A Nebulosa 1.0

Fabiano was born in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1995. His parents, both Portuguese, allowed him to grow up in both countries until 2003, when they settled permanently in Switzerland. After completing his primary studies and a technical apprenticeship, he works in different fields, to which he adds the intense emotion of cinema in his spare time. He studies self-taught through reading and watching films. Between the end of 2021 and 2022, he attended the course “A Nebulosa” with the members of Rua Escura and, with the help of the whole group, made the short film “Entonation of a Space” (selected for the Laterale film festival 2023). In 2022 he worked on the editing of the film “Pátio do Carrasco” and in the continuity department on the film “Sob a Chama da Candeia”, both by André Gil Mata.

Cláudia Gomes, born in 1995, lives and works in Porto (Portugal). She currently works as a casting director and producer at Agente A Norte and, in parallel, works as an actress, puppeteer and director. In 2021, she co-directed her first stopmotion short film “Nata Desta Vida”.

She is developing a number of projects as a creator, including her research project – a human-scale puppet manipulated by wires, and a documentary short film. She graduated from ESMAE in 2016 with a degree in Theatre – Acting. During this period, and with the support of the Erasmus+ program, she studied abroad for a semester, attending the Arts Academy – Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland, where she acquired knowledge about puppets, enabling part of her current research and work.

Rodrigo Carneiro Queirós is a visual artist and founder of Galeria/Atelier Caldeiras. His artistic work exists at the confluence of countless influences and techniques, revolving around reproduction, the ready-made, classic themes adapted to the contemporary, unfolding in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, engraving and cinema. He is currently carrying out doctoral research at FBAUP.

Maria Inês Rodrigues was born in Porto in 1994. She excels in the fields of image and directing. Her first short-film is O único dia que não repetimos, developed during an artistic residency. maior idade is her most recent film. She has worked with established international directors such as Albert Serra and Joaquim Sapinho. Sapinho was also his master’s advisor at the Escola de Cinema, which he completed in 2021. She was assistant camera on André Gil Mata’s Pátio do Carrasco (2023) and cinematographer on Diego Zon’s O Som do Trovão, which is awaiting distribution.

An observer, critic and creator, he graduated in Sound and Image from the UCP School of Arts in 2006 and since then has had a long career linked to image, photography and video that began with coordinating video projects at the Associação Nexes Interculturals (Barcelona). In 2006, he was part of the theatrical creation nucleus of CTB – Companhia de Teatro de Braga as a sound designer, videographer and technical operator for various plays. In 2012 he joined Porto Canal as a video editor for programs, advertising and promotions, where he still works today. At the same time, he started directing/filming videos for artistic and corporate purposes. Between 2021 and 2022, he directed and filmed several short independent artistic films and music videos, including “Sereias – Dinheiro”, which was selected for the 2022 Curtas de Vila do Conde Festival. In terms of training, also in 2022, he completed the course “A Nebulosa”, a 16mm film course by Rua Escura with the presentation of the short film “O Amor é isso” in a joint session at Cinema Trindade (Porto). In 2023 he took part in the artistic residency Plano Frontal at MDOC – Melgaço Documentary Festival, directing and filming the short “Cabo do Mundo”, a documentary currently in post-production that will be premiered at MDOC 2024.

He is co-founder of the Gmurda collective, which has been developing its artistic practice around video and performance since 2012. In 2014 he took part in the artistic residency Som e Ruína, with the Gmurda collective, in the south and center of Portugal. In 2019 she took part in the Catchupa Factuary artistic residency in Cape Verde. In 2020 he attended the Master in artistic photography at the Instituto de Produção cultural e Imagem, Porto.
In 2021 she took part in the artistic residency “From a Distance Calling” at Hangar, Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon. In 2022, he attended the 16mm cinema initiation course, taught by the cultural cooperative Rua Escura, Porto. Her most recent work includes her participation in the group exhibitions “Unearting Memories” – Porto 2019 / “Portrait Show” – Johannesburg 2020 / “Family Maters” – Maputo 2020 / “Dissident Planets” online exhibition 2020 / “Trabalho Nenhum” Porto 2021 / “Our (Spatial) Stories Live In Performative Futures” – Lisbon 2022 / “Íntimo a político: um avatar coletivo” – InterStruct Collective – Porto 2022 / “Drifts and Creatures – New acquisitions from the Municipal Art Collection” – Porto 2023.

He was born in Melgaço (1989) where he grew up between the parishes of Cristóval and Vila. A psychiatrist, he began his medical training in Porto, where he now lives and works, but on his way he has been to Bragança, Évora, Faro, Príncipe Island and Paris. His fascination with cinema, human behavior and stories from oral tradition led him to the film course “A Nebulosa” (Rua Escura), where he made his first short film, “Tanganhom”.

I’m Ana, I studied General Studies and Fine Arts at Universidade de Lisboa, where I had the opportunity to take a very versatile path and study a little bit of everything that interests me: from astrophysics, to Arabic language, drawing and philosophy. I then went on to study cinema (moving image) at Ar.co. I directed a school film “Do birds fly at night?
night?” I also took part in the MDOC festival and made others more amateur films with friends. I did a 16mm course where I shot on film at night in Porto about insomnia, the night in the city, and wandering around a place that was both familiar and strange at the same time. I work with the clay and sometimes I paint. I’m currently starting a band.

CLÁUDIA RIBEIRO (b. 1990) was born in Guimarães and lives in Porto. She has a degree in Cinema (University of Beira Interior) and a Master’s in Anthropology in Visual Cultures (2018, UNL-FCSH). She works on concepts of culture and identity, driven by a constant questioning of human behavior, memory, representation and the concept of reality. “THE LIFE WE KNOW” is her first feature film, shown and awarded at various festivals. He has made two short films in an academic context and currently has two other short films in post-production. She is a member of the production company RUA ESCURA, together with André Gil Mata and Frederico Lobo, and is currently in pre-production on her new feature film “ALLER-RETOUR”.