Pat Janeiro is a poet, visual artist, and filmmaker living in Rotterdam, NL. Janeiro grew up in the 80s in Lisbon, PT, and has a Sociology and Fine Arts studies background. In their work, they use an interdisciplinary approach to explore the possibilities in-between text and film. They are interested in making connections between materials, cinema, and literary references to tell a story. Janeiro's works are also ways to observe and listen, step into different temporalities and reflexive processes, and engage in the world in an embodied way. The works are mostly improvised and experimental, rooted in lived experiences, and often developed through collaborative practices.
Someone else speaking from your throat - Two-channel video projection, HD and 16mm to HD, Colour, Sound, 11'21’’. Conversation between a painter and the filmmaker, focusing on the juxtaposition of a first-person narration about a painting with a filmic self-portrait. With Noa Bar Orian and Bernardo Zanotta. Painting: Klumpli/Standing Woman on a Bed, Noa Bar Orian. Other materials - Text: Identity Problems and Bird, Yona Wallach; Excerpt from Nightwood, Djuna Barnes. Screenings: Labyrinth Festival, WORM, Rotterdam, 2022; Visions du Réel, VdR Industry Film Market, Nyon, 2022
A Triad of Paper Horns - HD and 16mm to HD, BW, Colour, Sound, 5'. We are making a movie. My soundless voice guides you through notes of erotic dreams, rituals, storms, and gardens. There's no plot. If you close your eyes you will listen to the thread ~ the wind ~ and the sound of paper. A Triad of Paper Horns is a free exploration of transformations, sound, text, life, and film. The starting point of this work was the image of three handmade paper horns which had been used in art performances and are stored at DfbrL8r art gallery in Chicago. The film premiered in 2020 at Nightingale Cinema through DfbrL8r art gallery, thanks to Ieke Trinks. Other screenings: IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon, 2021, and Goethe Institut Sofia part of SAW Sofia Art Week, 2020.
Ghostly Manners - 16mm, Silent, BW, 1'10''. Inspired by the transformations of eels, Ghostly Manners is a soundless dive to the depth of wanting to be another. Screenings: Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, 2023; WORM, Rotterdam, 2019; Oberhausen Film Festival, 2018; Kinosaurus, Jakarta, 2017; Back to the Future: Project! Analogue and Sound Festival, WORM Filmwerkplaats 2017
Ambiguity is so beautiful - 16mm to HD, BW, Silent, 4'05''. A couple's bed frame, which is also a mousetrap, is dragged around in a park. A text message had been sent earlier that day, saying: 'The mousetrap will be the last thing we take from the apartment and we bring it to Treptower Park. You do your thing. This is about making live love an aesthetic practice. I'm quoting Tupitsyn but I am also interested in utopian gestures and in the difficulties of building life worlds and life bonds out of those moments. In the end, I agree, we leave it there.' Performance and sculpture by Rute Chaves. This film was screened in 2019 at WORM, Rotterdam.
