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— Programa Primavera

Mon06.04.2610:00PM
Galeria Zé dos Bois


Infantile desire by Dana Dawud
Snowy Train by Kim Ji-hwan
Dragking Highway by Junes Dreyfus
The Imperfect Past of a Lapping Water by Saif Fradj
I Know This Much Is True by Sage Ò Tuama

Cíclicos Círculos Cineclube is a cineclub imagined to be nomadic and collaborative in nature, curated by Francis de Assis Abdullah and guest contributors.

This film series, ‘Programa Primavera’, has been curated to offer a poetic exploration of a five-pointed star, linked in a circle by observations and immersive experiences that offer a fresh perspective on the passage of time.

 

눈 내리는 기차 Snowy Train
by Kim Ji-hwan
13min | Cor | 2024 | Korea

Inside the train from Wengen to Lauterbrunnen, the snow-covered landscape and the darkness of the tunnel, three windows offer serene yet ever-changing impressions.

Infantile Desire
by Dana Dawud
4min | Cor | 2026 | UAE / Palestine

The film stages an encounter with re-representation, including AI images, memory, and the uncanny, through fragmented segments that combine AI-generated footage and repurposed found material. It traces a lineage from Freud’s account of his experience at the Acropolis as an uncanny aesthetic shock, through his writings on infantile desire and the libidinal associations between fire and urination. These psychoanalytic motifs are echoed implicitly through cinematic references, including Malina (1991), directed by Werner Schroeter and based on the novel by Ingeborg Bachmann, where repression, psychic splitting, and hallucinated reality structure the film’s exploration of female subjectivity and trauma.

Dragking Highway
by Junes Dreyfus
19min | Cor | 2026 | France

Dragking Highway is a DIY digital road-movie, exploring the different textures and temporalities of transfem hitch-hiking. Mundane conversations of varying degrees of truth are layered over landscapes of never ending highways, recreated gas-stations and compressed horizon lines.

The Imperfect Past of a Lapping Water
by Saif Fradj
5min | P&B | 2024 | Tunise

Questions about time, life and death, through a walk in the city of Sousse with my daughter, visiting the archaeological museum and the Great Mosque. The walk is punctuated by the movement of the sea waves, this border sea separating my childhood from hers.

I Know This Much Is True
by Sage Ò Tuama
45min | Cor | 2024 | USA

Circular bridge crossings towards eternal return- how do we get to the future? Various media, vignettes assembled from diary sketches,Francis de Assis Abdullah is a Syrian-Brazilian researcher specialising in marginal praxis, working with image, word and sound in an effort to develop new forms of expression. 2017 – 2024.

Kim Ji-hwan

Kim Ji-hwan (b. 1990) is a Seoul-based filmmaker. He holds an MFA in Documentary Filmmaking from the Korea National University of Arts and is a founding member of Sorigrim, a collective dedicated to introducing moving image works to audiences in Korea. Moving between film and digital media, Kim’s practice begins with the physical and sensory qualities of film and expands toward ontological inquiries. His works have been presented at numerous film festivals, including Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS), Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (FCDEP), Beijing International Short Film Festival, Leiden Shorts, Split Film Festival, and DMZ International Documentary Film Festival.

Dana Dawud

Dana Dawud is an artist and writer whose practice navigates the intersections of film, montage, and sound design. Engaging with the fluidity of internet cinema, her work expands across online and offline spaces, tracing the ruptures and reverberations of culture. Dawud is the founder of Open Secret (2024–present), an off-site touring screening series featuring emerging and post-net artists, and Pleasurehelmet (2020–present), a sound project archiving experimental pieces and niche internet cultures.

Junes Dreyfus

Junes is a filmmaker and new media artist based in Marseille, France. She uses the language of guerrilla cinema and DIY video-game development tools to archive and re-appropriate real-life spaces that have been rendered hostile or inaccessible.

Saif Fradj

Saif Fradj’s work seeks to represent the fragility of reality and explores strangeness, frontiers, and identity within the context of neo-colonialism. His works have been exhibited and screened in Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, France, and Portugal. Saif is also co-founder of the Bouma Collective and South of Ajdabya, initiatives that reflect his commitment to collaborative and community-focused projects.

Sage Ò Tuama

Sage Ó Tuama is a moving image artist & curator with a focus on personal cinema and the avant-garde. He is the Artistic Director of Film Diary NYC, Editor of CRATER film journal and was 2024 Jonas Mekas Research and Production Fellow at Monira Foundation.

Francis de Assis Abdullah

Francis de Assis Abdullah is a syrian-brazilian researcher specialising in marginal praxis, working with image, word and sound in an effort to develop new forms of expression.

Mon06.04.2610:00PM
Galeria Zé dos Bois
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