Category: Curated Programs

Doc’s Kingdom 2024 – Ernst Karel

Welcome to Doc’s Kingdom!

ERNST KAREL works with sound, including electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, image-sound collaboration, and postproduction sound for nonfiction film and video, with an emphasis on observational cinema. He has worked alongside Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard, and has collaborated with artists and filmmakers such as Anocha Suwichakornpong, J.P. Sniadecki, Luke Fowler, Ben Rivers, and Hendl Mirra. As an improviser he has played and recorded with Fred Lonberg-Holm, Tim Daisy, Liz Payne and Aram Shelton among others, and with Kyle Bruckmann he forms the group EKG. Lately he works around the practice of actuality/location recording (or ‘fields [plural] recording’) and composing with those recordings, with recent projects also taking up archival location recordings. He has taught audio recording and composition through the Sensory Ethnography Lab, the Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn, and the Department of Film & Media, UC Berkeley. He is currently an affiliate of the Center for Ethnographic Media Arts at the University of Southern California.
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Doc’s Kingdom – Ways of Listening
International Seminar on Documentary Film
19-23 Nov 2024 | Odemira, Portugal
Registrations and more information here:

Doc’s Kingdom 2024: Odemira, 19-23 Nov.

Doc’s Kingdom 2024 – Matilde Meireles

Welcome to Doc’s Kingdom!

MATILDE MEIRELES is a sound artist and researcher who makes use of field recordings to compose site-oriented projects. Her work has a multi-sensorial, durational and multi-perspective critical approach to site, where Matilde investigates the potential of listening across spectrums and scales as ways to attune to various ecosystems and articulate plural experiences of the world. Some examples include the inner architectures of reeds and complex water ecologies, resonances in everyday objects, local neighbourhoods and the architecture of radio signals. Her upcoming new album on the Crónica label, entitled Loop. And Again. (2024), delves into the dynamics of magnetic fields, intricate wiring arrangements, and their interconnectedness with the shifts in the surrounding landscape. Her work is also presented regularly in the form of performances, installations, community-based projects and publications. She holds a PhD in Sonic Arts from SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music, Queen’s University Belfast.
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Doc’s Kingdom – Ways of Listening
International Seminar on Documentary Film
19-23 Nov 2024 | Odemira, Portugal
Registrations and more information here:

Doc’s Kingdom 2024: Odemira, 19-23 Nov.

Doc’s Kingdom 2024 – Trevor Mathison & Gary Stewart

Welcome to Doc’s Kingdom!

TREVOR MATHISON is an artist, composer, sound designer, and recordist. His sonic practice – centered on creating fractured, haunting aural landscapes and integrating existing music – has featured in over 30 award-winning films and installations. Trevor was a founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), where his sonic designs defined and situated the Collective’s audiovisual works. He has continued to work with some of his former collaborators from BAFC creating sound design for numerous documentaries and installations. With Anna Piva and Edward George, he formed the projects “Flow Motion” and “Hallucinator”, whose mutant techno dub featured on the leading record label Chain Reaction. In recent years Trevor has produce a series of artworks and album releases as part of the ongoing and iterative project “From Signal to Decay”.

GARY STEWART is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, moving image and computational creativity. His work examines social and political issues of identity, culture, and technology, through media art, experimental music, and research. Through the application of innovative technologies and practices, he is part of a global network of collaborators who are advocates for equality, climate justice and better health through the arts especially those from marginalised communities. Under the moniker of Bantu, Gary sets out to explore and bring fresh new perspectives and in particular to “Black Noise”.

As DUBMORPHOLOGY, Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart create installations and performances that incorporate elements of dub and musique concrète which functions as a binding agent for disparate visual material that is bound together by what might be dubbed “post-soul noise”.
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Doc’s Kingdom – Ways of Listening
International Seminar on Documentary Film
19-23 Nov 2024 | Odemira, Portugal
Registrations and more information here:

Doc’s Kingdom 2024: Odemira, 19-23 Nov.

Doc’s Kingdom 2024 – Trinh T. Minh-ha

We’re thrilled to announce the first name from the guest artists and filmmakers who will be joining us in Odemira in 2024!

TRINH T. MINH-HA is a writer, theorist, composer and filmmaker whose practice is mainly positioned within the fields of feminist and postcolonial studies. Born in Hanoi, she emigrated to the US during the Vietnam War, where she studied music composition, ethnomusicology and French literature. While teaching in Dakar, Senegal, she created her first film, Reassemblage (1982), which documents the lives of women in rural Senegal in a manner that she famously described as “speaking nearby” rather than “speaking about” the subjects she portrays. She has consistently challenged the traditional documentary format and has been deconstructing normative ways of looking at and listening to different cultures, whilst being dedicated to questioning totalising systems of knowledge and categories of identity. She considers each work to exist as a “boundary event,” eluding labels such as documentary, fiction or experimental film, instead positioning her work between these designations. Alongside audiovisual works, she has published numerous essays and books on cinema, cultural politics, feminism and the arts. She is Professor of Rhetoric and of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Doc’s Kingdom – Ways of Listening
International Seminar on Documentary Film
19-23 Nov 2024 | Odemira, Portugal
Registrations and more information here:

Doc’s Kingdom 2024: Odemira, 19-23 Nov.

Conversation with Victor Jara Collective

The Terror and the Time – Conversation with Victor Jara Collective – Courtisane Festival 2024 from Courtisane on Vimeo.

A conversation between the Victor Jara Collective and Stoffel Debuysere, after a screening of The Terror and the Time (GY, 1979).

Thursday 28 March, 2024
In the context of Courtisane festival 2024 and the project Thinking with Dub Cinema.

The terror is British colonialism in Guyana; the time is 1953, the year of the first elections under a provisional democratic constitution. Stylized scenes photographed throughout Georgetown accompany the poetry of Martin Carter to convey a sense of intense political reform against poverty, repression and silence. The film unfolds against the interna tional backdrop of the 50s: the growth of foreign economic and military interests in the Caribbean basin, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Mau Mau revolts in Kenya, the Cold War, and the U.S.’ covert wars against Cuba, Malaysia, Vietnam, Iran and Nigeria.

“In his forward to Poems of Resistance by his comrade and compatriot Martin Carter, the great Guyanese writer Eusi Kwayana, implies that poetry is criticism. This sense of criticism held and released in and before art animates The Terror and the Time. The film offers poetic practice, historical criticism, and critical historiography in a rehearsal of sound, image, ground, and aspiration… Rupert Roopnaraine, a key figure in the Victor Jara Collective, suggested that the product betrays the process so that the film’s unfinishedness is given in accord with anticolonial struggle. As he argues what is important is that the strug gle remains. And what remains is the unstill consistency of the cartman and the dark, glimpsed by and given in criticism, through the absolute dissolution of the poem and the poet, the filmmaker and the film.” (Stefano Harney and Fred Moten)