Ana Vaz

Ana Vaz (1986, Brazil) is an artist and filmmaker born in the Brazilian Midwest, inhabited by the ghosts buried by its modernist capital: Brasília. Her filmography provokes and questions cinema as an art of the (in)visible and an instrument capable of dehumanizing the human, expanding connections with other-than-human or spectral forms of life. As a consequence or expansion of his cinematography, his artistic activities are also embodied in writing, critical pedagogy, installations and collective walks.

Her residency project is devoted to writingANHNANGUERA, a script in the making for a trans(e)historical fiction that emerges from the history of colonization in the Brazilian Far West, Ana Vaz’s birthplace and the central axis of her entire filmography. The film begins with a wild interpretation of Paulo Bertran’s book Histoire de la Terre et de l’humain dans le plateau central , a historical kaleidoscope that interweaves geological, pre-modern and modern time. The archive of the Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, a Catholic congregation based in Rome and responsible for the evangelization of the country, is one of the guides for the writing of this cosmopolitical Western.