Amidst the sound of water, the blowing wind and the rumbling of metal, two new works by Portuguese artist Priscila Fernandes emerge: Fanfare 2025 and There Are No Radical Futures. Born from a partnership between Batalha Centro de Cinema and Solar Galeria de Arte Cinemática, with support from Mondriaan Fonds, these works offer a critical, poetic, and musical take on the present, drawing on ideas of landscape, community, and eco-social crisis.

Fanfare 2025 revisits Bert Haanstra’s classic Fanfare (1958), contrasting the idealised image of the post-war period with the contemporary reality marked by ecological crisis, reactionary nostalgia and ideological polarisation. Once again, the action centres on a local philharmonic band, plagued by absurd rivalries and united only by a shared mission: to win the annual competition.

If Fanfare 2025 is a bittersweet comic fiction about a world on the brink of collapse, the work There Are No Radical Futures is based on records documenting the attempt to keep it together. This multi-channel video installation follows 19 militant fanfares from across Europe in their rehearsals and interventions, in which the musicians perform in protest against violence, inequality, the climate crisis, patriarchy, racism and fascism.

Screening followed by a conversation with Priscila Fernandes and Andrew Snyder (ethnomusicologist and author of fundamental studies on music as political resistance). Free entrance upon ticket pickup on the same day. Limited to two tickets per person.