We’re thrilled to announce the collectives who are part of the programme on collective filmmaking, curated by Raquel Schefer and Rita Morais, for Doc’s Kingdom 2025:

CAMP

CAMP is a collaborative studio founded in Bombay in 2007 that produces film and video, electronic media, and public art forms, in a practice they characterise by a hand-dirtying, non-alienated relation to technology. A core part of their ethos comes from a located critique of documentary film and forms of address, and expands into methods engaging with archives, surveillance, subject awareness, and collectivity. One member of the collective will be present at Doc’s Kingdom.

GRUPO ZERO

Active in Portugal between 1976 and 1982, Grupo Zero emerged from the revolutionary Agrarian Reform in Alentejo. Conceived as a cooperative, their films reflect social change, literacy campaigns, and political transformation, while challenging conventional documentary forms. Two members of the collective will be present at Doc’s Kingdom.

MUJERES CREANDO

Mujeres Creando is an autonomous feminist-anarchist movement created in 1992 in La Paz, Bolivia. It carries out creative actions in the street—graffiti, which can be found in various cities in Bolivia, is one of the major forms. The members of the collective are women from different backgrounds who share a common perspective on creativity as an instrument of struggle and social participation. With the online participation of María Galindo, in charge of the audiovisual production of Mujeres Creando.

OGAWA PRODUCTIONS

Established in the late 1960s in Japan under Ogawa Shinsuke, Ogawa Pro is a landmark in post-war collective documentary practice. Their work spans student protests, participation in the popular struggle against the construction of Narita Airport, and later on life in the village of Magino, embodying radical forms of collaboration and filmmaking as a social experiment. A programme of films conceived in dialogue with Ricardo Matos Cabo, with a presentation of the curator in dialogue with Aikawa Yoichi.

SUELI AND ISAEL MAXAKALI WITH COLLABORATORS

Sueli and Isael Maxakali are a couple of filmmakers from the Tikmũ’ũn (Maxakali) people living in the Forest-School-Village in Minas Gerais (Brazil). Since the 2000s, they have been making films through collective processes with their communities, the yãmīyxop spirit-peoples, and several collaborators. Their film production is rooted in the struggle for territory, while developing their own aesthetic, shaped between the yãmĩyxop spirits, songs, rituals, and practices of caring for the land. One member and one collaborator will be present at Doc’s Kingdom.

VIDEO TRACTS FOR PALESTINE

“From November 2023, a group came together in response to the genocide in Gaza. More than fifty people, each more or less on their own, recorded short videos wherever they happened to be geographically, but always in the name of the group. We called it video tracts for Palestine. It is an old gesture, rooted in the famous ciné-tracts of the 1960s against the war in Vietnam and in the context of May 68. Video because the work is circulated and shared on social media, mainly Instagram. An immediate act, born out of urgency…” One member of the collective will be present at Doc’s Kingdom.

Furthermore, a special screening will open the programme to mark the celebration of the 25 years since the first edition of Doc’s Kingdom, introduced by José Manuel Costa, one of the founders of the seminar. 

More information about Doc’s Kingdom 2025: here