Desvelar | Anna Costa E Silva

Desvelar | Anna Costa E Silva

17 September 2025, 19:00 – 20:15 BST / 15:00 – 16:15 BRT

DASH Online & Remote

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Desvelar is a remote film screening and online Q&A session that serves as a prologue to DASH’s new central and cyclical public programme strand, ‘Disclosure’.

DASH and academic staff from Teesside University / Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, MIMA, are excited to be working with Brazilian artist Anna Costa E Silva following DASH’s collaboration with Delfina Foundation. As a filmmaker, Silva approaches the idea of madness in an intersectional way, using affection as a methodology. She facilitates space through film for people to ‘speak with their chest’ even when it’s tricky. In September, we are premiering three of her films for the first time in Britain: Ventário (2024), Please read it for me to rest in peace (2023), and Please read it for me to rest in peace – Choir (2024), the latter two directed with Nanda Félix.

The meaning of disclosure in Portuguese is propagation and revelation. Silva’s body of work is profoundly steeped in these two ideas, asking us to pause and think about what is shown and what is hidden. Exploring the materiality of silence, all three films examine how silences grow and affect us and how people are left with the things they haven’t spoken about.

What’s alive in you today? And what are you urging to come out?

For more detailed information, including timings, film synopses, access, and artist biographies, please download the document, Desvelar/Revealed.

Please get in touch with info@dasharts.org if you have any requests or questions about the event.

Image Description (1): Woman wearing a colourful multi-layered frilled dress and ballet shoes dances in an office space illuminated with strip lights

Image Description (2): A choir of women wearing neutral-toned clothes looks straight at the camera, as though they are looking directly at us. Some women are sitting, and some are standing.