RAQUEL SCHEFER
// film-maker and academic researcher
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Webdesign @ Ana Schefer 2009
Film-maker and academic researcher.
2008-2010: PHD Candidate in Cinematographic Studies, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (thesis supervised by Prof. Philippe Dubois).
2008: Video Art Course promoted by Gulbenkian Foundation’s Creation and Creativity Programme.
2006-2007: Specialization in Video and Digital Technologies, Mecad (Media Centre d’Arte i Disseny de la Escuela Superior de Diseño), ESDI, Barcelona.
2004-2006: Master in Documentary Cinema, Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires. Thesis: Figures / Machines / Images: Contemporary Documentary and Self-portrait’s Formal Strategies (directed by Prof. Jorge La Ferla).
2003: Monographic Course of Screenplay for Cinema and Television (ECAM, Escuela de Cine y Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid).
1998-2003: Degree in Communication Studies, with Specialization in Cultural Communication and Cinema, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon.
2010: “Migrations: cinema and television”, article published in the collection of presentations "Extended Cinema": le cinema gagne du terrain,eds. Philippe Dubois, Frédéric Monvoisin, Elena Biserma, Campanotto Editore.
2010: “Equador, diário de viagem a partir da obra homónima de Henri
Michaux” (“Ecuador, a Travel Journey from the Homonym Work by Henri
Michaux”), article published in the “Textos e Pretextos” magazine,
edited by the Center for Comparative Studies of the Faculdade de
Letras (College of Liberal Arts) of the University of Lisbon (edition
Lisbon/ CEC and Livro do Dia).
2008: Book “El Autorretrato en el Documental” (“Self-Portrait in Documentary”), Buenos Aires, Ediciones Universidad del Cine, Colecção Teses e Teoria do Cinema, Catálogos, 216 pages (revised edition of my MA in Documentary Cinema thesis).
2008: “I click, therefore I think. Jour après jour, a film by Jean-Daniel Pollet, directed by Jean-Paul Fargier”, 2008. Article published in “Las Prácticas Mediáticas Predigitales y Postanalógicas” (The Pre-digital and Post-analogical Mediatic Practices), the MEACVAD 2008 catalogue (Euro-american exhibition of Cinema, Video and Digital Art), Buenos Aires, French Institut, Fundación Telefónica, Goethe Institut.
2008: “Meta-memory. O Tempo não Recuperado, by Lucas Bambozzi”, 2008 Article published in “Las prácticas mediáticas predigitales y postanalógicas” (The pre-digital and post-analogical practices), the MEACVAD 2008 (Euro-american exhibition of Cinema, Video and Digital Art), Buenos Aires, French Institut, Fundación Telefónica, Goethe Institut.
2008: “VI-DEO Memory. Autobiographies, Self-referentiality and Self-portraits, 2008” Article published in the anthology “Historia Critica del Vídeo Argentino” (Critical History of Argentine Video), Buenos Aires, Malba and Fundación Telefónica.
2007: “A New Mission for Documentary. La Dernière Utopie, by Jean-Louis Comolli” Article published in “Artes y Medios Audiovisuales. Un Estado de Situación” (Arts and Audiovisual Media. A state of affairs), the MEACVAD 2007 catalogue (Euro-american exhibition of Cinema, Video and Digital Art), Buenos Aires, French Institut, Fundación Telefónica, Goethe Institut.
2010: «Space, time and archive in Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s installation “Where is where”?», Panel “Film & History Ways of Seeing History in Experimental Media”, in « The National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Annual Conference », organized by the University of Pittsburgh in St. Louis and moderated by Kristen Fallica.
2010: «Space, time and archive in Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s installation “Where is where”?», VIII MAGIS – International Film Studies Spring School, moderated by David Lieberman.
2009: “Migrations: cinema and television”, Summer School “Cinéma & Art Contemporain 2”, INHA, Paris (moderated by Françoise Parfait).
2010: Solo exhibition at Demolden Video Project Gallery, Santander, in June (opening on the 25th of June)
2009: Group exhibition “Mulheres à beira de um ataque de nervos”, Arte Contempo Gallery, Lisbon.
Group exhibition "LAV-Arts. Casa Abierta", Laboratorio de Artes Visuales, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2008: Group exhibition “El Globo de Juan”, Casa de los Jacintos, Madrid.
2007: Group exhibition “The Best of On the Road Video Festival”, Puebla, Mexico.
2010 screening of “Avó (Muidumbe)” / “Granny (Muidumbe)” at FIDMarseille.
2010 screening of “Avó (Muidumbe)” / “Granny (Muidumbe)” at FUSO festival, Lisbon.
2010 screening of “Avó (Muidumbe)” / “Granny (Muidumbe)” at New Filmmakers Summer Series, Anthology Film Archives, New York.
2010 screening of “Avó (Muidumbe)” / “Granny (Muidumbe)” at Marmara Triennial, Istanbul.
2010 screening of “Avó (Muidumbe)” / “Granny (Muidumbe)” at La Maison des Étudiants Belges et Luxembourgeois” during the III edition of the Summer School “Cinéma et Art Contemporain”.
2010 screening of “Avó (Muidumbe)” / “Granny (Muidumbe)” at Australian International Experimental Festival.
2010 screening of “Avó (Muidumbe)” / “Granny (Muidumbe)” in the programme “The Ghosts in the Eye. Experimental Documentaries”, hosted by Bianca Ahmadi and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy at the 92 Y, Tribeca, New York.
2009 “Extranjerías Mediáticas”, programmed by Jorge La Ferla for the exhibition “Extranjerías”, commissioned by Néstor García Canclini and Andrea Giunta at Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires.
“Lisbon Revisited”, programmed by Jorge Flores Velasco and Maria del Carmen Carrión,
El Pobre Diablo, Quito.
2009 LAV-Arts.Casa Abierta, Laboratorio de Artes Visuales, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2009 Vj for Varig, Nasty Diamonds' Party, Quito, Ecuador.
2008 Oslo Screen Festival, Oslo, Oslo Cinematheque.
Northern Wave Film Festival, Grundarfjördur, Iceland.
“Portugal Convida”, Casa de Portugal, Barcelona.
2007 Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin.
2007 V International Festival of Cine Pobre, Gibara, Cuba.
2007 Documento Internacional Exhibition of Cinema and Vídeo, La Paz, Bolivia.
2007 Diablo de Oro Festival, Oruro, Bolivia.
2007 Cine Eco Festival, Seia, Portugal (member of the Youth Jury).
2006 VIART Festival, Caracas, Venezuela.
2006 “On the Road Video Festival”, Lowell e Washington D.C.
2006 7º Festival of Cinema and Video FADU (College of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, Buenos Aires.
2005 “Qué hay de nuevo?” Festival, Buenos Aires.
2007-2008: Scriptwriter, Plot Production Company, Lisbon.
Collaborator of the documentary cinemaʼs magazine “docs.pt”, Lisbon.
2006: Assistant Professor of Prof. Jorge La Ferla and Prof. Gabriel Boschi, Master in Documentary Cinema, Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires.
2004: Video direction and production of the play “Corte y Confección”, Teatro Precário, Buenos Aires.
2002-2003: Internship in the newspaper “Público”, Lisbon.
2008: Research collaborator of the CIAC (Center for Research into Arts and Communication,
University of the Algarve, Portugal.
2010: Award for the best film at festival FUSO, Lisbon.
2010: PHD scholarship (Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT, Portugal).
2001-2002: Erasmus scholarship (Universidad Complutense, Madrid).