia-obra-prospectiva-de-silvestre-pestana?fbclid=IwAR09v_ME9TtoyAKUoXyZiX8sdkeIwI1j2PV38qaaBBgqLXI5jeUoZaeW3zs.
  12. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Von Calhau! - text on the work of the artists Von Calhau!", Contemporânea, 2021
  13. Branco, Sara Castelo. "The World in Images - Essay for "Under the Ground"", Jornal das Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, 2020, https://galeriasmunicipais.pt/jornal/o-mundo-em-imagens-ensaio-para-under-the-ground/.
  14. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Pathosformel - text about the homonymous exhibition by Vasco Araújo, at Escolas das Artes UCP, Porto.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2020, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/10-11-12-2020/vasco-araujo-pathosformel?fbclid=IwAR3Qp62OHwfEZ7I98vXACNUUbn1lUTJT7IhyeTqkGSHpZllu1shRfkbXIHY.
  15. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Blind Faith - text about the homonymous exhibition by Diogo Evangelista, at Escola das Artes UCP, Porto.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2020, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/10-11-12-2020/diogo-evangelista-blind-faith?fbclid=IwAR3Qp62OHwfEZ7I98vXACNUUbn1lUTJT7IhyeTqkGSHpZllu1shRfkbXIHY.
  16. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Métal Hurlant - text about the homonymous exhibition by Alexandre Estrela, at Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2019, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/06-07-2019/alexandre-estrela-metal-hurlant.
  17. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Spell Reel - text about the homonymous film by Filipa César.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2017, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/11-2017/spell-reel-2017-de-filipa-cesar.
  18. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Them or Us! - text about the homonymous exhibition at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2017, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/08-2017/them-or-us.
  19. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Espaço de Fluxos - text about the homonymous exhibition by Diogo Evangelista, at ZDB, Lisboa.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2017, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/06-07-2017/espaco-de-fluxos.
  20. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Os Animais que ao Longe Parecem Moscas - text about the homonymous exhibition by João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, at Núcleo de Arte da Oliva, São João da Madeira.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2017, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/05-06-2017/os-animais-que-ao-longe-parecem-moscas.
  21. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Baklite - text about the homonymous exhibition by Alexandre Estrela, at CAV Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2017, http://sub.contemporanea.pt/fevereiro2017/alexandre-estrela/.
  22. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Esgotaram-se os Nomes para as Tempestades - text about the homonymous exhibition by Tatiana Macedo, at Culturgest, Porto.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2017, https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/04-2018/tatiana-macedo-esgotaram-se-os-nomes-para-tempestades.
  23. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Explicação do Metal - Cap. B e C, Os Intrusos; Sem Electricidade - text about the exhibition homonym by Eduardo Matos, at Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto.", 2016, https://www.artecapital.net/exposicao-479-eduardo-matos-explicacao-do-metal-cap-b-e-c-os-intrusos-sem-electricidade.
  24. Branco, Sara Castelo. "4.56.20 - text about the homonymous exhibition by João Tabarra, at Solar Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Vila do Conde.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2016
  25. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Salomé Lamas - text about the work of the artist and filmmaker Salomé Lamas.", 2016
  26. Branco, Sara Castelo. "PIGS - text about the homonymous group exhibition, at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2016
  27. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Conversation in a Yes/No Landscape Insect Incest - text about the exhibition homonym by Henrik Olesen and Gerry Bibby, at Sismógrafo.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2016
  28. Branco, Sara Castelo. "O Livro da Sede - text about the homonymous exhibition by Francisco Queimadela and Mariana Caló, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2016
  29. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Text about the talk 'Uma Janela para Alguma Outra Coisa' on the exhibition 'Upcoming Images' by Hugo de Almeida Pinho with the presence of Jorge Leandro Rosa, Sousa Dias, and Paulo Mendes.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2016
  30. Branco, Sara Castelo. "No Limiar da Visibilidade - text about the homonymous exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto.", CONTEMPORÂNEA , 2016
  31. Branco, Sara Castelo. "A Autoscopia de Isaac Julien em Playtime - text about the homonymous exhibition at Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid.", ARTECAPITAL - Magazine de Arte Contemporânea, 2015, https://www.artecapital.net/exposicao-442-isaac-julien-playtime.
  32. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Pode o Museu ser um Jardim? - text about the homonymous group exhibition, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto", ARTECAPITAL - Magazine de Arte Contemporânea, 2015, https://www.artecapital.net/exposicao-441-colectiva-pode-o-museu-ser-um-jardim-.
  33. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Água e Luz em Todos os Andares - text about the homonymous exhibition by Renato Ferrão, at Sismógrafo, Porto.", ARTECAPITAL - Magazine de Arte Contemporânea, 2015, https://artecapital.net/exposicao-449-renato-ferrao-cascatas-e-desabamentos.
