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Joao Leal

Chasms

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 8:34 | Portugal | 2016

A researcher trying to cope with his research, while avoiding narrative. Does he know where he is walking himself into? Will he be able to come out of it? A film so unsuccessful in resisting narrative as it is in finding answers.

Practitioner and teacher. Participates in solo and group exhibitions since 2001. Won in 2005, ex-aequo, the "Pedro Miguel Frade" award, from the Portuguese Centre of Photography, with the work "Night Order’. PhD candidate at the University of South Wales in connection to the European Centre for Documentary Research. Has a degree in Audiovisual Communication Technology at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, majoring in Photography. Worked in Sao Joao and D.Maria II Portuguese National Theatres, RTP television, ‘Casa da Musica’. Full time assistant professor in theDepartment of Image Arts P.Porto | ESMAD.