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Ana Vaz

Ana Vaz

Director · Born 1986-01-01 · Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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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 o…

Directed

  1. The Age of Stone (2013) — Director
  2. Occidente (2015) — Director
  3. Apiyemiyekî? (2020) — Director
  4. It Is Night in America (2024) — Director
  5. PSEUDOSPHYNX (2020) — Director
  6. Dreaming In The Dark (2018) — Director
  7. Meteoro (2023) — Director
  8. El Espejo (2023) — Director
  9. The Tree (2022) — Director
  10. There Is Land! (2025) — Director
  11. Les Mains, Négatives (2012) — Director
  12. A Film, Reclaimed (2015) — Director
  13. Entre Temps (2012) — Director
  14. Sacris Pulso (2008) — Director
  15. Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas (2016) — Director
  16. Look Closely at the Mountains (2025) — Director
  17. Atomic Garden (2018) — Director
  18. Amazing Fantasy (2018) — Director
  19. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2021) — Director
  20. Fire Flower (2026) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2021) — Herself
  2. Entre Temps (2012) — (voice)
  3. Sacris Pulso (2008)
  4. Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (2019)
  5. Fire Flower (2026)