  34. Branco, Sara Castelo. "T.D. Transmissões Directas - text about the homonymous exhibition by João Penalva, at Palácio dos Correios, Porto.", ARTECAPITAL - Magazine de Arte Contemporânea, 2015, https://www.artecapital.net/exposicao-468-joao-penalva-t-d-transmissoes-directas.
  35. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Upcoming Images - text about the homonymous exhibition by Hugo de Almeida Pinho, at Maus Hábitos, Porto.", ARTECAPITAL - Magazine de Arte Contemporânea, 2015
  36. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Terra-homem-céu / Céu-homem-terra - text about the exhibition 'Sufoco' by Silvestre Pestana, at Espaço Mira, Porto.", ARTECAPITAL - Magazine de Arte Contemporânea, 2014, https://www.artecapital.net/perspetiva-169-sara-castelo-branco-terra-homem-ceu-ceu-homem-terra.
  37. Branco, Sara Castelo. "Quem cala e come, dos cravos morre - text about the homonymous exhibition by Hugo de Almeida Pinho.", FLANZINE, 2014
Website
  1. Branco, Sara Castelo. Apontamentos sobre Atavismo, Reflexo ou o Devir Póstumo do Cinema.. 2015. https://a-nortada.tumblr.com/post/116307215293/apontamentos-sobre-atavismo-reflexo-ou-o-devir.

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. 2024. "Curator of film screening 'Solar Futures'', at ECOPRAXIS/Galeria Zé dos Bois (Lisbon, Portugal). With works by: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Jérôme Cognet, Susan Schuppli, Yamazaki Hiroshi.".
  2. 2024. "Curator of group exhibition 'Hierophanies', at Brotéria (Lisbon, Portugal), with the artists Andreia Santana, Diana Policarpo, Haron Farocki, Hugo de Almeida Pinho, Louis Henderson, Maria Loboda, Onyeka Igwe, Riar Rizaldi.".
  3. 2023. "Curator of exhibition and film screening 'Solarity Prospects', at ACUD Macht Neu (Berlin, Germany), October-November 2023. With works by: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Luiza Luz, Hugo de Almeida Pinho, Manuel Sékou, The Otolith Group, Riar Rizaldi, Semiconductor, Jérôme Cognet, Susan Schuppli.".
  4. 2022. "Curator of the group exhibition 'Back of My Hand', at Carpintarias de São Lázaro (Lisbon, Portugal), May-June 2022. With works by: Ismaïl Bahri, Uriel Orlow, Basma Alsharif, Sanaz Sohrabi, Julien Prévieux, Hugo de Almeida Pinho, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Diogo Evangelista, João Tabarra, Oscar Santillán.".
  5. 2021. "Curator of film screening 'Blinding Light', at CRIPTA 747 / Cinema Fratelli Marx (Turin, Italy). With works by: Semiconductor, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Jérôme Cognet, Alex Mackenzie.".
  6. 2021. "Curator of film screening 'To Film With One Hand My Other Hand', at ZDB – Galeria Zé dos Bois (Lisbon, Portugal). With works by Ismaïl Bahri, Harun Farocki, Chick Strand, Marguerite Duras, Maria Lassnig, Melisa Liebenthal, Filipa César, Yvonne Rainer, Gary Beydler, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Onyeka Igwe, Miklos Bandy & Stella Simon, Manoel de Oliveira.".
  7. 2020. "Co-curator of film screening 'Under the Ground', at Galerias Municipais de Lisboa / Cinema São Jorge (Lisbon, Portugal). With works by Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Basim Magdy, Gary Beydler, Karrabing Film Collective, Lisa Rave, Louis Henderson, Nicholas Mangan, Rosa Barba, Sandra Lahire, Toshio Matsumoto, Ursula Biemann, Yto Barrada.".
  8. 2019. "Co-curator of film screening 'Out Off Nature', at Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst (Berlin, Germany). With works by Ali Cherri, Louis Henderson, Pedro Neves Marques, Ben Thorp Brown, David Kelley e Patty Chang, Mariana Silva.".
Visual artwork
  1. Branco, Sara Castelo. Artistic research residency at CRIPTA 747 (Turin, Italy), 2021.
  2. Branco, Sara Castelo. Artistic research residency at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France), 2023.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024 Ecologicity and Vision: the anthropocentric relationships between visuality, post-photography and non-human perspectives in the films 'Can the Sun Lie?' (2014) by Susan Schuppli and 'Europium' (2014) by Lisa Rave International Conference Counter-Image 2024 - Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil)
