Mara Chavez is a Mexican-Austrian visual artist and filmmaker. She combines research and storytelling to create visual narratives that explore the links between community, extraction, memory and migration.

The Ghosts We Care For

2023, Research, Intervention, Film

Chipped Shores

2022, Experimental, 7’

Tejidos

2022 (wop), Installation

Isthmus, a narrowing of land

2021, Documentary, 25’

Nostalgia por la muerte

2021, Experimental, 4’

Factory Movements

2020, Performace & Installation

Hintergrundsmusik

2020, Experimental, 5’

Sueños Fronterizos

2018, Research, Documentary, Radio

2023

mumok Cinema, AT
Pavillion Semperdepot, AT

2022

Swedenborg Film Festival, SE
Zoetrope, Athens, GR
Cinenova, Lisbon, PT
FECIBA, Mexico City, MX
Festival Gollut, Girona, ESP
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
Havana Film festival, Glasgow, UK
DOCUMENT – Human Rights Film Festival, Glasgow, UK

2015

Albertina, Vienna, AT
Designforum, Vienna, AT
Kunsthaus, Vienna, AT
Artenne Nenzing, Vorarlberg, AT

2023 | Schule Friedl Kubelka

School for Independent Film

2022 | HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg

Individual short course (MA) Film as Research Tool

2021 | Independent Cinema Office

Film Programming

2019-2020 | Goldsmiths University London

MA Documentary Filmmaking

2020 | Stockholm University

Individual short course (MA) Sustainability Science

2015-19 | University of Glasgow

MSc Social Sciences

2014-15 | DieGraphische, Vienna

Masterclass Alumni Graphic and Communication Design

WORK IN FILM

Mara Chavez
t.chavez@posteo.net

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