Ana Vaz
A idade da pedra - Film - 2013
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 15
Film
Ana Vaz
Ana Vaz is an artist and filmmaker born in the Brazilian Midwest, a place haunted by the ghosts buried under its modernist capital: Brasília. Her films provoke and question cinema as an art of the (in)visible and an instrument capable of transforming human perception, broadeningconnectionswith**non-human or spectral forms of life. Her filmmaking is extended or results in other artistic activities such writing, critical pedagogy, installation and collective initiatives.
Her films have been shown around the world, both at film festivals and in exhibition venues.
She has been recipient of the Kazuko Trust Award (Film Society of Lincoln Center) and awarded the Robert E. Fulton Fellowship from Harvard University. Her films have been awarded at Cinéma du Réel (Há Terra!, 2016), at Punto de Vista (Apiyemiyekî?, 2019), at Media City and Frontier (Occidente, 2014). Her works are part of the collections of the Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques), Kadist, the Frac Bretagne and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. In 2024--25, she has been a resident at the Villa Medici.
