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.biz-ness as usual. Work & leisure pursuits from Justin Jaeckle

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Text, co-written with Joana Rafael, for Flash Art's Focus On series of city-specific reports. Flash Art, Issue 354 Vol.59, Spring 2026.

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DOCLISBOA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 15-26 October 2024, Various Venues, Lisbon

Selection Committee for Doclisboa International Film Festival. Film selection and programming, Q&As, presentations, texts, etc.

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QUANDO O TELEFONE TOCA 6 September - 26 October 2025, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto On the occasion of the iPhone's 18th birthday, and the brink of the 150 year anniversary of the granting of U.S. patent 174,465 to Alexander Graham Bell for "Improvements in Telegraphy", When the Phone Calls: a film programme conceived and constructed for Batalha Centro de Cinema by Justin Jaeckle, Diogo Costa Amarante and Inês Sapeta Dias. Full programme. Introductory text.

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Appointed Programmer, at Batalha Centro de Cinema – a cultural centre for film and the moving image, focused on cinema exhibition, research and discourse. Located in Porto, Portugal, Batalha's programme includes the presentation of contemporary practices in film, themed programmes, retrospectives and exhibitions.

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DOCLISBOA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 17-27 October 2024, Various Venues, Lisbon

Associate Programmer for Doclisboa International Film Festival. Film selection, shared artistic direction of programme, Q&As, presentations, texts, etc.

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HOMO URBANUS. A CITYMATOGRAPHIC ODYSSEY BY BEKA & LEMOINE 17 October 2024 - 20 April 2025, MAC/CCB, Lisbon

Curation, at the invitation of MAC/CCB, of the largest presentation to date of Bêka & Lemoine's extensive ongoing project, Homo Urbanus. An epic video installation of pure cinematic observation, gathering evidence from local laboratories of the great global experiment in how to live together, and framing the street as a grand stage where the actions of daily life are performed. Exhibition text and guide.

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INTERVIEW - Público

Contribution to Vasco Câmara's article, for the newspaper Público, "O regress de Salazar. O cinema portugues indigo sober a memória da revolucao." A reflection on political legacies within contemporary Portuguese cinema, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution.

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Essay, Of Home Movies and Green Years, in the book Passagens (Guilherme Blanc (Ed.), Batalha Centro do Cinema, 2024). Passagens deals transversally with concerns, affinities and speculations around the work of filmmakers João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora, through essays by Creuza Krahô, Jacques Lemière, Joana Pimenta, Justin Jaeckle, Paz Encina, Philippe Descola, Wellington Cançado and Renata Marquez. Book Launch at Batalha, Porto. Review (Público).

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TWO FACES HAVE I 29 January - 3 May 2024, Fidelidade Arte, Lisbon 8 June - 8 September 2024, Culturgest Porto

“When one likes something very much, or someone, it is hard to do anything but like it.” – Chris Langdon

“Long life to it [the vacuum cleaner] and to the society that wishes, like the cat, to lick itself clean.” – Pati Hill

Curated with Ampersand, as part of Territory, an exhibition cycle organised by Fidelidade Arte and Culturgest. MORE INFO EXHIBITION GUIDE AND TEXT (in PT and EN) Review at Artforum

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DOCUMENTARY ON THE MARCH: THE TURBULENT 30S IN NEW DEAL AMERICA 19-28 October, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon An exploration of the interface of socio-cinematic experiment with 1930s New Deal America, via a journey to the dawn of documentary, through 58 films divided into 24 programmes. Curated for Doclisboa International Film Festival, in partnership with Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema.  FULL PROGRAMME INTRODUCTION TO THE RETROSPECTIVE

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Juror, Best Feature Documentary, DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2023. 

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Preview Session: DOCUMENTARY ON THE MARCH: THE TURBULENT 30S IN NEW DEAL AMERICA 7 July 2023, 9:45pm, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon A screening of three films, on the rooftop of Cinemateca, to preview the forthcoming retrospective for the 21st edition of Doclisboa International Film Festival (19-29 October 2023), in collaboration with Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema. Further details to come… [Trailer by Petar Vukičević]

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Conversation with Giovanna Borasi (CCA), following a screening of work from CCA’s archive, for Arquiteturas Film Festival, 28 June, 21.15, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto.

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Programme consultancy for the 7th edition of Human Entities – a series of conversations exploring ‘culture in the age of artificial intelligence’, organised by CADA in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Featuring Mark Leckey, Manuel Arriaga + Pedro Magalhães, Orit Halpern, and Joanna Bryson.

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A guide to Ballardian Bathing, surfing the internet, and bridging the industrial revolutions of two centuries on Portugal’s coastline. Text, commissioned by Maat Extended, in response to photographer/video artist Nuno Cera’s two works Untitled (Flare) and Untitled (Pier), presented on the occasion of Cera’s exhibition Distant Lights at maat – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology. 

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AS MARAVILHAS DA NATUREZA 19-23 October 2022, Ampersand, Lisbon Co-organisation of a community of existential creatures, through an exhibition featuring works by Nancy Graves, Artur Varela and Gabriel Abrantes, at Ampersand.

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DOCLISBOA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 6-16 October 2022, Various Venues, Lisbon

Programmer for Doclisboa International Film Festival. Film selection (with a focus on International Competition), Q&As, presentations, texts, etc.