The Museo Reina Sofía, Doclisboa and FIDMarseille announced October 20 the two successful recipients of 2026 Joaquim Jordà Residencies.
These are Andrea Bussmann for her project End of the Present, and Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko for Hôtel Homère.
The jury writes: “Both projects are intertwined in their focus on memory and technological mediation. Both projects use pre-existing material, such as surveillance and radio recordings, to explore how technology redefines our relationship with time and space. While Bussmann addresses the fragility of individual memory and familial distance through domestic video surveillance cameras and phone calls between mother and daughter,
Anoushahpour and Ferko’s project focuses on how myths and stories persist in the language of modern media through abandoned infrastructure and the latent traces of Homer’s Odyssey on the Tunisian island of Djerba, breaking down the geographical boundaries between East and West through fable.”
“In both cases, a specific location (a house and an abandoned hotel) become a stage where structural tensions manifest,” the jury continues. “Bussmann examines the fear, anxiety, and rising xenophobia among the white North American middle class, while Ferko and Anoushahpour use an abandoned hotel to address colonial history and contemporary displacement in imagined geographies through literature and enchantment. Both film proposals are exciting examples of how to approach research in contemporary cinema in a creative, artistic, and interdisciplinary manner.”
The annual residency programme is aimed at filmmakers and artists working in the field of essay film, experimental cinema, and all forms that make up contemporary non-fiction cinema. Eligible applicants are artists and filmmakers with established careers whose body of work includes a minimum of four films of any length, or two medium-length films, or two feature films, and whose works have been selected for international film festivals, museums, or contemporary art centres.
The residency is structured across three phases, encompassing research and development, production, and launch of the project, with activities taking place in Madrid, Marseille and Lisbon. The selected filmmakers will be invited to take part in FIDLab and Doclisboa. FIDLab is an international co-production platform held during FIDMarseille at the beginning of July, where projects are presented to potential funders and distributors.
Doclisboa provides the selected residents with relevant contacts among the international guests attending the festival, allowing them to connect with a global network of filmmakers, artists, and producers.
This year’s jury was composed of Tsveta Dobreva and Cyril Neyrat (FID Marseille), Hélder Beja and Cíntia Gil (DocLisboa), Elena Corrales and Chema González (Museo Reina Sofía).
