May 2026 in Sende Portugal
Low-tech cinema making camping
5 days to explore the tools and processes of situated cinema while camping in the bird forest.
We will use what we find around us to tell stories and make short movies. Convert spaces into darkrooms and screening spaces. Develop ecologically with analog cameras. Turn fishermen nets into a cinema canvas. Celebrate desirable futures through storytelling.
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Xiyao Chen is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, landless landworker and researcher based in London. Her practice is driven in response to the imminent climate emergencies, across the expanded field of anthropology, moving images, sonic sculptures and agroecology. She is a lecturer in ecology, art and design at the University of the Arts in London and the Royal College of Art in London.
Hadriana Casla is a filmmaker and communicator, based in Madrid. Her work focuses on creating and coordinating collaborative narratives that align with the needs of the territory and community, stories that emerge from the awareness of our ability to narrate ourselves. Hadri is part of GRIGRI collective.
María Rodriguez Gradin is a social educator and artisan and co-founder of Sende. María leads educational programs and seminars in Sende and before that she was working as an organiser of youth camps for children and in the prison educational programs in Argentina. Interested in crafts, colours and world cuisine.
Edo Sadikovic, co-founder of Sende. Living in a daily contrast between countryside and the innovative futures. Edo is all about making staff and building spaces to gather creatives and thinkers around the fire to build together. Educator, interested in conflicts, maps, and borders.
