ADRIANA VILA GUEVARA

(Caracas 1981) is a Venezuelan artist, filmmaker and anthropologist living in Catalunya-Spain . Her film work moves in the realms of non-fiction, experimental filmmaking, influenced by a reflexive, intuitive and responsible relation with the world and the self.

Her film pieces embrace the materiality and immateriality of film combining analogue-photochemical and video formats, as single-channel, film performance, and installation. Interested in the intersection between poetics and politics, and how cinema can explore and transform states of conscience, as a useful stimulation for the times we are living and the times to come.

Doctor and Master’s degree in Anthropology (Universidad de Barcelona), she has developed her artistic work creating a deep relation between anthropological questioning and experimental cinema, both as phenomenological practices. Co-founder of the independent analog film lab Crater-Lab, where she curated more than 30 film programs (2014-2020), other than national and international workshops and artist residencies. During the past decade she has devoted to developing and sharing DIY processes in analogue filmmaking.

She has collaborated with national and international universities, film and art institutions, passionately teaching non-fiction film and experimental photochemical laboratory practices, as well as other approaches to anthropology and ethnographic methodologies for the arts.

She has screened her work at relevant festivals and art centers, in Europe, North America and Latin America, such as IFFR Rotterdam Film Festival, Oberhausen IFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival, International Video art festival LOOP, Museo de Bellas Artes Caracas, La Pedrera (Gaudi), FID Marseille, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Microscope Gallery NY, Crossroads SF MoMa, among other (see screenings).

Currently she is working on her second feature film, as well as the design and founding of “Semilla-Lab”: a multidisciplinary coop, focused on developing social environmental -embodied- consciousness, through regenerative cultures. Embracing the intersection between art, science, technology and spirituality, one of the residency and pedagogic branches of “Semilla-Lab” will include an eco-sustainable analog film lab, dedicated to natural non-toxic and alternative development processes (made with plants from its own community vegie-garden). An inspiring and creative multipolar space, located in the powerful mountain of Montseny-Catalunya.

SELECTED ADRIANA VILA GUEVARA Interviews

_{Siroco Magazine (cine, memoria, huella) ES

Cinemattic (in site into experimental film work “Intertropical vision” & “Back then”) ENG

Cinemateca de Medellin (“Belén”, construcción de un retrato) ES

UOC_ Bajo Tierra ( Xcentric_entrevistada por Gloria Vilches)

Mostra de Films de dones (“Belén”, imaginarios y antropología) ES}_{Cinema Arts Houston (“Belén”) ENG}

RECENT ARTIST RESIDENCY

Docs Kingdom 2021

La Aceitera 2021

Centre Arbar 2021

Convent de Sant Agustin 2020

Casa de Lava 2020

Hangar 2020-2021

GRANTS

For the production, artist residency distribution and live screenings of her pieces she has won different grants and financial supports during the past years: Institut Ramón Llull, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y de las Artes de Cataluña, Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía de Venezuela CNAC, fondo Ibermedia, Instituto Cervantes (several countries), Spain and Culture San Francisco, Beca de Recerca i Creacio Generalitat de Catalunya, Acción Cultural Española ACE, among others.

SCREENINGS

_{Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Taiwan 2023

Dobra Experimental Film Festival, Brazil 2023

Eufonic Fest, Spain 2023

8_albe, Mostra di Arte Contemporanea, Italy 2023

Bòlit, Centre d’art Contemporaneo, Spain 2023

Suspaustaslaikas Experimental film festival, Lithuania 2023

Kasselerdokfest, Germany 2022

Chiquita Room, Spain 2022

L’Alternativa Festival de cinema Independent, Spain 2022

Encuentro en torno a un otro cine, Zineleku ofiziala, Spain 2022

Grec Festival Barcelona, Spain 2022

Temporada Alta, Spain 2022

Inter Art Center, Sweden 2022

Festival LOOP, Spain 2022

Almost Back to the Future Fest, Netherlands 2021

Auditorio de Girona, Spain 2021

Palau de la Música, Spain 2021

Teatre Lliure, Spain 2021

Festival LOOP, La Pedrera, Spain 2021

Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne, France 2021

Analogica Film Festival, Italy 2021

Corriente Encuentro Latinoamericano de No Ficción, Perú 2021

Matadero Madrid, Spain 2021

Temporada Alta, Spain 2021

Doc’s Kingdom, Portugal 2021
VideoEx, Switzerland 2021
La Aceitera, Spain 2021
Festival Grec, Teatro Lliceu, Spain 2021
ARBAR, Spain 2021
Cinemattic, Scottland 2021
Cinemateca de Medellin, Colombia 2021
Muestra America Negra, Brasil 2021
Curtas Vila do conde, Portugal 2020
Platform, Finland 2020
Casa de Lava, Spain 2020
Muta, Peru 2020
MICE Museo do Pobo Galego, Spain 2020
Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Paraguay-Cuba 2020
MIDBO, Colombia 2020

