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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.
YWY, the Android Isadora Neves Marques / Portugal 2017 / 7'40" / DCP / colour / Portuguese / Fic
YWY, an indigenous android, talks with a GMO corn crop in the agricultural interior of Brazil. In a moment of intimacy, the woman, who we come to understand is a field worker, and the plants talk about bodily rights, infertility, labour, and monocrops. As a human, the spectator is unable to hear the voice of the corn, perceiving the dialogue as a weird monologue. The film’s script is inspired by the writing of Brazilian author João Guimarães Rosa, in which dialogues are often expressed through the voice of a single person rather than two or more.
Shot in inner Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in a landscape transformed by the monoculture of mostly transgenic soy, maize, and sugar cane, the film follows the process of transforming soy crops into biodiesel, from the moment of harvest to the workflow of one of the main biodiesel processing factories in the region. A series of notes and reflections taken by the author are overlaid on the moving images. They ask: What kind of life lies in transgenic seeds? And what does it mean to live with the enemy?
A Mordida Isadora Neves Marques / Portugal/Brazil 2019 / 25'54" / DCP / colour / Portuguese / Fic
Between a house in the Atlantic Forest and a genetically modified mosquito factory near São Paulo, a polyamorous, non-binary relationship struggles to survive an epidemic spreading across Brazil. «A Mordida» is a film somewhere between horror, science fiction, and queer drama.
The Ovary Isadora Neves Marques / Portugal 2021 / 5'51" / DCP / colour / English / Fic
«The Ovary» is a short film narrating the attempts of a gay couple to reproduce biologically through an ovarian implant in a cis man. Imbued with an intimate and sensorial relation to images and accompanied by a cover of Lana Del Rey's pop song «Let Me Love You Like a Woman», the film is a raw and haunting approach to the online fan fiction genre Mpreg (a term for male pregnancy) and its tense, but also visionary, relation with surrogacy, privilege, and homonormativity.
In a natural disaster scenario, the entire population of the Azores is evacuated due to a plague of hydrangeas. Two young soldiers guide us to the sad stories of those forced to leave. The cinematic journey becomes a nostalgic and political reflection on territorial belonging and identity.
Isadora Neves Marques, born in 1984 in Lisbon, is a Portuguese artist, filmmaker, poet, and writer. Her work uniquely combines science, technology, ecology, gender, and queer identity. Until 2022, she worked under the name Pedro Neves Marques.
Isadora’s interdisciplinary practice moves between film, visual arts, and literature. In both poetic and analytical ways, she explores the effects of social, political, and biological systems on the human body and interpersonal relationships. In her artistic work, Neves Marques combines speculative fiction with documentary elements, drawing on strategies of science fiction to address contemporary questions around reproductive technologies, gender identity, biopolitics, or simply love and friendship. This is particularly evident in her films, which have been screened at numerous international festivals. In works such as «Exterminator Seed» or «The Bite», she addresses topics like genetic manipulation, virus outbreaks, and polyamorous relationships, continuously challenging normative ideas of gender, family, and intimacy. Her film «Becoming Male in the Middle Ages» explores reproductive desires in the context of queer identity, while «My Senses Are All I Have to Offer» tells of a biotechnology that allows people to experience the sensations of others – a fictional metaphor for empathy, transformation, and shared experience. Her films have been shown at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR, where she was awarded the Ammodo Tiger Short Award for best short film in 2022), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal, New York Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, and Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, among many others.
Neves Marques is also internationally recognized as a visual artist. She represented Portugal at the 59th Venice Biennale with her project «Vampires in Space», a speculative and political work that uses imaginaries of space sci-fi and vampires to reflect on transgender identity, mental health, and blockbuster cinema. Her works have been shown at major institutions such as Castello di Rivoli, Palais de Tokyo, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Kyoto City University of the Arts Gallery, among others. She repeatedly succeeds in translating scientific and technological content into sensuous, narratively dense installations that are both intellectually challenging and emotionally accessible. In addition, Isadora Neves Marques has also established herself as a writer. Together with artist Alice dos Reis, she founded the poetry press Pântano Books in 2020, dedicated to promoting contemporary poetry. Her written works include collections of poetry and short stories. The films «Our Lady Who Burns» by Alice dos Reis and «Flores» by Jorge Jácome – both close companions of Isadora and key figures in contemporary Portuguese cinema and visual art – are also featured in the programme.
Isadora’s multimedia work, which constantly oscillates between reality and fiction, body and technology, science and poetry, has received multiple awards, including the Present Future Art Prize at Artissima and a special award from the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize. Together with other artists, she runs the production company Foi Bonita a Festa and, between 2015 and 2020, she operated the online platform inhabitants, which focused on socio-political issues through documentary and experimental video works.
Isadora Neves Marques is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary art and film. Her works not only question existing power structures and normative systems but also open alternative perspectives on possible, more just futures. Her art is both analysis and empathy – a rare balance that she maintains with extraordinary sensitivity and intellectual precision.
