Ana Vaz Movies

  • 2013
    The Age of Stone

    The Age of Stone

    The Age of Stone

    5.22013HD

    A voyage into the far west of Brazil leads us to a monumental structure - petrified at the centre of the savannah. Inspired by the epic construction...

    The Age of Stone
  • 2023
    Meteoro

    Meteoro

    Meteoro

    02023HD

    Meteoro
  • 2020
    Apiyemiyekî?

    Apiyemiyekî?

    Apiyemiyekî?

    4.62020HD

    Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the...

    Apiyemiyekî?
  • 2021
    Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

    Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

    Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

    02021HD

    Taking its title from the poem by Wallace Stevens, the film is composed of a series of attempts at looking and being looked at. Beginning as a city...

    Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
  • 2015
    Occidente

    Occidente

    Occidente

    7.12015HD

    In a spellbinding, textural blend of 16mm and HD video, Ana Vaz refracts the colonial history of Brazil and Portugal through objects, gestures, and...

    Occidente
  • 2024
    It Is Night in America

    It Is Night in America

    It Is Night in America

    52024HD

    In Brasília, the modern capital of Brazil, an anteater is found dead by the side of a road, a boa constrictor wanders across the suburbs, and...

    It Is Night in America
  • 2019
    Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

    Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

    Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

    02019HD

    Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s...

    Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
  • 2012
    Entre Temps

    Entre Temps

    Entre Temps

    02012HD

    A meditation and a reverie upon a city at once real and imagined. Conceptualized as a documentary on the ZUP buildings in France, the film has...

    Entre Temps
  • 2023
    El Espejo

    El Espejo

    El Espejo

    02023HD

    El Espejo
  • 2018
    Dreaming In The Dark

    Dreaming In The Dark

    Dreaming In The Dark

    02018HD

    For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform...

    Dreaming In The Dark
  • 2008
    Sacris Pulso

    Sacris Pulso

    Sacris Pulso

    02008HD

    Sacris Pulso departs from the dismemberment of another film, "Brasiliários". This film is an interpretation of Clarice Lispector's chronic...

    Sacris Pulso
  • 2022
    The Tree

    The Tree

    The Tree

    02022HD

    Made for Somewhere From Here to Heaven, exhibition at Askuna Zentroa, Bilbao.

    The Tree
  • 2016
    There Is Land!

    There Is Land!

    There Is Land!

    52016HD

    "Há terra! is an encounter, a hunt, a diachronic tale of looking and becoming. As in a game, as in a chase, the film errs between character...

    There Is Land!
  • 2018
    Amazing Fantasy

    Amazing Fantasy

    Amazing Fantasy

    02018HD

    Defying gravity, a game of levitation becomes at once the possibility of magic; or a translation of an irrepressible desire for mastery.

    Amazing Fantasy
  • 2020
    PSEUDOSPHYNX

    PSEUDOSPHYNX

    PSEUDOSPHYNX

    02020HD

    Pseudosphinx is the scientific name of the fire-caterpillars soon to become butterfies, or as they're commonly (and auspiciously) called: witches....

    PSEUDOSPHYNX
  • 2015
    A Film, Reclaimed

    A Film, Reclaimed

    A Film, Reclaimed

    02015HD

    The ecologic crisis is a political, economic and social crisis. It is also cinematographic, as cinema coincides historically and in a critical and...

    A Film, Reclaimed
  • 2018
    Atomic Garden

    Atomic Garden

    Atomic Garden

    02018HD

    Fields of newborn flowers, small gatherings of surviving bees, resistant plant species and new types of eggs lay upon our shore, engaging us to dig...

    Atomic Garden
  • 2018
    Look Closely at the Mountains

    Look Closely at the Mountains

    Look Closely at the Mountains

    82018HD

     “Look closely at the mountains!”: the phrase was coined by artist Manfredo de Souzanetto during Brazil’s years of...

    Look Closely at the Mountains
  • 2016
    Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas

    Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas

    Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas

    02016HD

    It is said that in the year of 1492, the first European ship led by Christopher Columbus, disembarked on the coast of Samaná, present-day...

    Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas
  • 2012
    Les Mains, Négatives

    Les Mains, Négatives

    Les Mains, Négatives

    02012HD

    A postcard, Saint-Ouen flea markets.

    Les Mains, Négatives