I am a word and also its echo

Set in Atlanta, "I am a word and also its echo" is a screen dance film directed and scored by Nuno Veiga in collaboration with and featuring Sue Schroeder. Inspired by the writings of Clarice Lispector, the film explores the fleeting nature of the present moment. Schroeder's performance, accompanied by Veiga's evocative score, captures the delicate balance and transient beauty of the now, reflecting the essence of life's impermanence.

Creators

Nuno Veiga

Nuno Veiga, born in Viseu, Portugal is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher whose practice includes sound art, acting, theater direction, video art, installations, teaching, and arts facilitation. Veiga has been working in professional arts contexts since 2001 and graduated in Theater Studies from the University of Évora in Portugal in 2006.
 
Moving to London in 2011, Veiga continued to work as an actor, audiovisual designer, and arts facilitator,

collaborating with various companies and institutions, including Rambert Dance Company’s The Playground,

Soho Theater, Knot Theory, Hide Tide, Spare Tire, Battersea Arts Center, Rare Salt and Edinburgh International Festival. As an arts facilitator, Veiga worked with community groups including at-risk youth, the elderly, and people with learning difficulties. As an Associate Artist at Spare Tire, Veiga developed several projects with voiceless communities.

In the last decade, Veiga has worked as a sound artist for dance, film, and installations with choreographers including Yola Pinto, Amélia Bentes, Silvia Pinto Ferreira, Romulus Neagu, Miguel Altunaga Verdecia, Jordan Bridge, Luca Bracia, Zjana Muraro, Darren Ellis, Susan Kempster, Anastasia Papaeleftheriadou, and Robert MacNeill.

In over 40 years of work in the arts, Sue Schroeder has created more than 110 original works at the intersection of movement/dance and visual art for theaters, museums, green spaces, architectural works, and water environments.  Her  work has appeared throughout the United States, as well as Mexico, Israel, France, Germany,  Poland, Georgia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Iceland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada,  Guatemala, and Hungary.  Her multidisciplinary vision has led to collaborations with major voices in dance, music, spoken word, visual arts and design.

Sue Schroeder

Additionally, she is recognized as a leading arts activist and mentor.  As a contemporary artist and dance maker, Sue focuses on the creative process, movement research, exploration, and dance-making as a catalyst for social change.