janilda bartolomeu.
As an artist-filmmaker, curator and researcher, Janilda Bartolomeu typically communes with the ghosts of colonial pasts, partakes in collective learning & imaginations, as well as engages with diasporic cinema from across the globe. These subjects are often envisioned through an imaginative lens which not only documents, but also sparks new worlds. Look for her work on the crossroads between memory and future speculation. Let’s unlearn and break spells.
On time, ghosts, roots, routes & crossroads.
view previous projects.
- Na Caminhu Pa Acácia (2025)
- learning how to breathe (2025)
- in the belly (2025)
- islands traced, cities foreseen (2024)
- _when_scrolling_becomes_scrying (2023)
- Black Atlantic Visions (2023)
- Haunted (2021)
- If The Walls Could Speak (2020)
- The Criolo Lens: agua’d chor, agua’d mar (2018)
- evocations & lamentations (2016)
If The Walls Could Speak.
If The Walls Could Speak (2020)
Concept development.
If The Walls Could Speak (2020)
08:00 min.
EXHIBITION
YouthDem x G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy on
Raising Free Black Children
Nieuwe Instituut
21 August 2020
*EARLY WORK*
The short film If The Walls Could Speak (2020) was jointly conceived and produced by the YouthDem group of budding local creatives- which Rotterdam-based, futurist collective Concrete Blossom gathered and guided for this occasion. YouthDem member Janilda Bartolomeu, wrote and directed If The Walls Could Speak and wanted this project to offer a worldview ‘through her Creole lens’. Not confined by linear conceptions of time and space; this short, starring poet and co-writer Susu Aliy, depicts the tempestruous meeting between a young woman and her ancestor.