Born in Brasília, Brazil’s modernist capital, from the encounter of my parent’s in the film set of ‘Brasiliários’ in 1985. At the age of seventeen, I moved to Melbourne, Australia where I completed my secondary studies as well as a Bachelor degree in Media & Communications with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2007. My graduating film “Sacris Pulso”, a short experimental film exploring the inter-implications of memory, identity and imagination marked the beginning of my film practice as well as my interest upon the dialectics between the past and present and its consequential temporal implications, the old and the new as well as truth and fiction. In 2009, I completed my Honors degree through which I explored the texts of Spanish mystic saint Teresa of Avila in a research based project resulting in a short film and thesis, where I explored the pertinence of fiction as a form of self-invention through Julia Kristeva’s ficto-essay “Thérèse, Mon Amour”. In 2010, I was awarded an Artist Fellowship by The Immigration Museum where I completed my second short film “510: Meditations on a Theme” as well as video installation, “Moving Portraits”. My work continues to engage with themes of identity, subjectivity and memory through explorations in film and video. My work is particularly interested in the ambivalence and instability present at the heart of subject-formation in relation to spatial, temporal and cultural configurations.
