Sonia Andrade is part of the first generation of Brazilian video artists. Established in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 1970s, with multidisciplinary artist Anna Bella Geiger as their teacher, this group included Fernando Cocchiarale, Ivens Machado, Letícia Parente, and Paulo Herkenhoff. At that time, Brazil was controlled by a dictatorship—resources for artists were minimal, and there was a general lack of knowledge about the Super 8 format. Members of the group even shared a single Porta-Pak for the production of videos. It is important to note that a number of female artists in