Pedro Serrazina

Pedro Serrazina is an award-winning director, senior lecturer and animation researcher. His first short, “Tale about the cat and the moon”, premiered internationally at the Cannes Film Festival ‘96 and, part of the Portuguese National Cinema Plan, is still regularly screened in international retrospectives and festivals. His work has been exhibited and published internationally, ranging from film, site-specific installations, to music videos and academic projects.

Serrazina is interested in the interconnections between architecture, public space, documentary and animation, and his practice-based PhD was dedicated to the use of animated space as a tool to reflect on social space.

He is currently co-writing a book on Portuguese Animation for Taylor and Francis, is a member of the editorial board of the “Animation Practice, Process and Production” journal, publishes regularly, and was editor of the IJFMA journal special editions “Animated Space: engaged animation for the space(s) we live in” and “Truth of Matter: process and perception in expanded animation practice”.

A member of the Society for Animation Studies and the Ecstatic Truth scientific board, Serrazina was the artistic director of the 45th edition of Cinanima Festival, and is currently working on his next film, a documentary feature entitled “What remains of us”.