Rita Macedo
Rita Macedo lives and works in Berlin. Her practice takes moving image as its point of departure, understanding film as a privileged site of both artistic and research-based production. In Macedo’s work, cinematic, textual, and spatial means are differentiated in order to make their everyday entanglements tangible and fundamentally rework the relations between them. Her practice is therefore concerned above all with questions of perception, the production of subjectivity and its limits, and the forms of death it takes. Macedo investigates the infrastructures through which subjectivities become livable and legible.
Her work has been shown internationally at film festivals and in exhibitions since 2010, most recently at IndieLisboa (Lisbon, 2025), the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, 2023), Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (2024), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2023), and Kasseler Kunstverein (2024). In 2023, she also received the Grand Prize of the German Competition at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg.
Interim Professor of the Foundation Class Film/Video at the Braunschweig University of Arts
PhD Candidate in the Binational Artistic PhD Program at the University of the Arts Bremen
Film programmer for the International Selection of European Media Art Festival (EMAF)
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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