
Ana Vaz
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1986-01-01 (39 years old)
Place of Birth
Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Ana Vaz
Biography
Ana Vaz (b. 1986, Brasília) is an artist and filmmaker whose films and other expanded works speculate upon the relationships between self and other, myth and history through a cosmology of signs, references and perspectives. Assemblages of found and shot materials, her films combine ethnography and speculation in exploring the frictions and fictions imprinted upon both cultivated and savage environments and their multiple inhabitants. A graduate from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Ana was also a member of SPEAP (SciencesPo School of Political Arts), a project conceived and directed by Bruno Latour. Recent screenings of her work include the New York Film Festival – Projections, TIFF Wavelenghts, CPH:DOX, Videobrasil, Courtisane, Cinéma du Réel and Lux Salon. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Kazuko Trust Award presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in recognition of artistic excellence and innovation in her moving-image work.
Ana is also a founding member of the collective "Coyote" along with Tristan Bera, Nuno da Luz, Elida Hoëg and Clémence Seurat, a cross-disciplinary group working in the fields of ecology, anthropology, ethnology and political science through an array of crosscutting platforms.
Her films are distributed by Light Cone
& the Canadian Filmmaker Distribution Centre.
Known For
Acting
(2021)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
as Herself
(2019)
(2012)
Entre Temps
as (voice)
(2008)
Crew
(2024)
It Is Night in America
Director, Sound, Editor
(2023)
Meteoro
Director, Sound Editor, Director of Photography, Editor
(2023)
El Espejo
Director
(2022)
The Tree
Director
(2021)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Sound Designer, Cinematography, Editor, Co-Producer, Director
(2020)
PSEUDOSPHYNX
Director
(2020)
Apiyemiyekî?
Director, Editor, Sound Designer, Director of Photography, Writer
(2018)
Dreaming In The Dark
Director
(2018)
Look Closely at the Mountains
Sound, Cinematography, Editor, Director
(2018)
Atomic Garden
Director
(2018)
Amazing Fantasy
Director
(2016)
There Is Land!
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Sound
(2016)
Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas
Director
(2015)
A Film, Reclaimed
Writer, Director
(2015)
Occidente
Director, Editor, Director of Photography
(2013)
The Age of Stone
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
(2012)
Entre Temps
Writer, Editor, Director
(2012)
Les Mains, Négatives
Director
(2008)
Sacris Pulso
Director