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Memory
in motion.
A school. Many ways to make images.
Children holding cameras. Stories assembled from paper. An archive becoming available to new readers. This exhibition follows audiovisual education at EDEM, a school in Rio de Janeiro, through photographed press clippings, classroom images and a retrospective display.
Learning to make, learning to see.
A 1979 Jornal do Brasil feature by Antônio Moreno describes animation workshops led by Maria Tereza Paes Leme Freitas. Paper cutouts, articulated figures, drawing and Super-8 filmmaking connect visual expression with school subjects and collaborative work.
The exhibition brings together 67 photographs and 32 brief videos of the capture. Twenty-one documentary images and four decorative elements have been extracted, described and linked to their sources. Individual photographs have their own transcripts, including uncertainty markers where text is illegible or outside the frame.
Authorship matters.
In a 1985 report by Marina Vieira for the newspaper of UFF’s School of Communication, student Alexandre Cobra describes the pleasure of seeing a completed film and knowing he made it. The original record can be consulted in Portuguese alongside its photographed source.
An invitation to Paris.
Two 1986 clippings announce that 15-year-old Paola Ribeiro Barreto was invited to join a children’s film jury in Paris. They connect the invitation to her experience making films at school. These clippings document the announcement; on their own, they do not establish that the trip took place.
2025: students creating with generative AI.
The programme led by Clelio de Paula brought together first- and second-year high-school students. Its preserved portfolio identifies nine AI agents and twelve related digital outputs, including websites, games and a voice avatar. Nine outputs have local access copies; three survive here as historical links.
Teaching records from May, September and November trace prompt revision, bias analysis, knowledge sources and project development. Credits follow the student portfolio; later access copies are identified separately.
The present-day project.
Clelio de Paula’s work with EDEM combines field research, historical sources, interviews, design and critical use of generative AI. This exhibition connects that research to the school’s earlier practices of image-making. The connection is a curatorial reading: the sources retain their distinct dates, authors and contexts.
A written 2025 interview describes Clelio’s aim of helping students become more capable creators. It is separate from the brief capture videos, which are not historical oral interviews.
Ways to explore.
- Follow the exhibition through documents and images.
- Open the image gallery or the projection view.
- Search the catalogue, including full Portuguese transcripts.
- Read the continuous HTML edition.
- Download the illustrated publication in Portuguese.
Access and provenance.
The interface includes keyboard controls, image descriptions, text resizing, contrast options and reduced motion. The original files are preserved. Extracted images retain print texture, folds and marks; no historical image has been regenerated. Downloadable metadata records the source file, crop coordinates and checksums.
The English page is an overview. Historical transcripts remain in their original language. This project does not claim ownership of the historical photographs, press texts or student works it presents.