
1986, lives and works at Brasília, Brazil
Ana Vaz (1986, Brasília) is an artist and filmmaker. Her film-poems walk along territories and events haunted by the impacts of colonialism and their imprint on land, human and other-than-human forms of life. Expansions or consequences of her films, her practice may also be embodied in writing, critical pedagogy, installations, film programs or ephemeral events.
Her films were presented and discussed at film festivals, seminars and institutions such as the Berlinale Forum Expanded, New York Film Festival, TIFF Wavelengths, Cinéma du Réel, CPH: DOX, Flaherty Seminar, Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Jeu de Paume, LUX Moving Images, Courtisane, among others. Recent exhibitions of her work include: “Penumbra” at Complesso dell’Ospedaletto (Venice); “Il fait nuit en Amérique ” at Jeu de Paume (Paris, France); 36th Panorama of Brazilian Art “Sertão” at MAM (São Paulo), “Meta-Arquivo 1964-1985: Space for Listening and Reading Dictatorship Stories” at Sesc-Belenzinho (São Paulo), Profundidad de Campo no Matadero (Madrid, Spain) and “The Voyage Out” at LUX Moving Images (London). In 2015, she received the Kazuko Trust Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in recognition of the artistic excellence and innovation of her work in moving image. In 2019, she received support from the Sundance Documentary Film Fund to complete her first feature film. She is a member and founder of the collective COYOTE, along with Tristan Bera, Nuno da Luz, Elida Hoëg and Clémence Seurat, an interdisciplinary group that works in the fields of ecology and political science through experimental forms (conversations, drifts, publications, events and performances).
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