A collective born in 1967, seemingly without intent.
They drift through the void of days with diversions, and every so often, leave behind fragments — observational documents, traces of time passing.
Miguel Filgueiras was born in Viana do Castelo in 1980. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from ESAD — Caldas da Rainha. In 2003, he won the Young Creators Portuguese award, and in 2005, his work became part of the PLMJ Foundation Art Collection. His debut film, Alto do Minho (2012), is a documentary portrait of identity, spectacle, and ethnography in the Minho region. It was screened at 18 international documentary festivals between 2012 and 2014, among them the renowned Margaret Mead Film Festival. That same year, he was invited to speak at TEDx Guimarães, as part of the European Capital of Culture program. In 2016, he returned to essay filmmaking at the invitation of the record label Lovers & Lollypops, with Rendufe, premiered at Porto/Post/Doc. In 2019, he directed Black Bombaim, within the Criatório programme by Porto City Council. The film won two international awards at alternative musical essay festivals in the USA and Sweden, being in the official selection of two important festivals in Portugal.
He lives and works in the city of Porto, where he works as a director for advertising agencies and art direction.
He lives and works in the city of Porto, where he works as a director for advertising agencies and art direction.
Daniel Maciel holds a PhD in Anthropology – Power, Resistance and Social Movements from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon. His research focuses on the uses and practices of culture, with a particular interest in rural contexts and processes of institutionalization. He collaborates with AO NORTE, where he has been developing projects of collection, cataloguing, and critical reflection around historical photographs found in personal albums. He is an Integrated Researcher at ID+, and a collaborating researcher at CRIA-UM and DIVERSITAS-USP.