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Susana de Sousa Dias

Susana de Sousa Dias

Susana de Sousa Dias was born in Lisbon in 1962. She completed a thesis in Aesthetics and Art Philosophy and holds University degrees both in Painting (Lisbon University) and Cinema (National School of Theatre and Cinema). She studied music at the National Conservatory of Music and is currently preparing a PhD in Aesthetics, Art Science and Technology (University Paris 8). Susana is presently working on a theoretical and practical research in the field of the relationships between Cinema and Contemporary Art with a special focus on archive. She is lecturer at Lisbon University of Fine Arts. In 2001 she founded the production company KINTOP. Her film Natureza Morta - Visages d'une dictature (2005) has been shown in Festivals and screenings in five continents, and won several awards (Prémio Atalanta Filmes at DocLisboa 2005, Merit Price at Taiwan International Documentary Festival, in 2006, Honorary Mention at the Slow Film Festival, Hungry in 2007). Obscure Light (documentary feature) and Natureza Morta - Stillleben (installation on three screens) are the works she is presently working on.

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Movies Made By Susana de Sousa Dias (6)

Fordlandia Malaise (2025)

Fordlandia Malaise is a film about the memory and the present of Fordlandia, the company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rain forest in 1928. His aim was to break the British rubber monopoly and produce this material in Brazil for his car producti ...

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Obscure Light (2017)

Mingling identity photos taken by the Portuguese political police during the Salazar dictatorship and testimonies from the children of an assassinated communist activist, Luz Obscura invents a form that recreates as faithfully as possible the feeling of a ...

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O Segredo das Pedras Vivas (2016)

In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, wants to build a luxurious solarium in lands filled with ancient rocks, places of devotion and sacred ritu ...

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48 (2010)

Based on photographs taken on the arrest of political prisoners during the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-1974), this documentary aims to convey the mechanisms by which a dictatorial regime sought to sustain its existence throughout 48 years. ...

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Criminal Case 141/53 (2000)

Two Portuguese nurses share their harrowing story. Sisters Isaura Borges Coelho and Hortênsia Campos Lima were arrested in the early 1950s for protesting a law that barred nurses from marrying. Salazar wanted nurses to live like nuns, in line with Catholi ...

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The Emissaries of Khalom (1988)

End of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the planet Khalom. From their experimental project, involving manipulating events in the past, two mysterious human creatures travel between the present ...

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Movies Starring Susana de Sousa Dias (2)

In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo (2016)

He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Macedo? ...

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Almada Negreiros Vivo, Hoje (1969)

The director and two writers and intellectuals interview the Artist in his atelier, and near some of his works, discussing its relations with his former poetic and philosophical works. ...

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