Author of the cinema and contemporary culture Portuguese blog “Ainda não começámos a pensar / We have yet to start thinking”, which includes several interviews in Portuguese with contemporary film directors, namely Nobuhiro Suwa, Christian Petzold (& Harun Farocki on their common work), Angela Schanelec, Maria Speth, and Alexander Voulgaris (in English); forthcoming: Lee Anne Schmitt, Frederick Wiseman, Jean-Claude Rousseau. Film programmer of “Vasulka retrospective”, “New Berlin School–A cinema of unease”, “Autopsy figures–Biopolitics in contemporary documentary”, “Cruelty after theatre–The films of Angela Schanelec”. A PhD candidate of ambiguity in modern cinema, cinephilia and contemporary philosophy at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Organized a biopolitics conference with Roberto Esposito and translated Giorgio Agamben’s “L’aperto. L’uomo e l’animale” (forthcoming). Research with Adrian Martin at Monash University, Melbourne, and Ismail Xavier at USP, Brazil. Essays and research include: “Autopsy ‘in vivo’: Biopolitical features regarding Wiseman’s ‘Primate’”, “The intrinsic autobiographical fixation of Bill Douglas’ trilogy”, “On left wing involuntarism in cinema”, “Cruelty after theatre. The films of Angela Schanelec” (forthcoming: ‘Rouge’), “The pink period. On cinema’s high modernism” (Cinemateca Portuguesa), “On (the dangers of) actively forgetting (the tradition of) film criticism”. Recent conference presentations: “Birth of electronic space” (Cinéma & Art Contemporain 3, Paris Summer School), “The animal as a cinematic problem” (Screen Studies Conference 2010, Glasgow), “To Have Done with the Possible: Involuntarism as the Other (Necessary) Side to Biopolitics” (Deleuze Studies III, Amsterdam), “The reach of a thoughtful cinephile pedagogy” (in the panel “The Exile of Reality: On Hartmut Bitomsky’s Films on Film”, org. André Dias, Film-Philosophy III, Warwick), “On Political Relevance” (in the panel “On the Irreducibility of Visibilities to Statements: Documentary Approaches to the Audiovisual Archive”, org. André Dias, Visible Evidence XVII, Istanbul).