Helena Gouveia Monteiro is an experimental filmmaker and visual artist from Portugal, currently living in Dublin. She manages Dubh Film Lab in Dublin, and is a member of L’Abominable/Navire Argo and Filmwerkplaats. Her new film Laoi Shuibhne|Sweeney’s Lay is currently in production with the support of the film project award from the Arts Council of Ireland.

At Belfast Film Festival, we are screening some of her recent works, showing the range of her analogue and digital experimentation and her ongoing interest in materiality and the sensory possibilities of film.

Screening programme:

• endsmeet, digital file from 16mm cameraless and super8 camera footage, b&w & colour, sound, 20min., 2025.
• SLINFLICKER Super8 and digital, b&w, sound, 5min., 2024
• Man of Aral, 16mm, colour, optical sound, 6:36 min, 2023 (16mm projection)
• Um Filme Pela Palestina, digital file from super8 colour negative, 3:30min., 2025
• Purkyně’s Dusk, Digital 2k from Super 8mm colour and toned and dyed b&w footage, silent, 9min., 2021
• Excerpts from Laoi Shuibhne|Sweeney’s Lay (in production), 16mm b&w tinted footage (16mm projection).