Annalisa D. Quagliata

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Calypso Trailer

Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco (b. Veracruz, Mexico) is a visual artist whose films and installations focus on the human body and portraiture. In her work the body is explored as a mirror that reflects different states of being; spanning from the personal to the social and political. She has a strong interest in analog and handmade film as a medium that captures the poetics of light and the moving image. Annalisa grew up in Mexico City but has lived in Taiwan, New York and Boston. She is a graduate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she majored in Film/Video and Studio for Interrelated Media. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including the Museum of the Moving Image and Mono No Aware Festival in New York, Museo Tamayo in Mexico, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in Argentina, Fronteira Festival in Brazil, Analogica Festival in Italy, and otherfilm festivals and venues. She is a Princess Grace Foundation Honoraria and recipient of the Stephen D. Paine Scholarship. Annalisa currently resides and works in Mexico City.

Most Popular Annalisa D. Quagliata Trailers

Total trailers found: 14

Árbol de la Noche Victoriosa Trailer (2020)

30 June 2020

500 years ago ... The Spanish had already committed the bloody massacre in the Templo Mayor and were entrenched in the Axayacatl palace .

Misters - Without Blame - Trailer (2016)

02 November 2016

"... Quagliata manipulates Agustín Lara’s song, “Veracruz,” together with audio from interviews with activist, poet and film festival promoter Nadia Vera, and freelance photojournalist Rubén Espinosa, both of whom were assassinated.

El árbol de la noche victoriosa Trailer (2023)

22 March 2023

Five hundred years ago the Spanish had already committed the bloody massacre of the Great Temple and were entrenched in the palace of Axayacatl, after Mexican warriors killed hundreds of Spaniards and their Tlaxcalan allies.

D.F.iéndete (Ciudad Vándala) Trailer (2016)

01 January 2016

Short film shot in Super 8 with handmade film techniques; it is an audiovisual poem that reflects the Historic Centre of Mexico City.

landscape Trailer (2013)

18 January 2013

One of the first films by visual artist Annalisa D. Quagliata, inspired by the work of Bill Viola.

Missing (A Sea of Absence) Trailer (2016)

02 February 2016

A short film that illustrates a harrowing truth: the overwhelming numbers of missing women in Mexico.

Xochipilli Trailer (2018)

25 November 2018

A look that surrounds the statue of Xochipilli, the prince of the flowers. The look that observes and pays homage to the Aztec god of the arts, the dancing and the poetry.

Calypso Trailer (2016)

03 August 2016

Inspired by Homer's Odyssey, the film creates a queer reinterpretation of the nymph Calypso who traps Odysseus on her island.

Aoquic iez in Mexico! Mexico Will No Longer Exist! Trailer (2024)

15 June 2024

A frenetic gaze sweeps across the tumultuous Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of mestizaje and other colonial violences.

My Cell Phone Trailer (2023)

22 March 2023

The cell phone schemes behind their users’ backs to jump into their skin and turn them into prisoners of light.

Fin - Es una pelicula Mexicana Trailer (2016)

02 February 2016

Short film based on an old Mexican film.

Outcry (for Luther) Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

“Luther Price’s handmade film work demonstrated the vagaries of trauma internal to the medium itself: the simultaneously world-destroying and world-repairing possibilities of unmaking and remaking of the body of the film strip.

A Nuestro Tiempo (Closer to Our Time) Trailer (2018)

01 January 2018

Quagliata Blanco turns to the archive once more. Here she samples images from Leobardo López Arretche’s landmark 1968 protest documentary El Grito to stress the unresolved promises of the 1968 cultural revolution in Mexico.

Chrysalis Trailer (2017)

01 June 2017

Short film that uses handmade film techniques to create a dreamlike portrait, illustrating a process of regeneration and change.