The Present of Speculative Bodies
Isadora Neves Marques, born in 1984 in Lisbon, is a Portuguese artist, filmmaker, poet, and writer. Her work uniquely combines science, technology, ecology, gender, and queer identity. Until 2022, she worked under the name Pedro Neves Marques.
Isadora’s interdisciplinary practice moves between film, visual arts, and literature. In both poetic and analytical ways, she explores the effects of social, political, and biological systems on the human body and interpersonal relationships. In her artistic work, Neves Marques combines speculative fiction with documentary elements, drawing on strategies of science fiction to address contemporary questions around reproductive technologies, gender identity, biopolitics, or simply love and friendship. This is particularly evident in her films, which have been screened at numerous international festivals. In works such as «Exterminator Seed» or «The Bite», she addresses topics like genetic manipulation, virus outbreaks, and polyamorous relationships, continuously challenging normative ideas of gender, family, and intimacy. Her film «Becoming Male in the Middle Ages» explores reproductive desires in the context of queer identity, while «My Senses Are All I Have to Offer» tells of a biotechnology that allows people to experience the sensations of others – a fictional metaphor for empathy, transformation, and shared experience. Her films have been shown at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR, where she was awarded the Ammodo Tiger Short Award for best short film in 2022), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal, New York Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, and Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, among many others.
Neves Marques is also internationally recognized as a visual artist. She represented Portugal at the 59th Venice Biennale with her project «Vampires in Space», a speculative and political work that uses imaginaries of space sci-fi and vampires to reflect on transgender identity, mental health, and blockbuster cinema. Her works have been shown at major institutions such as Castello di Rivoli, Palais de Tokyo, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Kyoto City University of the Arts Gallery, among others. She repeatedly succeeds in translating scientific and technological content into sensuous, narratively dense installations that are both intellectually challenging and emotionally accessible. In addition, Isadora Neves Marques has also established herself as a writer. Together with artist Alice dos Reis, she founded the poetry press Pântano Books in 2020, dedicated to promoting contemporary poetry. Her written works include collections of poetry and short stories. The films «Our Lady Who Burns» by Alice dos Reis and «Flores» by Jorge Jácome – both close companions of Isadora and key figures in contemporary Portuguese cinema and visual art – are also featured in the programme.
Isadora’s multimedia work, which constantly oscillates between reality and fiction, body and technology, science and poetry, has received multiple awards, including the Present Future Art Prize at Artissima and a special award from the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize. Together with other artists, she runs the production company Foi Bonita a Festa and, between 2015 and 2020, she operated the online platform inhabitants, which focused on socio-political issues through documentary and experimental video works.
Isadora Neves Marques is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary art and film. Her works not only question existing power structures and normative systems but also open alternative perspectives on possible, more just futures. Her art is both analysis and empathy – a rare balance that she maintains with extraordinary sensitivity and intellectual precision.
Les Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur représentent le plus important festival de courts métrages en Suisse. Chaque mois de novembre, Winterthour se transforme en métropole du court métrage pendant six jours.
Des courts métrages actuels du monde entier. Les œuvres les plus prometteuses seront récompensées le dimanche soir.
Hors Concours
Des courts métrages actuels zurichois, suisses et internationaux diffusés en dehors de nos compétitions.
Focus
Une analyse en images d’une région, d’un phénomène social ou d’une tendance artistique.
Focus sur une personne
L’œuvre d’un·e cinéaste est mise sur le devant de la scène.
Programmes spéciaux
Des programmes de courts métrages sur des thématiques brûlantes, ou simplement divertissantes.
Programmes familiaux
Des courts métrages pour les jeunes dès 6 ans et toute la famille.
Expanded Cinema
Des installations, des performances et des expositions qui font découvrir au public des formes de cinéma inhabituelles.
Programme d’événements
Des concerts, des soirées, des lectures et de nombreux autres événements qui complètent l’expérience du festival.
Discussions et podiums
Des discussions et des tables rondes animées durant lesquelles l'art du cinéma ou des thématiques précises sont approfondis.
Industry Events
Un large éventail d’événements d’information, de formation et de réseautage.
Le court métrage
Le court métrage n’est pas juste un film «court». C’est une forme d’art à part entière à laquelle nous consacrons chaque année un festival.
Il existe des courts métrages de tous genres et de toutes longueurs. Grâce à des voies de production facilitées, il permet de capter rapidement une époque et de l’illustrer. Il divertit, surprend, analyse lasociété, exprime une opinion politique ou donne un aperçu de mondes étrangers.
Nous rassemblons nos courts métrages pour créer des programmes thématiques ou des sections – comme nos compétitions – et nous les projetons dans un ordre bien précis. Pour apprécier le court métrage, il suffit d’être curieux, d’avoir envie de faire des découvertes et de se laisser surprendre.
