“ANA VAZ: 2024 EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL IN SEOUL, INDI-VISUAL” poster image ©MMCA
The
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) presents “ANA VAZ:
2024 EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL IN SEOUL, INDI-VISUAL” through August
24, at MMCA Seoul, Film and Video.
Experimental
Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS) in 2024 presents Brazilian filmmaking
artist Ana Vaz as part of the Indi-Visual section, which spotlights active
contemporary filmmakers and video artists. Following last year's featured
artist, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, this year's Indi-Visual presents a total of
15 films by Ana Vaz, ranging from her early to recent works. While some of her
films have been shown at domestic film festivals and research groups, this is
the first time that a large number of her works have been introduced to
audiences in Korea.
Ana Vaz
has made films in Brazil, Australia, and France, garnering attention from both
the film and art worlds with screenings, exhibitions, and lecture performances
at international film festivals and art museums around the world.
Ana Vaz
travels through time and space in the Americas, including Brazil, summoning the
various beings that once inhabited and lived there, now displaced. She observes
the various components of “Human and Nature,” such as nature destroyed by
humans and built into cities, humans once united with nature and others
separated from it, rocks and forests, mines and lakes, etc.
Screening
schedule of “ANA VAZ: 2024 EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL IN SEOUL,
INDI-VISUAL” ©MMCAAna Vaz does not distinguish between nature as a backdrop and humans as the central subjects, as modern Westerners do. In her works, places (settings), people, and events overlap and are organically connected. For example, in SACRIS PULSO (2008), Brasília, the modernists‘ utopian vision—a city born of human desire—is a place, a person, and an event. For Ana Vaz, film is a medium that reveals the historical issues of colonization and invasion in her native Brazil, as well as a medium that constitutes a new perspective on the climate crisis and the Anthropocene that humanity confronts.
