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Paroxysms: Movements, Relations, Montage

Susana Mouzinho

RESEARCH SEMINAR OPEN CLASSES
OCTOBER 28TH OF 2025, 2.30PM
ROOM 19 EP.2 – ESAD.CR

What is the potential performative efficacy of images and sounds when we speak of cinema labeled as political or experimental? Starting from the films of the Dziga Vertov Group—a brief yet productive collective animated primarily by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin—I will discuss the films of this and other collectives, considering their approaches, methodologies, transmissions, and translations. I propose to reflect on the artistic possibilities opened by the conceptual and procedural displacements of these cinemas, as well as on the resonances of this research in my own work.

Susana Mouzinho is an artist and lecturer, and one of the editors of Wrong Wrong, an online contemporary art magazine to which she is a regular contributor. She works with image and sound, both in analog and digital formats. She studied photography at Ar.Coand worked at the Photographic Archive of the Portuguese Cinematheque – Museum of Cinema. Her work has been presented at MNAC – Museum of Contemporary Art, Fuso Festival, Centro de Arte Oliva, Museum of Neo-Realism, Culturgest, and Demolden Video Project, among others. Her research focuses on the moving image, photography, and sound.