Film
Carlota Lagido
[Portugal]
Mina (Movie)/ March 2021
© Carlota Lagido
A year later, Mina continues to be feminist, continues to be a manifesto about and with women who have lived different times, experienced conflicts of inequality and gender violence specific to each era, each place, each ontology. Many of these women will not be present, but their ghostly auras will, through their thinking, their professional and artistic life paths.
Mina should have happened in March 2020, but everything has changed and our perception of the world, of intimacy and closeness as well. The questions arise: what to do now, how to do it, how to touch the other, how to take food from the plate with the same fork, with the same hand, how to embrace how to kiss, how to cry, how to spit, how to scream? We are 13, how do we scream now?
In 2021 again everything changed. This is the time we live in, but Mina is not stranded, it may seem that way, but it is not - Mina is old, yes, it comes from very far and crosses all times. Mina is not a piece, it is an energy, mutant, resistant, phantasmatic, it transforms into a thousand other things, a thousand other women, a thousand others, some milenar, secular, others today, other witches, all witches, some technological, others ecological, botanical, “forestry”. We are multiple, infinite, antagonistic, one, we come from the world of the ugly, we are brute, we are beautiful, violent, loving, we are millions of names, ghosts, daughters and granddaughters, great-granddaughters, great-grandchildren…
A year later, our new premier took place at my home, in my/our sacred land and we made a film.
Nota: Ticket - 3€
The film is available from 7 pm to midnight, on the day selected.
Carlota Lagido
Carlota Lagido worked with Meg Stuart, Joana Providencia, Rui Horta, Mark Haim in the early 1990s. Since then and for 20 years she danced in the most emblematic pieces of Francisco Camacho, highlighting Dom São Sebastião and Gust.
Her work as a choreographer and performer has multidisciplinary characteristics since it addresses themes related to identity issues and self-biographical contexts. Memorable are her plays - notforgetnotforgive, ro.ger, 50 toneladas and Jungle Red. Parallel to her activity as a dancer and choreographer she has been a costume designer and has worked with several contemporary choreographers and directors since 1988. She has a postgraduate degree in Scene Design from ESTC. And teaches choreographic creation and scene design laboratories. Still wishes to be a photographer, filmmaker and farmer.