Ana María Vallejo
Directing
Biography
Born 1983 in Medellin, Colombia. Filmmaker and director of animation living currently in Weimar, Germany, where she works as lecturer at the Bauhaus University and as co-director of the International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia. In 2015 she finished her master’s in media art & design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and her graduation film “Love in Nine Postcards around the World”. In 2020 and 2021 she participated in the International Animation Film Workshop in Krakow/Lanckorona. “Song of the Flies III - Night” won the award for best animation in the national category at Bogotá Short film Festival in 2021 and in 2022 the award for best emerging director at Kurzsuechtig in Leipzig.
Known For
The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places, as a transit over the course of a day (Morning, Day, Night) a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analogue materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.
Song of the Flies
“Ese” is a journalist and has to travel due to work. Meanwhile, “Ele” (her partner) stays at home with his plants and his work as a biologist as company. In her absence, they correspond with postcards and, between Ese’s enthusiasm for her travels and Ele’s nostalgia, their correspondence comes to embody their love, which is inevitably transformed by time and distance.
La vuelta al mundo en postales de amor
The experimental animated film, El Canto de las Moscas, translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945-2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian artists.
Song of the Flies III – Night
The experimental animated film, El Canto de las Moscas, translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945-2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places that are visited during the course of a day, a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analog materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.