Salomé Lamas
Salomé Lamas is a Portuguese filmmaker, visual artist and educator. For the last fifteen years and with a steady production of more than thirty projects Salomé Lamas’ work has been contextualized in visual culture, artistic studies, and film studies, exhibited, and distributed internationally in the fields of cinema (movie theatres, festivals, VOD streaming) and contemporary art (galleries, museums, art fairs, biennials).
Description
Our first object of inquiry and care should be life. We know the reason for that, as we are living beings in a situation in which the conditions of life are endangered. What has no place in this ecological discourse is death. The fact that death is difficult to acknowledge is not new, but in our contemporary situation, death has a new face.
The project Gold and Ashes extends beyond representation to become an intimate act of excavation that proposes to mediate — materially, politically, and metaphysically — the reappropriation of death as a power and our sovereignty as mortal beings in the private and social spheres. At the same time, it speculates on the implications of representing trauma and the aesthetics of disappearance.
Direction: Salomé Lamas
Assistant director: Ângela Sequeira
Production: Lamaland, Primeira Idade
Additional support: Yaddo
Support: Fundación ‘la Caixa’, Dgartes – Direção Geral das Artes
Produced with materials collected during the production of Ouro e Cinza/Gold and Ashes (2025)
Production: O Som e a Fúria, Foi Bonita a Festa
Development support: Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell, FLAD – Fundação Luso Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Civitella Ranieri, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs — Northwestern University, Yaddo
Additional support: Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Film Commission, Fundación “la Caixa”
Support: ICA – Instituto do Cinema e Audiovisual, MEDIA – Europa Criativa, RTP – Radio Televisão Portuguesa, FILMA PORTO – Film Commission
With: Luísa Cruz, Margarida Vila-Nova
Script: Salomé Lamas, Isabel Ramos
Correspondence: Fréderic Neyrat
Consultants: Giovanbattista Tusa
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