Director
Ana Vaz
40 years · Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil · 20 films
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 work include the New York Film Festival – Projections, TIFF Wavelenghts, CPH:DOX, Videobrasil, Courtisane, Cinéma du Réel and Lux Salon. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Kazuko Trust Award presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in recognition of artistic excellence and innovation in her moving-image work. Ana is also a founding member of the collective "Coyote" along with Tristan Bera, Nuno da Luz, Elida Hoëg and Clémence Seurat, a cross-disciplinary group working in the fields of ecology, anthropology, ethnology and political science through an array of crosscutting platforms. Her films are distributed by Light Cone & the Canadian Filmmaker Distribution Centre.
Best known for
Filmography 20
Fire Flower
2026 · Actor, Director
There Is Land!
2025 · Director, Editor
On DocAlliance Films
Look Closely at the Mountains
2025 · Editor, Director
On DocAlliance Films
It Is Night in America
2024 · Director, Editor
El Espejo
2023 · Director
The Tree
2022 · Director
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
2021 · Herself, Editor
On DocAlliance Films
PSEUDOSPHYNX
2020 · Director
Apiyemiyekî?
2020 · Director, Editor
On DocAlliance Films
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
2019 · Actor
Amazing Fantasy
2018 · Director
Atomic Garden
2018 · Director
Dreaming In The Dark
2018 · Director
Amérika: Bahia de las Flechas
2016 · Director
Occidente
2015 · Director, Editor
On DocAlliance Films
A Film, Reclaimed
2015 · Writer, Director
The Age of Stone
2013 · Director, Writer
Entre Temps
2012 · (voice), Writer
Les Mains, Négatives
2012 · Director
Sacris Pulso
2008 · Actor, Director
On DocAlliance Films