2022 – present
Current Position: Associated Researcher and Research Assistant at XDN / Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen.
Part of the european project Surviving SOGICE (2024-2028) – UiB
I am currently researching digital narratives, immersive media (XR), and technological mediation in creative practices. My interests also include creative practices as platforms for social education, mediation, coexistence, and care.
2026 (on going)
digital
non-fiction / interactive /ethnography
Det første halvannet året (The First Year and a Half) is an ongoing multimodal autoethnographic project exploring migration, late-diagnosed neurodivergence, queerness, grief, and solitude through the lens of arrival in Bergen, Norway. Working across painting, photography, audio composition, poetic text, and scholarly annotation, it assembles fragments of daily life into a patchwork of situated knowledge. A living field digital notebook rather than a finished work, drawing on patchwork autoethnography, sensory ethnography, critical autism studies, disability studies and care theory.
2023
360º / VR
non-fiction / immersive /animation / social education
“Her Name Was Gisberta” is a documentary (VR/2D) that portrays the life and death of Gisberta Salce, a Brazilian Trans woman murdered by 14 young men in the city of Porto (Portugal) in 2006. Uniting the knowledge provided by Virtual Reality Perspective-Taking Tasks, this project was created as a tool of education, social intervention and activism against transphobia.
Festival’s Selection and Awards can be found in the About section.
Director: Sérgio Galvão Roxo
Writers: Pedro Velho and Sérgio Galvão Roxo
Animator: Sérgio Galvão Roxo
Illustrator: Pedro Velho
Narration: Alexia Vitória
Music: Pedro Velho
Sound: Sérgio Galvão Roxo
Produced by corpo-paisagem
2018
short-film
non-fiction / ethnographic film
29 26 is an audiovisual recording of the thoughts and feelings of two sixteen-year-old and two nineteen-year-old girls, who in monologues reveal their concerns and ideas about the life they’ll lead in ten years. The director underscores their speech with stylized and realistic images of themselves, acquired under varying circumstances and on different materials, thus creating an original work of art connecting elements of multiple artistic areas that are close to the author. Long shots of the protagonists’ faces, captured in great detail, are highlighted with expressive illumination and interleaved with poetic, experimentally conceived passages.
29 26, tries to be an intimate and honest tribute/portrait about growing up, creating a new space, between performance and film hoping to remember who we were one day.
“Portuguese director Pedro Velho will take part in the Jihlava IDFF this year with the film “29 26″ included in the Opus Bonum competition. The work deals with the ideas, emotions and expectations of four teenage girls. Stylized shots on the details of their faces, accompanied by authentic monologues, create a meditative atmosphere, and the viewer has a soothing yet active attitude. Sincerity from the protagonists’ utterances completes the atmosphere of friendly encounter and openness to the audience” – Matúš Slamka, 2018
Festival’s Selection can be found in the About section.
Director: Pedro Velho
Co-created with Ada Borga, Josefine Winkler, Mariana Alves Canas and Sara Braz Ferreira
Photography: Ada Borga and Pedro Velho
Editing: Pedro Velho and Sérgio Galvão Roxo
Sound: Sérgio de Jesus
2008-2018
photography / visual art
non-fiction
Over the years, I have used my camera as a tool
to engage with people, creating maps and visual
narratives of affection and understanding, both
for myself and others.
“The Intimate Longing” (2008 – 2018)
“Courage, trying to keep me Awake” (2017)
“It’s not about them anymore” (2011 – 2014)
“Not Theatre” (2008-2012)
Photo Festivals and Exhibitions
2018 | Other theatricalities – Da Luz Collective – Galeria FOCO
2017 | Fiebre Photobook Madrid – Dummies Selection
2017 | Flâneur – New Urban Narratives – Dummies Exhibition
2017 | Lisbon’s 8th Photobook Fair – Dummies Exhibition
