FILMS
Claudia's film work encompasses many different styles and genres. She often works in a film-essay style, using a low-budget, experimental and poetic approach to images and sounds. Her work includes documentaries, travelogues, experimental films, music videos, projections, and two awarded full-length feature films (fiction) released in cinemas and international film festivals [‘Nights’ won ‘The critic’s week award’ in 2000 at the Venice Film Festival and 'Us' won the Boccalino award in Locarno, 2003]. Since then, Claudia worked on other films, independently, including an engaged activist feature documentary about the housing crisis in London called Give us space (2012-2015), and a film-meditation called The soul journey (2016-2020), a very personal film about her own soul thresholds, the world's transitions and becoming an Earth Guardian.
While in Portugal, Claudia worked with film directors such as Paulo Rocha, Pedro Costa, José Alvaro de Morais, Paula Gaitan. For a few years, she wrote a monthly page for film magazine Premiere, called Atelier of Cinema. Claudia also taught film workshops in Lisbon. After the recognition of her fiction films, Claudia participated in the 8 months European Advanced Scriptwriting workshops, Script&Pitch in 2004, where she develloped a new film project called Mobile. To continue working on the script, she received the Gulbenkian Fellowship and spent one year as an artist in residency at Temple University in Philadelphia, US (2005-06) after an invite by professor Jeff Rush (author of Alternative scriptwritting). Upon returning to Portugal she couldn't find funding for the film and moved to London in 2007.
In London, Claudia has also worked as a freelancer and collaborated with a wide range of projects and people. She edited the awarded documentary Changing the world on vacation with activist filmmaker Daniela Kon. Claudia worked with eco-pionneer architect John Doggart for many years making short videos for a campaign on low carbon housing called SuperHomes. She taught film and editing at Victoria & Albert Museum, Space Studios, and other places, to children, youth and adults. Claudia also worked with musicians, record labels, theater companies, making short documentaries, creating live visuals & video projections for shows. She was part of the pre-selection committee of SIMA (Social Impact Media Award) founded by Daniela Kon, selecting activist documentaries from all over the world, for a socially engaged online platform.
Claudia continues to make her films independently, in an ethical way, usually without a crew, working on a small scale, in holistic ways, finding her own pace, in a feminine way, using meditation techniques for creating her crafted films, which become healing art, made as image-poems that unfolds through presencing the impermanence of Life and the beauty of Nature. In her most recent work, she creates 'essence-touching medicine' with images and sounds.
Some of Claudia's films are available on her Vimeo Page
Below are some highlights of her work, follow the links
Soul Journey
Fiction
Nature Meditations
Give us Space
Documentary
Live Visuals / VJ
