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Fellow
2024 - 2025
Cinema
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.
Each year, the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici organizes an international competition to select fellows who will be welcomed at the Villa Medici in Rome for a 12-month residency in creation, experimentation and research (residency begins in September, ends in August).