Joana Linda
Directing
Biography
Joana Linda, born 1980 in Lisbon, Portugal, attended Communication and Cultural Sciences course at Universidade Lusófona (Lisbon), where she graduated in Cultural and Art Management. In 2001 she started to develop an auto-biographical work in photography, that expanded to video in 2008 with the project "The Seven Sisters", a set of videos exploring the idea of alterity. She exhibited in Portugal and Spain and her work was published in several portuguese and international magazines. In 2009 she made the videoclip "Bird On Your Grave" for the north-american singer Marissa Nadler, premiered in the "Subterranean" TV show of the MTV2 channel. In 2009 she made her first short film "And From Now On There Shall Be No More Wolves (o caçador)", followed in 2011 by "Boduoir".
Known For
An introduction to cinema made by Portuguese-speaking women, narrated by a fictionalized Bárbara Virgínia, the first Portuguese woman director.
As Pioneiras do Cinema em Língua Portuguesa
An essay about disaffection in 7 segments inspired by Stendhal's seven stages of love, "De L'Amour" (1822). Most people are afraid of love because they are afraid of their deepest joy, delight and inner freedom.
In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Inspired by the mythology of "Boco do Inferno" and the magical practices of Crowley and his followers in "Boudoir", a closed woman in your room performs a ritual, like all rituals, will have its consequences.
Boudoir
Inhabited by bodies that question love and death to the limits of madness, that are heard but not seen, and vice versa, Camera Obscura reveals a particular form of appropriation of the work of French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras. From the intersection of writing, video and sound, and his usual experimentalism, Bonneville creates a film made up of ghosts and mysteriously hypnotic and sensory images.
Camera Obscura
Shot with an iPhone, Layla meets Lancelot is a record of the director’s daily journey to and from work. Does happiness lie in accepting repetition or in interrupting it? Everything long awaited always takes place unexpectedly.
Layla meets Lancelot
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