janilda bartolomeu.
As a filmmaker, artist and researcher, Janilda Bartolomeu engages with (post)colonial hauntings, collective memories and diasporic cinema across various contexts. The aforementioned subjects are largely envisioned through a speculative lens, that not only documents but also activates potentialities and tricks linear time and genre conventions.
On time, rememories, ghosts, death & 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.