Nuno Serrão

Photographer and Cinematographer

Photographer and Filmmaker

“Nuno Serrão is a Portuguese photographer, filmmaker, and creative director, interested in the dialogues between science and contemporary art. Each of his images considers how information is handled, shared and perceived, framing scenarios as micro-narratives, demonstrating a sensitivity and a curiosity for the planet and its inhabitants.” Kate Simpson, Aesthetica Magazine, 2019.

Hi, I’m a Portuguese photographer and filmmaker born in Madeira Island, 1980.
My blank slate starts with a functional level of emotion, logic, minimalism and curiosity. I consider these to be my metric system, in the way that photography is to cinema what poetry is to a novel, or that the If Then Else loop I learned from BASIC when I was a kid is a life shortcut.
Curiosity often leads me into document frameable micro-narratives that, in the end, will pose a whole new set of questions.
With the sum of all relatable questions, I think I’ll get an answer.

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Portrait

Selected exhibitions

Oneself Exhibition (group), Rome (6th – 16h March 2020)
Living Apart Exhibition (group), Rome (5th – 14th February 2020)
Rotterdam Photo Festival (group), Rotterdam (7 – 10 February, 2020)
World Press Photo Rotterdam (guest)(group), WTC Rotterdam (Jan 19th to Feb 10th, 2020)
Arts In Residency (solo), Madeira (2017, 2018)
Project Paperclip, Kernel Festival, (solo) Milan (2013)
Project Paperclip, Madatac Festival, (solo) Madrid (2013)
Project Paperclip, Augmented Reality Event, (solo) San Francisco (2012)
Project Paperclip, Casa das Mudas, (solo) Madeira (2012)

Selected screenings

We are all on the same bus (short film):
LA Experimental Film Festival – Official Selection (Regal Cinemas, Los Angeles, June 4th, 2020)
Austin Dance Festival – Official Selection (Ventures Studio Theater, Austin, April 3rd, 2020)
Tiny Dance Film Festival – Official Selection (Little Roxie Theater, San Francisco, March 28th, 2020)
Brussels Independent Film Festival – Official Selection (Cinema Galeries, Brussels, Feb 14th, 2020)
Greensboro Dance Film Festival – Official Selection (HQ Greensboro, Feb 13th, 2020)
Phoenix Dance Film Festival – Official Selection (Pollack Tempe Cinemas, Phoenix, Feb 1st, 2020)
International Microfilm Festival – Official Selection (Sala Esquis, Madrid, Jan 25th, 2020)
InShadow Festival – Awarded Best Portuguese Film (Teatro do Bairro, Lisbon, 2019)
ARRF Berlin – Official Selection (Berlin, 2019)
IMARP – Mostra Internacional de Dança – Official Selection (São Paulo, 2019)
Prémios Lusófonos – Silver Award, (Lisbon, 2019)

Selected publications, essays and features

“Micro-Narratives” (Aesthetica Magazine, 2019); “In Between” (The Photographic Journal, 2019); Interview (Hippo Magazine, 2019); “Selection” (Fisheyemagazine, 2019); “Folk Tales” (Cultura Colectiva, 2019); “Under The Storm” (Boom Saloon Magazine nº4, 2019); “Name of the week” (Neim Design, 2019); “Inland” (Osso Magazine, 2019); “Perspectiva e Circunstância” (Translocal Magazine nº1, 2019); “Inland” (Dodho, 2018); “Confronting Existentialism” (Plain, 2018); “Finding Beauty in simplicity” (C-Heads Magazine, 2018); “Inland Iceland” (Featured on Booooooom, 2018); “Unique Travel Photography” (Inspiration Grid, 2018); “The Truth is Out There” (This Isn’t Happiness, 2018); “Driving on an Unknown Road” (ETC Zine, 2018); “Inland Iceland” (L’Œil de la Photographie, 2018); “Inland Morocco” (This Isn’t Happiness, 2018); “Inland Morocco” (Photomag, 2018); “Inland Madeira” (Mâché, 2018); “Inland Morocco” (Mâché, 2018); “Under a Storm” (Mâché, 2018); “Morrocos minimal” (Fugas, 2018); “Perseids” Huffington Post (2015); Sic Notícias (2015); Público (2015); RTP (2015); TSF (2015); Focus.it (2015); The Weather Network (2015); “Perseids” (P3, 2013); The Creators Project/Vice (2012); Page Magazine (2012); The Next Web (2012); Mashable (2012); Read Write Web (2012); “O Natal é um estacionamento deserto” (Público, 2012)