Ana Vaz
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1986
- Place of birth
- Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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.
Movies with Ana Vaz
Movies directed by Ana Vaz
- The Age of Stone 2013 · ★ 5.4
- Occidente 2015 · ★ 6.3
- Apiyemiyekî? 2020 · ★ 5.0
- It Is Night in America 2024 · ★ 7.0
- PSEUDOSPHYNX 2020
- Dreaming In The Dark 2018
- Meteoro 2023
- El Espejo 2023
- The Tree 2022
- There Is Land! 2025
- Sacris Pulso 2008
- Les Mains, Négatives 2012
- Entre Temps 2012
- A Film, Reclaimed 2015
- Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas 2016
- Look Closely at the Mountains 2025
- Atomic Garden 2018
- Amazing Fantasy 2018
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 2021
- Fire Flower 2026