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Thomas Allen Harris is the founder and President of Chimpanzee Productions, a company dedicated to producing unique audio-visual experiences that illuminate the Human Condition and the search for identity, family, and spirituality. Chimpanzee’s innovative and award-winning films have received critical acclaim at International film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, FESPACO, Outfest, Flaherty and Cape Town and have been broadcast on PBS, the Sundance Channel, ARTE, as well as CBC, Swedish broadcasting Network and New Zealand Television. In addition Mr. Harris’ video and installations have been featured at prestigious museums and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Biennial, Corcoran Gallery, Reina Sophia and London Institute of the Arts. A graduate of Harvard College, Mr. Harris is a recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including a United States Artist Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Fellowship, as well as CPB/PBS and Sundance Directors Fellowships.

Shot entirely on Super 8mm film, That’s My Face/É Minha Cara follows the spiritual journey of a black queer filmmaker (Harris) searching for the mythic face of Africa in legendary city of Salvador Da Bahia, Brazil..  This magical Odyssey moves between the filmmaker’s journey to the “African heart and soul of Brazil and home movies of the filmmaker’s family as they embraced black power in the 1960’s and moved to Tanzania, East Africa.  Crossing geographical and temporal boundaries, this evocative and compelling film was shot on three continents over the course of thirty years. 

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Joao Sibin  begun his career studying sculpture and ceramics in U.S. But living in Sao Paulo most of his life is where he first studied photography in 2007. His work has always a strong parallel between images and poetry, as he is also a writer. In 2002 he has published his acclaimed book ‘From Lisbon to Istambul, my way though an endless world”. In 2004 Joao lived and studied in Italy, where he stayed for two years. Recently, he is writing for a local newspaper in Sao Paulo and taking part of several exhibitions.

His exhibition “Passing by Soweto” is an adventure in South Africa, where he experienced to be a non-white in an overwhelmingly black neighborhood in Johannesburg. After visiting the Apartheid Museum and spending the day in the Soweto, what it felt to him like a Brazilian slum. And at this particular moment Joao had a strange and mixed feeling about feeling a complete foreigner on a place that has given Brazil so much of our multicultural aspects. Joao then, compared prejudice perspective from both countries and its distinctiveness in social exclusion.

“Passing by Soweto” is the result of my brief contact with the reality of people that still feel the presence of an invisible, unwanted wall.   Like many others, it still lies there.” Joao Sibin

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Curated by Alicia Bastos

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