Chico Peres Smith

Biography

Chico Peres Smith is a filmmaker and media artist whose work interrogates the fragile boundaries between analog memory and digital decay. His practice—spanning experimental documentaries, lyrical shorts, and community-engaged cinema—examines how technologies mediate identity, migration, and collective memory.

Selected Works

Tomorrow Doesn’t Exist (2024)

A glitch-based interrogation of screen culture, structured as a triptych of decaying aspect ratios (9:16, 4:3, 16:9). The film’s handheld collage book becomes both subject and structural blueprint, questioning what survives when media erodes.

Fogo Frio (2024)

A haunting short film that traces the spectral edges of identity through contem...