Pilvi Takala‘s work Real Snow White will be screened as part of the programme “This Is Not a Documentary” Retrospective at the 23rd edition of IndieLisboa. The programme is dedicated to the mockumentary—a genre that blurs the lines between fiction and reality. IndieLisboa takes place from April 30-May 10, 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal.

In Real Snow White (2009) the absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme rules of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Snow White is banned from entering the theme park dressed as Snow White.

Pilvi Takala (b. 1981) lives and works between Berlin and Helsinki. Her video works are based on performative interventions in which she researches specific communities in order to process social structures and question the normative rules and truths of our behaviour in different contexts. Her works show that it is often possible to learn about the implicit rules of a social situation only by its disruption. Her work has been shown in MoMA PS1 and New Museum, Kiasma, Palais de Tokyo, Kunsthalle Basel, Manifesta 11, Witte de With, and the 9th Istanbul Biennial. Takala won the Dutch Prix de Rome in 2011 and the Emdash Award and Finnish State Prize for Visual Arts in 2013.

IndieLisboa
April 30-May 10, 2026
Lisbon, Portugal

More information: IndieLisboa: Mockumentaries and Forgotten Gems