IFFR International Film Festival, Netherlands 2020

L'Alternativa Festival de Cine Independiente, Spain 2019

Winnipeg Underground Film Festival,Canada 2019
Light Field,USA 2019

Ambulante International Film Fest, Mexico 2019

Festival de cine Creative Commons, Spain 2018

Analogica Exp Film Festival, Italy 2018

Ultracinema Fest. de cine experimental y found footage,México 2018

L'Alternativa Festival de Cine Independiente, Spain 2018

Avant-garde and artists cinema from Latin America,Micro-cinema, USA 2018

Centro Cultural Museo Montehermoso, Spain 2018

Strangloscope Experimental film & video, Brasil 2018

Centro de la Imagen, México 2018

Centro Cultural de España, México 2018
Cineteca Nacional,
México 2018

Festival Curtas Vila do Conde,
Portugal 2018
Edinburgh Int. Film Festival, Scotland 2018

Festival de Cine Etnográfico MICE, Spain 2018

Crossroads SF Cinemateque and MoMa, USA 2018

Barcelona Creative Commons Film festival, Spain 2018

Oberhausen Int. Short Film Festival, Germany 2018
Process Festival, Letonia 2018
Zumzeig Cinema, España 2018
Fabra i Coats, España 2017
Scratch, Le Studio des Ursullines, France 2017

Festival di Cinema Latinoamericano, Italia 2017
Cinema Arts International Film Festival, USA 2017

Strangloscope Experimental film & video, Brasil 2017
Art Cinema Offoff, Belgium 2017
Festival Riverrun, France 2017
DOCMA/Cineteca, España 2017
Zineleku, España 2017
Klubvizija, Croatia 2017
Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones, España 2017

Macao, UnzaLab, Italia 2017
Exile Room Gallery, Greece 2017

IFFR International Film Festival, Netherlands 2017
Schmalfilmtage Film Fest, Alemania 2017
Mono no Aware X, USA 2016
Márgenes, España 2016
PAF Festival, Prague 2016
FILMAR en América Latina, Suiza 2016

Festival de Cine de Barquisimeto, Venezuela 2016
Caracas Doc, Venezuela 2016

Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá MIDBO, Colombia 2016

Margaret Mead Film Festival, USA 2016

Cinemateca Nacional, Red Nacional de cinematecas, Venezuela 2016
Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, México 2016

Centro de Cultura Digital, Cine más allá, México 2016
Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, España 2016

Dobra Experimental Film Festival, Brazil 2016
Curtas Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2016
FIDMarseille, France 2016

RE-MI, Bains Argentics Expanded cinema section, France 2016
Festival LOOP, España 2016
Zumzeig Cinema, España 2016

Cave 12, Switzerland 2015

Oslo 10, Switzerland 2015

Cinema Oblo, Switzerland 2015

Le 102, France 2015

Le Periscope, France 2015
Analogica film Festival, Italia 2015

BIM, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Argentina 2014
Laboratorio Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo), Uruguay 2014

(S8) Mostra Cine Periferico, España 2014

Sonar Festival, España 2014

MEM Festival Internacional de Arte Experimental, España 2013
Antic Teatre, España 2013

When the dreamer dies what happens to the dreams, España 2014

Crater Lab, España 2013

Primavera Sound / Festival LOOP, España 2013

This Is Not A Love Song, Exposición al Palau de la Virreina, España 2013

IV Mostra Súper 8, España 2013

Festival De Prop, La Pedrera, España 2012

Microscope Gallery, USA 2013
FIVAC, Festival Internacional de VideoArte de Camagüey, Cuba 2013

Crossroads International Film Festival, Cinemateque San Francisco, USA 2013

Black Hole Cinemateque, USA 2012
Millenium Film, USA 2012
Ecko Park Film Center, USA 2012

Artist Televisión Acces (ATA Site),USA 2012
ONG Organización Nelson Garrido, Venezuela 2012

ITAE, Instituto Superior de las Artes de Ecuador, Ecuador 2012
Ocho y Medio, Ecuador 2012

MAMB, Museo Arte Moderna da Bahía, Brasil 2012
Rio Teatro Caribe, Venezuela 2012
Can Xalant, España 2011
MBA, Museo Bellas Artes Caracas, Venezuela 2011

Cinemateca Nacional, Venezuela 2011
Centro Cultural Chacao, Venezuela 2011

Festival LOOP, Sala Miscelánea, España 2011
Festival Internacional EUROPES, Barcelona 2010}

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