Mara Chavez is a Latine visual artist and filmmaker. She combines different methods of research and storytelling to explore the links between community, extraction, memory and migration.
Déchoukaj
2023, Research, Intervention, Documentary
Isthmus, a narrowing of land
2021, Documentary, 25’
Chipped Shores
2022, Video Essay, 7’
Tejidos
2022-23, Installation
Nostalgia por la muerte
2021, Video Essay, 4’
Factory Movements
2020, Performace & Installation
Hintergrundsmusik
2020, Experimental, 5’
Sueños Fronterizos
2018, Research, Documentary, Radio
2023
Austrian Filmmuseum, Vienna, ATFISURA, Festival de Cine Experimental, Mexico City, MX
mumik kino, Vienna, AT
2022
Swedenborg Film Festival, SEZoetrope, Athens, GR
Cinenova, Lisbon, PT
Festival Gollut, Girona, ESP
FECIBA, Mexico City, MX
Event Research Programme Glasgow, UK
Equinoxio, Bogota, CO
Student World Impact, New York, USA
Alucine, Toronto, CA
undocumenta, Kassel, DE
Glasgow Zine Library, UK
Reflektor Gallery, Užice, SRB
Improper Walls, Vienna, AT
Toronto Multicultural Film Festival, CA
Labile Botschaft, Vienna, AT
Bratislava International Film Festival, SK
Duemila30, Milan, IT
2019
Havana Film festival, Glasgow, UKDOCUMENT – Human Rights Film Festival, Glasgow, UK
2015
Albertina, Vienna, ATDesignforum, Vienna, AT
Kunsthaus, Vienna, AT
Artenne Nenzing, Vorarlberg, AT
EDUCATION
2022/23 | Schule Friedl Kubelka
School for Independent Film2021 | HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg
Individual short course (MA) Film as Research Tool2019-2020 | Goldsmiths University London
MA Documentary Filmmaking 2015-19 | University of Glasgow
MSc Psychology & Social Sciences2014-15 | DieGraphische, Vienna
Masterclass Alumni Graphic and Communication Design AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2023 | BMKÖS Film & Art Stipend
2023 | Risktakers Fellow (Superrr Lab & Allianz Foundation)
2022 | Student World Impact Honorable Mention (Lighthouse Film Festival)
2022 | Best Experimental Short (BFF)
2020 | Screenskills emerging filmmaker mentee
WORK IN FILM & MEDIA
2021 | Panama Film, Vienna, AT
2020 | Ojo de Agua Comunicación, Oaxaca, MX
2019-20 | Refugee Infobus, Calais, FR
2019 | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF), UK
2019 | Sheffield DocFest, UK
2018 | Femspectives Film Festival, UK
2018 | Document – Human Rights Film Festival, UK
2018 | Glasgow Short Film Festival, UK
2018 | Glasgow Film Festival, UK
2017 | OaxacaCine, MX