Rita Macedo

Movies

Semanas de Areia, Meses de Cinza, Anos de Pó
Editor
Semanas de Areia, Meses de Cinza, Anos de Pó
Sound
Semanas de Areia, Meses de Cinza, Anos de Pó
Director of Photography
Semanas de Areia, Meses de Cinza, Anos de Pó
Writer
Semanas de Areia, Meses de Cinza, Anos de Pó
Producer
Semanas de Areia, Meses de Cinza, Anos de Pó
Director
Untitled Sequence of Gaps
Director of Photography
An essay film approaching trauma-related memory loss via reflections on light outside the visible spectrum – on what is felt but never seen.
Special Works School
Director of Photography
‘Special Works School’ was the codename used by the British War Office between 1917-1919 for a group of artists tasked with the job of ‘camoufleur’ - painters, textile artists, scenographers, designers, sculptors and scenic painters who were employed by the military to work specifically on developing camouflage technology. The artist, armed with the skill of rendering their surroundings with utmost acuity, was appointed to remove things from the realm of perception. Bambitchell’s ’Special Works School’ takes its name from this military unit to investigate the connections between artistic practice and surveillant technologies. With this video, the duo ask what an overtly aesthetic approach to surveillance can render visible, or invisible. By framing surveillance as an aesthetic practice, ‘Special Works School’ hones in on the psychic, embodied and material dimensions of surveillance - both from the position of the surveillor and the surveilled.
She Whose Blood Is Clotting in My Underwear
Director of Photography
Made for the performance project Cool For You, this video follows an artist’s research on thermal vision and the enhanced gazes of modern warfare. She uses these technical means to discuss intimacy and the body.
You Are Boring!
Sound Mixer
YOU ARE BORING! discusses the troublesome nature of “looking” and “being looked at” in larger contexts including labour within the new economy, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture, contemporary art display and queer representational politics.