Rita Macedo
Filmmaker, artist, and film programmer based in Berlin. Rita’s work fluidly traverses non-fiction, speculative narratives, and narrative disruption, exploring the unstable terrains of meaning and memory. Through a practice that resists fixed interpretation, the work investigates the shifting relationships between image, perception, and time.
Her work has been shown at numerous exhibitions and festivals, including, European Media Art Festival, Berwick Film and Media Art Festival, Hamburg Short Film Festival, IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, New Horizons International Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, Encounters South Africa Documentary Film Festival, amongst others.
Artistic associate at Braunschweig University of Art since 2018.
Film programmer for the International Selection of European Media Art Festival (EMAF) since 2024.
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Implausible Things #1
Film • 11′ 45″ • sound (ST) • EN w/ EN subtitles • 2012
“Implausible Things #1” serves as an initial study for the later work “Implausible Things”, focusing on the compositional potential of found 16mm footage.
The piece assembles discrete image fragments using structural repetition, asynchronous sound, and text as spatial interruption. It functions as a testbed for sequencing strategies, tonal instability, and visual tempo. Many of the filmic devices first used here—looped motion, typographic layering, disjunction between audio and image—would later be developed into more elaborate configurations.
As such, the work stands both as a self-contained formal exercise and as a foundational sketch for the methods refined in the longer piece.
Written, directed and edited by Rita Macedo • Original soundtrack Yair Elazar Glotman, Rita Macedo • With the voices of Nigel Farrelly