Valentina Pelayo Atilano
Directing
Biography
A multidisciplinary artist whose work weaves between painting, installation and film. She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art (2011) and holds a BA from CalArts (2016). In addition, she earned two master's degrees, one in Theory and Criticism of Culture from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, as well as in creation from Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (2021). She is currently a PhD candidate in multimedia art at the University of Lisbon. She has held fellowships in the United States as well as in Europe, and her work has been commissioned, exhibited and awarded internationally.
Known For
A film essay that intertwines the director's gaze with that of her late mother. Beyond exploring mourning and absence as exclusively painful experiences, the film pays tribute to her mother through memories embodied by places and objects that evidence the traces of her existence. The filmmaker asks herself: What does she owe her mother for who she is and how she films? To what extent does her film belong to her?
Deshilando Luz
Resembling a constellation of ideas and sentiments of a (still) wounded land, the taxi ride of the filmmaker through Mexico City interweaves Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s account of “The True History of the Conquest of New Spain”; from there sprouts the echoes of violence and what remains in silence.
Streams of Silence
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