Ana Vaz
A idade da pedra - Film - 2013
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 15 - Le grand tour
Film
Ana Vaz is an artist and filmmaker born in Brazil’s 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 an instrument capable of transforming human perception, broadening connections with non-human or spectral forms of life. As a consequence or extension of her filmmaking, her artistic practice also encompasses writing, critical pedagogy, installations and collaborative projects. Her films have been screened worldwide, both at film festivals and in exhibition spaces. She is a winner of the Kazuko Trust Award (Film Society Lincoln Center) and the Robert E. Fulton Fellowship from Harvard University. Her films have won awards at Cinéma du réel (*Há Terra!*, 2016), Punto de Vista (*Apiyemiyekî?*, 2019), and Media City and Frontier (*Occidente*, 2014). Her works are held in the collections of the Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques), Kadist, Frac Bretagne and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. In 2024–25, she was a resident at the Villa Medici.
