About

Maria Chrisá is an independent Brazilian filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. She holds a MA in Filmmaking from the Sheffield Hallam University (UK) and has a background in Journalism. She has been working across video art, video performance, experimental films, analogue and digital, photography, poetry, and music. As a documentary photographer, she has works published in Brazilian newspapers and magazines and was selected for MAGNUM PHOTOS’ workshop with french photographer Antoine D’Agata. Driven by existential and societal concerns, Maria practice explores female subjectivities and gender equality, movement, human rights, climate emergency, technology/dehumanising effect, solitude and free expression. Her practice is based on experimental narratives of place, the passage of time, human interactions with the non-human, communities and nature. She has video art works awarded in Brazil by “Itaú Cultural”, “FUNARTE” and “FUNARJ”.