Paula Gaitán

  • Brazil
  • 1954

I'm a poet, photographer, visual artist, teacher, and filmmaker. I studied visual arts and philosophy in Bogotá, Colombia, my home country. I've published poems in literary magazines and anthologies of Latin American poetry. I came to Brazil, my second homeland, in 1977. I am the daughter of a Brazilian mother, the theater director Dina Moscovici, and a Colombian father, the poet Jorge Gaitán Durán.
It was in Brazil that I realized my first installations with moving images and photography. I was invited to work as an art director on the film "The Age of the Earth" (1980), by Glauber Rocha, a decisive experience in my aesthetic formation and in the perception and learning of cinematic language. From that moment on, I began working in cinema as a director, always strengthening my dialogue with visual arts, photography, and performance.

Sometimes, I shoot and edit my own films. They are works that can be exhibited in cinemas, public spaces, or art galleries. Since then, I have noticed my constant and inexhaustible interest in visual and sound research.

There are significant moments in my trajectory, such as the filming in 1987 of "Uaká," my first feature film, in the Kamaiurá village, in Alto Xingu (MT), where I filmed the homage to the dead and witnessed the Kamaiurá cosmology and the relationship that the indigenous people of this tribe have with life and death, an invisible fabric of threads intertwined with the light of historical materialism.

Read more
Festival applications
image
2023
Competition OZA
Rate. viewers7.7