Ana Vaz
Known for
Directing
Born
January 1, 1986 (age 40)
Birthplace
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...
Best known work
The Age of Stone
2013
Occidente
2015
Apiyemiyekî?
2020
It Is Night in America
2024
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
2021
Sacris Pulso
2008
Entre Temps
2012
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
2019
Fire Flower
2026
PSEUDOSPHYNX
2020Filmography
2026
Fire FlowerDirector, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography
2025
There Is Land!Director, Cinematography, Editor, Sound, Writer
2025
Look Closely at the MountainsEditor, Sound, Cinematography, Director, Writer
2024
It Is Night in AmericaDirector, Editor, Sound
2023
El EspejoDirector
2023
MeteoroDirector, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Editor
2022
The TreeDirector
2021
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbirdas Herself, Cinematography, Editor, Sound Designer, Co-Producer, Director
2020
PSEUDOSPHYNXDirector
2020
Apiyemiyekî?Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Sound Designer, Editor
2019
2018
Amazing FantasyDirector
2018
Atomic GardenDirector
2018
Dreaming In The DarkDirector
2016
Amérika: Bahia de las FlechasDirector
2015
OccidenteDirector, Editor, Director of Photography
2015
A Film, ReclaimedWriter, Director
2013
The Age of StoneDirector, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
2012
Entre Tempsas (voice), Writer, Editor, Director
2012
Les Mains, NégativesDirector
2008
Sacris PulsoDirector