Ana Vaz

Ana Vaz (1986, Brasília) is an artist and filmmaker born in the Brazilian Midwest, a region haunted by the ghosts buried beneath its modernist capital: Brasília. Her filmography challenges and questions cinema as an art of the (in)visible and as an instrument capable of dehumanizing humanity, broadening connections with non-human or spectral forms of life. As an extension or expansion of her filmmaking, her artistic activities also take the form of 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.