Personal Info
Birth date
-
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
Also known as
-Tânia Dinis
Biography
Since 2011, Tânia Dinis has developed a research and creation work about the intimacy, family archive, document, time-image-memory-dream correlation, and these specific works are inserted in the "Family Archive" series, which is in constant development and they crossed diverse perspectives and artistic expressions as the photography, performance art and cinematography. This research begins by the investigating and collecting images, personal or otherwise, as well as other devices: films, letters, slides, photographs, objects – and then they’ll be assembled in artistic experiments, reorganized, revisited and manipulated by the assembly, implementing collages and sound fragments, constructing small narratives in an exercise of confronting the image and sound, exploring the idea of image as an experience of the ephemerality of the time and memory, also using other registers of real image.
Filmography
Teresa
NYR
Overview:
Teresa evokes a memory. A memory as a place of resistance. A memory suspended in space and time. A place one can return to. The fragmented image of an intimate record. The impression of moments forgotten in time but ready to emerge from oblivion—moments that allow us to build a possible history: the history we want to see. – Tânia DinisCorrespondences
6.6
Overview:
Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a testimony of the profound friendship between the two poets, letters of longing and of desire to “fill years of distance with hours of conversation”. Through excerpts and verses, a dialog is established, revealing their divergent opinions but mostly their strong bond, and their efforts to preserve it until their last breaths.3x3D
4.7
Overview:
A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.The Amazed Spectator
6.2
Overview:
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?Mabata Bata
NYR
Overview:
Azarias is a young orphan shepherd, keeper of a herd of oxen, where the ox Mabata Bata stands out. The oxen will be the basis of the "lobolo" payment, a traditional dowry that his uncle Raul must pay for his own marriage. Azarias’ dream is to be a normal child, to go to school, gold that is supported by his grandmother. One day, when Azariah is in the pasture, Mabata Bata steps into a mine - the result of the civil war in the country - and explodes. The young man fears his uncle's reprisals and flees to the forest, taking with him the remaining oxen. The grandmother and uncle leave in their quest to rescue him and persuade him to return.Não São Favas, São Feijocas
NYR
Overview:
Generational conflict within people who live for the countryside, in the countryside. The director and her grandmother.The Scoundrel
NYR
Overview:
The story of a vigilante friar, zealous caretaker of goodness and order who, after suffering unrequited love for an engaged woman, becomes a terrifying villain in a quiet town.The Gravedigger
9
Overview:
Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where heads bounce, but you hear a song.Laura
NYR
Overview:
Laura is an essay film whose inception began from a project of research and collection of familial photographical archives. It departs from the exploration of the notion of images as bygone experiences in time which, from that timelessness, expand in space, thus creating small narrative moments.Checkpoint Sunset
NYR
Overview:
The West is not a primitive realm simply because the Sun sets there. But if it were primitive, an imaginary tribe could adopt the spell of Cinderella's shoe as a mating ritual. Indeed, the less often you are chosen, the more your hoped-for partner becomes a Messiah, a ghost of Prince Charming. In any case, if there isn’t such thing as a generalized cold war between male and female, there is at least a wall separating the mythic elements that define the genders: a kiss is a form of eternity as deceitful as that which brings together the Sun and sea.Surdine
7
Overview:
In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation to become stronger and try to get married again.Over El Cielo
NYR
Overview:
Your past already is the projection of your future. However, it was never more than a light in the sky.Ornament and Crime
5.7
Overview:
I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an equation: Its result cannot be manipulated By morals or ethics. In mathematics there is no place for beliefs Just as life and death Are a certain fate.Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real
NYR
Overview:
In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet. The film and an accompanying book formed his PhD thesis. But as so often with him, projects turn into obsessions – especially when there are masses of notions not pondered, thoughts not elaborated upon. And so KINORAMA - Beyond the Walls of Cinema was born, a stand-alone continuation of The Amazing Spectator that looks at cinema’s future in cyberspace and, accordingly, perhaps the end of its enslavement to figurative representation, the 'stupid sacred in narrative cinema' (to use a Pêra’ism), realism and artificiality in 3D cinema, and many other aspects.Love Is the Answer for the Lack of Argument
NYR
Overview:
It is not the landscape that changes. Every service station is a service station. What changes is being in movement.So Small, Looking All Grown Up
NYR
Overview:
This film combines fictional and documentary treatment and uses photographic archives, real images and the oral testimony of women from the regions of Trás-os-Montes, Beira, Alto and Baixo Minho who, between the 1940s and 1980s, came to Porto to work as domestic servants.Lethes
8
Overview:
There is a village in the mountain and a house in the village, where Ema repeats gestures and tasks: she takes care of her grandmother, walks, reads, waits. Until one day the cycle breaks: what happened in the mountain house?Acting
2025Daqui Houve Resistência (5 Episodes) as Unknown
2021Lethes as Unknown
2020Surdine as Mulher Jovem
2019O Toucador as Unknown
2019Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real as Unknown
2017Laura as Ela mesma
2016Correspondences as Unknown
2016The Amazed Spectator as Unknown
2015Ornament and Crime as Maria do Céu
2015Over El Cielo as Woman
20133x3D as Unknown
2013Checkpoint Sunset as Unknown
2012The Gravedigger as Unknown
2012Low Tide as Mãe
2012To the Wolf of Madragoa as Unknown
2012The Scoundrel as Letícia
2011Love Is the Answer for the Lack of Argument as Unknown
Directing
2024So Small, Looking All Grown Up ... Director
2018Armindo e a Câmara Escura ... Director
2017Laura ... Director
2017Teresa ... Director
2015Old Wives’ Tales ... Director
2013Não São Favas, São Feijocas ... Director
Production
2024So Small, Looking All Grown Up ... Producer
2018Armindo e a Câmara Escura ... Producer
2017Laura ... Researcher
2017Teresa ... Producer
2017Mabata Bata ... Casting
2015Old Wives’ Tales ... Producer
2013Não São Favas, São Feijocas ... Producer
2012Low Tide ... Casting Director
Writing
2024So Small, Looking All Grown Up ... Screenplay
2018Armindo e a Câmara Escura ... Screenplay
Editing
2018Armindo e a Câmara Escura ... Editor