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Sofia Marques Ferreira works with film, performance, visual arts. Born in Lisbon, begins at Centro em Movimento her study of contemporary dance. Highlights the work with Didier Silhol on contact improvisation. Concludes photography at Ar.Co, Center for Art and Visual Communication. At University of Westminster, Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, London, supported by an UK scholarship, specializes in transmedia. The central theme of her work focus the link between body and time. Detaches film directing and scriptwriting with Peter Dukes, Andy Powell and Steve Brookes. Works for V&A Images and Pulse Films at Soho. Researcher at Center of Cultural Studies, Performing Arts and Audiovisual, University of Lisbon, regularly exhibits and collaborates with cultural organizations as Culturgest, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Teatro São Luiz, Centro Cultural de Belém, QUEER CINEMA International Festival, CUMPLICIDADES Contemporary Dance Festival, New York Video Art and Experimental Film Festival. "Memories of Ophelia's Body" was detached at FRAMES Festival (2013), Porto, DANÇA EM FOCO - International Video Dance Festival (2014), Brazil, and JUMPING FRAMES Festival (2014), China. In 2015 participates at FRAMES MEMORY Festival, Stockholm, with "Lisbon Revisited" and organizes POSTE//videoart exhibition with Extéril Foundation. At TEMPS D'IMAGES Festival exhibits "Lifecries", an exercise on moving image and the camera as an extension of the body.