Ana Vaz Movies
- 2013
The Age of Stone
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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...
- 2023
Meteoro
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- 2020
Apiyemiyekî?
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Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the...
- 2021
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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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...
- 2015
Occidente
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In a spellbinding, textural blend of 16mm and HD video, Ana Vaz refracts the colonial history of Brazil and Portugal through objects, gestures, and...
- 2024
It Is Night in America
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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...
- 2019
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
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Based on Gertrude Stein’s eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Beatrice Gibson’s...
- 2012
Entre Temps
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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...
- 2023
El Espejo
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- 2018
Dreaming In The Dark
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For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform...
- 2008
Sacris Pulso
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Sacris Pulso departs from the dismemberment of another film, "Brasiliários". This film is an interpretation of Clarice Lispector's chronic...
- 2022
The Tree
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Made for Somewhere From Here to Heaven, exhibition at Askuna Zentroa, Bilbao.
- 2016
There Is Land!
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"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...
- 2018
Amazing Fantasy
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Defying gravity, a game of levitation becomes at once the possibility of magic; or a translation of an irrepressible desire for mastery.
- 2020
PSEUDOSPHYNX
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Pseudosphinx is the scientific name of the fire-caterpillars soon to become butterfies, or as they're commonly (and auspiciously) called: witches....
- 2015
A Film, Reclaimed
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The ecologic crisis is a political, economic and social crisis. It is also cinematographic, as cinema coincides historically and in a critical and...
- 2018
Atomic Garden
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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...
- 2018
Look Closely at the Mountains
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“Look closely at the mountains!”: the phrase was coined by artist Manfredo de Souzanetto during Brazil’s years of...
- 2016
Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas
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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...
- 2012
Les Mains, Négatives
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A postcard, Saint-Ouen flea markets.