Isadora Neves Marques creates visions of the present and future, blending sci-fi, biopolitics, and intimacy. Her films explore reproduction, bodies, empathy, and power in a world shaped by technology. Moving between speculative fiction and artistic approaches to documentary, she examines queerness, relationships, and social utopias in ways that are radical, sensuous, and strikingly relevant.
Exterminator Seed
Isadora Neves Marques / Portugal/Brazil 2017 / 26' / DCP / colour / Portuguese / Fic
An oil spill contaminates the Brazilian coast. Capivara, an offshore oil rig worker, is evacuated back to Rio de Janeiro, where the locals remain ignorant of the incoming disaster. Despite the danger, Capivara wishes only to return to the offshore oil fields. In the city, he is aided by Ywy, a woman who convinces him to travel to her homeland of Mato Grosso do Sul, in search of work in the soy and corn monoculture plantations. There, Ywy tells him about the infertility of those transgenic plants and an android like her. But Capivara, a human, is incapable of understanding her.
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages
Isadora Neves Marques / Portugal 2022 / 21'55" / DCP / colour / Portuguese / Fic
Two couples in their mid-thirties. While Mirene and André struggle with their fertility, Vicente decides to undergo an experimental procedure, implanting an ovary in his body in the hopes of having a child with Carl. A tale about queer sexuality, bodily autonomy, reproductive desires, and the ghost of normativity.
Our Lady Who Burns
Alice dos Reis / Portugal 2023 / 8' / DCP / colour / English / Exp
Portugal’s Serra da Gardunha is a mountain known for the paranormal. Where before it was revered as a site of saintly apparitions, nowadays it is known for mysterious light sightings, with rumours of a UFO hangar hidden inside it. Atmospheric and dream-like, «Our Lady Who Burns» guides us through this mountain and an intergenerational lore of infatuations. In parallel, two friends lament the pregnancy of their old cat, speculating on whether the mystical energy of the mountain might be able to interrupt its gestation.
My Senses Are All I Have to Offer
Isadora Neves Marques / Portugal 2024 / 20'51" / DCP / colour / Portuguese / Fic
Lourdes and Lana met telepathically using «sensory pills», a technology that allows access to other people’s sensations from a distance. After months of their relationship, Lourdes decides to visit the country house of her parents, Vicente and Carl, and introduce them to her girlfriend. An unforeseen storm changes their weekend plans, locking them at home and, faced with the news of a child missing in the storm, Lana begins to question the limits of her telepathy.
