Video, installation, animation

Here are some things that I made in university. They're not representative of what I do now, but there is some conenction and I like to have them here for archival purposes.

Spectral Electrical

A journey through invisible and inaudible layers of everyday reality to realize that nothing is ever quiet. Composition of ectromagnetic sounds (captured with a pick-up phone coil) of objects that can be found in a house (microwaves, ovens, computers, cellphones, TV sets, DVD players, computers, washing machines, etc.).

Experimental video by Catarina João, 2011.

Repointing Audition

Nothing looks the way it sounds. Nothing sounds the way it looks. - Christina Kubisch

The sounds captured belong to what is in frame but set in a different time of the day, the familiar sounds become uncanny in the deserted landscape and the video becomes an eerie portrait of a city lost in time, resembling a ghost town.

Experimental video by Catarina João and Adrianne Chardonnais, 2012.

Panopticon

There are infinitely more images than those we can see and this overdose of information hipnotizes and alienates from the world. In this installation, six television sets form a circle, the observer staying in the center. In these screens, a sequence of images of every kind (edited excerpts of cinema, tv, publicity, typically youtube videos) keeps getting faster ad faster. The observer trades places with what is observed and becomes prisioner of the images.

This video serves as a recording of the installation by Catarina João, 2011.

(This one is cute in retrospective. On one hand, I was definitely onto something. On the other, my version was very tame in comparison to what would be.)

Letting Marc Go

Short documentary following Marc Playle as he shows us his life with autism and learning disabilities, and his mother's acceptance of letting him move out.

Director: Jade Playle
Producer: Nigar Setihesh
Cinematographer: Natasha Saxby
Sound: Alison Cleland
Editors: Anna Vasilevska & Catarina João
Southampton Solent Productions. All Rights Reserved. 2012.

L'envol

While humans sleep, a love story unfolds between a wooden drawing doll and a matrioska. Unofficial videoclip to the song L’envol by Caravan Palace.

Digital video, pixilation and stop motion, by Catarina João and Carolina Aleixo. 2010.

A Study in Holmes

Montage of four different Sherlock Holmes adaptations for a hypothetical television marathon.

Made as an exercise for Solent Southampton University, all adaptations belong to their respective owners. Films used: Sherlock Holmes (2009, Guy Ritchie), Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall (2011, BBC TV series), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Dancing Men and The Solitary Cyclist (1984, Granada TV series) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002, David Attwood). Instrumental: Taiyou ga Ippai (Joe Hisaishi). 2012.

Voz, sempre a mesma // Voice, always the same

Traditional animation, charcoal on paper.

Short animation based on a poem:

Voice, always the same
Semi-open window
Fly feet

2011.