RETROSPECTIVE: ADIRLEY QUEIRÓS & JOANA PIMENTA

Cineteca presents the first Spanish retrospective dedicated to Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta, an essential duo in contemporary cinema. For more than two decades, Queirós and Pimenta have created from the margins—geographical, social, and aesthetic—to rewrite the myths of the present.

Their cinema is made with and from the community, where formal invention is not an aesthetic whim but a political necessity. False memories, apocryphal archives, pirate radio stations, electoral jingles, women running clandestine refineries—these films summon bodies expelled from official history to imagine new forms of existence.

Their languages overlap: sound precedes image; science fiction merges with chronicle; dystopia becomes an act of imagining the future. Films such as White Out, Black In (Branco Sai, Preto Fica), Once There Was Brasília (Era Uma Vez Brasília), and Dry Ground Burning (Mato Seco em Chamas) condense a singular yet collective vision—cinema as a living counter-history, as a territory in dispute.

Shot in Ceilândia and Sol Nascente, conceived as artifacts of resistance and desire, their works compose a cartography of the impossible—where invention is inseparable from rootedness and struggle.