2021 From Synesthesia to Kinesthesia: the Video Installations by Jonathan Saldanha and Alexandre Estrela.
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018 Spatial-Temporal Deferrals - Film, Sculpture and Installation. Conferência Internacional Times and Mouvements of the Images
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Escola Superior de Artes e Design do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal)
2018 Subjectivity, Technology and the Performativity of Devices: the Exhibition's Architectures in the works of Alexandre Estrela and João Maria Gusmão VIII Encontro Anual da AIM – Associação da Imagem em Movimento
Universidade de Aveiro (PT) (Aveiro, Portugal)
2016 Cinema / Contemporary Art: Obsolescence, Subjectivity, Technology - João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva. XXII International Conference of Film Studies – Contemporary Film and Media Aesthetics
XXII International Conference of Film Studies – Contemporary Film and Media Aesthetics (Roma, Italy)
2015 Portuguese Cinema and History: between Myth and Memory. III Congreso Internacional Historia, Literatura y Arte en el Cine en Español y Portugués
Facultad de Traducción y Documentación - Universidad de Salamanca (ES) (Salamanca, Spain)
2015 Portuguese Cinema and the Trans-temporal: between Myth and Memory. V Encontro Anual da AIM – Associação da Imagem em Movimento
ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (PT) (Lisbon, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/10/23 - 2023/10/23 Organization of the symposium 'Solarity Prospects' at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, in cooperation with Bard College Berlin. The program brings together researchers, activists and philosophers to address contemporary and historical politics of the sun, as well as how energy has shaped ideologies linked to work, capital and geopolitics. With the participation of Angela Anderson, Oxana Timofeeva, Michael Marder, Amanda Boetzkes, Ricardo Jorge Gafeira, Michela Coletta, Kai Koddenbrock, Gökçe Günel. (2023 - 2023)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Germany

Bard College Berlin, Germany
2022/05 - 2022/06 Organization of the symposium 'Back of My Hand'. Program based on the potential of the hand in relation to certain dynamics involved in the emancipatory potential and in the artistic problematization of documentary cinema. With Philippe-Alain Michaud, Sami Khatib, Jorge Leandro Rosa, Stefanie Baumann, Sven Spieker, and Teresa Mendes Flores. (2022/05 - 2022/06)
Conference
 Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/08/07 - 2024/08/07 Convener of panel '(Post)human landscapes in art' at International Conference Counter-Image 2024 - Photo Impulse: Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking.
Congress
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2024/05/10 - 2024/05/10 Tutelage and studio visits of the final year students of the Degree in Fine Arts.
Other
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2024/05/09 - 2024/05/09 Convener of panel 'Art & Politics' at Spring Seminar - History(ies) of Art 2024 (CITAR-Universidade Católica Portuguesa).
Symposium
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2024/02/16 - 2024/02/16 Participation in the talk 'Shamanic Visions' with Colectivo Los Ingrávidos at Batalha - Centro de Cinema (Porto, PT).
Batalha - Centro de Cinema, Portugal
2023/05/12 - 2023/05/12 Convener of panel 'Cinema / Non-fiction' at Spring Seminar - Montage 2023 (CITAR-Universidade Católica do Porto).
Seminar
 Spring Seminar - Montage 2023 (CITAR-Universidade Católica do Porto)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2022/09/28 - 2022/09/28 Participation in roundtable 'Landscapes of Care: the Emergence of Care in Unstable Territories' at Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto.
Round table
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
2022/07/14 - 2022/07/14 Convener of panel 'Museums, Exhibitions and Colonial Heritage: Decolonial Practices' at International Conference Counter-Image 2022 - Photo Impulse: Decolonizing Visuality.
Conference
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Presentation of the magazine Contemporânea IV - Moving Image and convener of the conversation between Mário Micaelo and Jonathan Saldanha.
Solar - Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Presentation of film 'Seduction of a Cyborg' in the Film Retrospective of Lynn Hershman Leeson.
Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Convener of conversation with André Cepeda and Pedro Barateiro - Conversations: Recent Portuguese Art in the Serralves Collection.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Presentation of the film 'The Convent' (by Manoel de Oliveira) - Manoel de Oliveira Screening: Close-Up - Complete Works, 2015.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Convener of conversation 'A Window to Something Else' with Jorge Leandro Rosa, Paulo Mendes and Sousa Dias - about the exhibition 'Upcoming Images' by Hugo de Almeida Pinho, 2015.
Maus Hábitos, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Participation in talk about the exhibition 'Sub 40', with Guy Amado and José Maia, at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto.
Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Presentation of film 'Blood' (by Pedro Costa) - Film screening Cinema and Photography: Works by Directors and Photographers.
Espaço Mira, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Participation in talk about the exhibition 'Pôr a Paisagem a Vibrar em Consonância_______', with José Maia, Samuel Silva, Marco Moreira and António de Sousa.
Espaço Mira, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Editorial board of the The Science and Technology of the Arts Collection / CITAR UCP Press
Member
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (2183-0088) CITAR UCP Press

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2017 - 2017 Jury member of the Experimental Competition of Curtas Vila do Conde - 25º Festival Internacional de Cinema. Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal