SALOMÉ LOPES COELHO

Short Bio

I am a scholar of film and art studies, researching at the intersection of aesthetics, cinema, and environmental humanities. I am currently a visiting professor and postdoctoral researcher at NOVA University Lisbon, where I lead the project "Rhuthmanalysis and Ecologies of the Moving Image," investigating rhythms of vegetal and inorganic matter in contemporary Latin American experimental cinema. I am also a research member of the Eco- and Bioart Lab at Linköping University, Sweden.

I hold a PhD in Artistic Studies—Art and Mediations from NOVA University Lisbon (2021), with the dissertation Vital Rhythm and the Gesture of Crossing: Survivals of Ekstasis in Cinema (FCT Fellowship), and an MA in Philosophy—Aesthetics. Previously, I was a visiting researcher at the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires (2016) and later lectured there on cinema, philosophy, and rhythm in the art (2018–2021). I serve on the editorial board of La Furia Umana – Journal of History and Theory of Cinema.

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More about my background​​​​​

Born in Oporto, Portugal, in 1983, I first studied Psychology and worked as a trainer and human resources consultant for 5 years. In 2009, I moved to Lisbon to coordinate a 4-year project on gender equality in schools, as well as the cultural programme of the Center for Cultural and Feminist Intervention. I simultaneously pursued Feminist Studies in Coimbra until 2011, when I began a Master's in Philosophy, specialising in the relationship between cinema and politics. Between September an December 2012, as part of my MA thesis, titled "Agnès Varda and Jacques Rancière in the Gap Between Cinema and Politics," I completed a research stay at Sorbonne University in Paris. During this time, I also attended Cinema Studies classes at Paris VII and began making videos, inspired by Rancière's 'emancipated spectator' approach and its questioning of the artist-spectator duality. In 2013, I was awarded an FCT scholarship to pursue a PhD in Artistic Studies at FCSH-NOVA University Lisbon, researching the role of rhythm and its analysis in the arts in relation to social organisation. I presented my PhD thesis in January 2021. As part of this research, I conducted fieldwork in the Andean region of Argentina and Bolivia and participated in projects at the National Arts University of Buenos Aires.