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Open Class

Inês Sapeta Dias

OPEN CLASS
MARCH 21ST OF 2025, 10AM
AUDITORIUM OF EP1 – ESAD.CR

Open class with Inês Sapeta Dias (Lisbon, 1980), a programmer, researcher, and filmmaker in the field of cinema, focusing on her engagement with the notions of audiovisual archives and cultural heritage associated with amateur film. Since 2004, she has worked collaboratively with different authors, geographies, and institutions, exploring these themes.
The session will delve into her work in public programs for showcasing and organizing these materials—often on the verge of anonymity and disappearance—and her role as a creator. It will also feature the screening of Atlas de um Cinema Amador, a 13-episode project mapping cinema produced outside professional circuits, which she co-directed with Luísa Homem.

Inês Sapeta Dias (Lisbon, 1980) is a programmer, researcher, and filmmaker in the field of cinema. Holding a PhD in Communication Sciences, she has been curating film programs since 2004, first at the Filmoteca de Catalunya (Barcelona) and later at the Videoteca of the Lisbon Municipal Archive, where she recently led projects such as “Traça – Mostra de Filmes de Arquivos Familiares, Topografias Imaginárias” and “O que é o Arquivo?”. In 2011, she was granted carte blanche by the Portuguese Cinematheque to curate five sessions, and in 2012, she co-programmed a retrospective of Portuguese documentary cinema at the États Généraux du Film Documentaire in Lussas, France. In 2008, she completed her first film, “Retrato de Inverno de uma Paisagem Ardida (Winter Portrait of a Burnt Landscape”, 16mm, 40′), which received financial support from ICA/RTP and was screened at various national and international film festivals and showcases.