Luísa Sequeira / TEP

Rosas de Maio [Roses of May] is a rhizomatic creation resulting from research on New Portuguese Letters (1972; 1975), a work by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa. Rosas de Maio is based on this seminal work to dramaturgically weave a collection of new developments, creating a hybrid and polysemic show, a place of possibilities to articulate times and fragments, oscillating between the documentary and the performance. It is a constellation play that sets in motion the very materiality of the archive through expanded cinema, crossing and rescuing words and actions of women that throughout history had their speeches censored, torn and erased by the oppressive and patriarchal regime.


Luísa Sequeira is a director and curator of cinema. She works on different platforms such as video, film and photography exploring the intersections of cinema and emerging media. She has a specialization in documentary filmmaking and is doing her PhD in Media Art. She worked at RTP. She highlights Fotograma, a weekly Portuguese-language film magazine. Since 2010, she has been the artistic director of the Shortcutz Porto festival and the Super 9 Mobile Film Fest. Recently, she premiered her first documentary feature film, Quem é Bárbara Virgínia?, screened at several film festivals, such as the Rotterdam International Festival, the São Paulo Festival and Doclisboa, winner in the documentary category of the Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português. She directed and produced several short films, among them: Os Cravos e a Rocha, La Luna, Memória, Substantivo Feminino, My Choice. She has made several audiovisual installations for theater and exhibitions. She coordinated and directed Porto Sem Nó, winner of the Rio de Janeiro International Television Festival. She directed the documentary Mulheres no Palco for RTP. She co-directed, with Sama, an animated series on the Brasil channel. She was recently selected for the Meta Cultural Foundation creative residency in Romania. She is currently directing Nada a Temer with the artist Sama, about the current political and social situation in Brazil, and producing a documentary on Novas Cartas Portuguesas with Luísa Marinho and Ana Luísa Amaral.