Felipe Esparza Pérez

Felipe Esparza's work creates dynamic links and tensions between film, visual arts and video creation. In his projects, a strong interest in social content coexists with an exploration of themes such (...) as nature, the sacred, its symbolic derivations and the relationship between image and time, image and history and image and truth. He approaches the complex representation of these themes by developing visual narratives in which the contemporary visual imagination cohabits with archives and with local and universal cultural codes, to the point of creating pieces of metalanguage. She currently focuses on rituals, post-colonial remains around the sacred and the trace of materials as a sensitive archaeological gesture. His videos and video installations have been shown in national art centers such as: MALI, Luis Miró Quesada, Lugar de la Memoria LUM, Ministerio de Cultura (Lima), Festival de Lima Independiente, Festival Lima Alterna, Crisis Galería, Festival de Cine de Lima, Corriente No Ficción; and international art centers such as: Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin - New Cinema and Contemporary Art, Guangzhou Image Triennial (China), Shangyuang Museum of Contemporary Art (Beijing), Videobrasil Festival (Sao Paulo), Los Angeles Film Forum, Museo Reina Sofía, Museo Tamayo, Bienal del Sur, Buenos Aires Video Art Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR, Uppsala Shortfilm Festival, Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist", Curtocircuíto IFF, Moscow International Film Festival, Montreal International Festival of New Cinema, Cine Ceará, Torino IFF, MIDBO, Beijing BISFF, Blackcanvas IFF, Halifax IFF, Frontera Sur, among others. His work is part of the Jan Mulder Collection and the catalog Ismo Ismo Ismo Ismo: Experimental Cinema in Latin America. Graduated from the Master of Mal de Foco at the Centro de la Imagen, Director at the Berlinale Talent Campus and selected artist at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, France. He is currently a fellow at the Film Study Center at Harvard University.