Teixeira is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Art Department. His research-based and interdisciplinary work involves video, installation, text and photography. Through performative and participatory structures, he examines notions of language, locational identity, exile and displacement, addressing the limits and overlapping of personal and socio-political territories, physical and psychological spaces.

A short description of the film explains: “Ten people share their feelings and stories of depression, their darkest moments and how they cope with it. These powerful psychological portraits are reinforced by a second moment when the interviewees enter a cathartic journey, through music they choose. In between video art and cinema, this experimental film defies conventional documentary language to look at the phenomenon of depression as a process of radical otherness, estrangement and exile from oneself, eliciting empathy from the viewer.

Teixeira will be recognized during an awards ceremony on May 3, and his film will be screened at the arts festival in Glasgow on May 5.

Learn more about the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival here.