BIO
Video artist, Video and TV Director, Historian and Master in Visual Arts. He participated in the video art of the 70s alongside the artist José Roberto Aguilar. He made experimental videos: “Street child”, “Autistic children”, “Panamerica Symphony”, “Blind Oliveira, in his deserted sight”, “Gender, lies, and videotapes”, “Yara Bernette immersed in music”, “I never forgot”, “Juliet is Bárbara”, “Anthropophagic vision”, “Anathema”, “Naked air”, “What is no longer”, “Rite of wild love”, “Vamembolá” which won national awards and participated in international exhibitions such as The Kitchen (New York), Manifestation Internationale de Vídeo et Télévision (Montbeliárd), The Black Aesthetic (Washington), Tropical Experiments, Berkeley Art Museum, (Berkeley) Tropical Experiments - Recent Video from Brazil, Dallas Video Festival (Dallas), Proyector (Madrid). She was the curator of three projects to rescue Brazilian audiovisual works: “The Pioneers”, “The Devil's Eye”, “ José Agrippino de Paula Cycle”. She was the winner of the Vitae Grant, the Antorchas Artes Grant and the Transmedia Program Grant from Itaú Cultural. Instituto. She created video installations: "1st movement of the Overture of the Pan-American Symphony", "Babel", "Vertigo". She produced experimental series for TV: "Poetics of the invisible"; "Different jobs "; "Blah blah blah Agrippínico", "Poetry in Transit". She was the curator of the following projects: "Culture in Transit", "Núcleo" Exhibition, "Women on Stage", "Let's Talk about Video Art", " Video Art Club".
Art Scholarship
1994 • Vitae Foundation Scholarship
She was awarded with the project "Luminous Stories of the Backlands". Research and development of a script/documentary about images created by partially blind people.
1994 • Antorchas Foundation Grant (Argentina), Andes (Chile), Rockefeller Macarthur 1994
She was selected to participate in the Workshop "Seminar for Video Production", in Bariloche/Argentina, in collaboration with VITAE (Brazil)
2002 • Itaú Cultural Transmedia Program • Itaú Cultural
She is considered for the Transmedia Program, from Itaú Cultural, art and technology, with the project “The lonely ghost of the electronic basement devours the secret codes of the operating system like a twisted and imprecise spaghetti”.
Shows
V International Video and TV Manifestation Montbeliard
The Black Aesthetic (Washington)
Tropical Experiments, Berkeley Art Museum, (Berkeley)
Tropical Experiments – Recent Video from Brazil, Dallas Video Festival (Dallas)
Awards
1987 • Street Child
Best direction, Best editing at the V VideoBrasil Best editing at the X Jornada de Cine/Video Maranhão. The video is invited to the Mostra in Montbeliárd (France), New York, Washington, Cologne (Germany)
1989 • Autistic Children
Best documentary and best creation at the VII Videobrasil. Best Experimental Video at the III Cine/Video Competition in Teruel, Spain.
She was invited to participate in the V Manifestaction Internacionale de Video e TV Montbeliard as an Hors Concours. She won Best Experimental Video at the III Certamede Cine/Video in Teruel, Spain.
1988 • II Opening Movement of the Panamerican Symphony
Honorable mention at the 6th Santo André Video Festival
1994 • Luminous stories from the backlands
Vitae Arts Scholarship
1996 • Gender, lies and videotape
Awarded at the Latin American Educational Video Competition: Democracy and Citizenship, in Peru. Best Script at the 19th Guarnicê de Cine-Video, in São Luiz do Maranhão
1998 • Blind Oliveira, in his deserted sight
Canal 21/Sony Award at the 12th Videobrasil Festival. Pinhão Award for research and investigation of language at the 6th Curitiba Film and Video Festival.
2000 • A Place Called Home
Honorable mention at the Festival Contra el Silencio, all voices, Mexico.
2002 • The lonely ghost of the electronic basement devours the secret codes of the operating system like twisted, imprecise spaghetti.”
Contemplated for the Transmedia Program, from Itaú Cultural
2003 • Digital attack
Honorable mention at the 17th Brazilian Video Exhibition of Santo André.
2020 • Wild love rite
Best experimental film at the Jaraguá do Sul Film Festival.
2021 • Wild love rite
Honorable Mention at the 9th FriCine – International Socio-Environmental Film Festival.
Honorable Mention at the 9th FriCine – International Socio-Environmental Film Festival.
