VIDEO WINDOW @ FUSO 2026 – Video Art Festival, 18th Edition, Lisbon
Wed 26 August 2026, 21:30, Museu da Marioneta
Destiny Brazil – Between Reality and the Imaginary. Reflections on Power, Identity and Spiritualism
Films by: Aline Motta, Camila Freitas & Janaina Wagner (BR)

After FUSO 2024, the video art platform VIDEO WINDOW presents at the festival in Lisbon another programme dedicated to Brazilian video art, ambiguously entitled Destiny Brazil, with one film each by Aline Motta, Camila Freitas and Janaina Wagner. The programme provides through the three works a fragmentary insight into life realities in Brazil, from Rio de Janeiro deep into the Amazon which are related to the country's colonial past. At the same time, it offers a comparison of different positions of mid-career female artists, distinguished by their unique voices and recognised both nationally and internationally.

FUSO 2026, 18th edition, 25–29 August 2026 (link)
Programme introduction E (pdf) / Introducão P (pdf)
Screening location, VIDEO WINDOW programme: Museu da Marioneta (link)
Synopses of the three videos in E (pdf) / Synopses in P (pdf)
Short biographies of the three artists in E (pdf) / Biografias in P (pdf)
Websites: Aline Motta, Camila Freitas, Janaina Wagner (links)

Screening programme (duration: 60 min.)

Aline Motta
(Outros) Fundamentos / (Other) Foundations, 2019
Video HD, single-channel, colour, sound, P/Yoruba/Tofin-Gbé/e, 16 min., 16:9
The artist embarks on a journey to Lagos in Nigeria and initiates a self-reflection about her roots and belonging, which oscillates between Africa and Brazil.

Camila Freitas
Aparição / Apparition, 2024
Video HD, single/two-channel, colour & b/w, sound, P/e, 20 min., 16:9
Camila Freitas offers an intimate insight into the spiritual practices of Umbanda experienced by her grandmother.

Janaina Wagner
Curupira e a Máquina do Destino / Curupira and the Machine of the Destiny, 2021
Video HD, single-channel, colour & b/w, sound, P/e, 24 min., 16:9
The work takes the viewers to the middle of the Amazon on the legendary Trans-Amazonian Highway and leads them on the road to an imaginary encounter with Curupira, a mythological figure who protects the forest against external power.