Reel Brazil: Mutinies in video art
27 June – 30 November 2025
Creatively directed by Nina Shen, and co-curated by Nina Shen & Solange Oliveira Farkas, ‘REEL BRAZIL- Mutinies in Video Art’ is a time-based media festival on Art and Resistance from Brazil & the UK.
REEL BRAZIL explores creative resistance and aesthetic experimentations in radical video art and experimental cinema, drawing cultural parallels between Brazil’s post-dictatorship era and the UK’s Thatcher years – featuring an extensive collection of works from Associação Cultural Videobrasil’s Historical Collection with highlights of new moving images works on the deceased artist/rights-activist, Keith Armstrong (part of the NDMAC Archive) from the UK.
REEL BRAZIL’s 5 seasonal programmes will be screened across multiple venues in Folkestone and online, featuring over 25 historic and contemporary works in video art, experimental cinema, and digital commissions by over 27 international artists.
REEL BRAZIL Season One: 27 June – 20 July 2025
What do you think people think brazil is?
Sandra Kogut, 1990, Brazil
Colourful electronic texts overlap stereotypical images of Brazil and testimonials of Brazilians and foreign tourists who answer to the question in the title of the work, What do you think people think Brazil is?
O espírito da TV
Vincent Carelli: Vídeo nas Aldeias, 1990, Brazil
A documentary made by the Vídeo nas Aldeias project, showing the reactions of the Waiãpi Indigenous people when seeing their own image and that of Gavião, Nhambiquara, Krahô, Guarani and Kaiapó Indigenous peoples on a television set.
Reencontro
Rafael França, 1984, Brazil
First part of a trilogy that investigates the narrative language of video – The experimental narrative language reflects the human post-modern condition and the complicated negotiations between emotion and modernity.
Homenagem a George Segal
Lenora de Barros, Walter Silveira, 1985, Brazil
A tribute to George Segal began as a photoperformance conducted in 1975 and became Lenora’s first videoperformance ten years later. It was inspired by the lonely, pathetic figures by the American sculptor.
Uakti
Eder Santos, 1978, Brazil
A cover version of Ravel’s Bolero, composed by Santos’ friends from the band Uakti. The band’s name in the language of Brazil’s Tucano people refers to a forest demon with holes in its body through which the wind whistles.
JOURNAL
A CATALOGUE OF IDEAS
HOW I DESIGNED THE DAM IN VENICE - #1
Vase 花瓶: Unseen and Unspeakable Existence...
The World In Folkestone
Sounds Of Solace
Public Art In Folkestone - Whats The Point?
‘Lingering Cut’: A Wake-Up Call
‘Can I ask your mum’s name?’
Against Flatness
Bend the Earth: AbsurdItIes of Everyday LIfe
SeeIng Red
Postcolonialism, nationalism and the search for the Feminine Image
Moving images by nina shen
Coming soon
TWF
This Week in Folkestone
Mini Doc #3
NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY
CT20 IS RECRUITING FOR A DIGITAL CAMPAIGN PRODUCER
Fee range: £7,500 (fixed fee for 6 months) for approx 12.5 hours per week (£25/hr), equivalent to £48,750 PA pro-rata, plus legitimate expenses, with the possibility of contract extensions. The is a freelance role.
Contract period: Jun – Nov 2025
CT20 is recruiting a Digital Campaign Producer to deliver an intensive, short-term (6 months) high impact marketing campaign around our new Artists Moving Image Project – ‘Reel Brazil’ (Jun-Nov 2025) – a season of artists’ films explores activism, contemporary socio-political issues around justice.
This social media role is more than putting out listings – it’s a call-out for a passionate individual in a campaign for change using experimental artists’ films as tool for activism that drives social justice. If that’s you, then download a Job Pack and please apply!
Deadline for Application: Mid-night Friday 09 May 2025
Click HERE to find out more about the role and how to apply!
We look forward to hearing from you.
WE ARE RECRUITING BOARD MEMBERS
CT20 IS LOOKING FOR NEW BOARD MEMBERS TO JOIN OUR OVERSIGHT AND ADVISORY BOARD (Non-Executive)
CT20 Projects is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation and we are looking to grow our new non-executive Oversight & Advisory Board by appointing a new permanent CHAIR as well as general BOARD members, who can play a key role in our organisation’s governance.
We are looking for people from all backgrounds who are passionate about the arts and its potential to change people’s lives to join our board. You will be instrumental in the development of our ambition, vision and policies and play an active role in shaping the future development of this ambitious and dynamic organisation.
The board convenes 4 times a year and this voluntary advisory role will probably take up to half a day of your time (max), once every 3 months, but you will be learning about the UK arts industry and be on an exciting journey with us!
Please get in touch with CT20’s director, Nina Shen by email: info@ct-20.org for more information and a detailed job description.