Laura Huertas Millan is a FrenchColombian filmmaker and visual artist whose practise stands at the intersection between cinema contemporary art and research Selected in cinema festivals such as the Berlinale Toronto International Film Festival TIFF Rotterdam International Film Festival New York Film Festival and Cinéma du Réel her films have earn prizes at the Locarno Film Festival FIDMarseille Doclisboa and Videobrasil among others More than twenty retrospectives and focus of her work have been organised around the globe in cinematheques such as Toronto s TIFF Lightbox Harvard s Film Archive or Bogota s cinematheque and leading film festivals as Mar del Plata and Rencontres du Documentaire de Montreal In the art field her latest solo exhibitions were held at the MASP Sao Paulo Maison des Arts de Malakoff and Medellin s Modern Art Museum Her films have also been exhibited and screened in art institutions Centre Pompidou Paris Jeu de Paume Guggenheim Museum NY Times Art Berlin and biennials Liverpool FRONT Triennial Videobrasil Videonnale They are part of private and public collections Kadist CNAP Banco de la República de Colombia CIFO FRAC Lorraine and others Huertas Millan holds a practisebased PhD on Ethnographic Fictions developed between PSL University SACRe program and the Sensory Ethnography Lab Harvard University She works as an educator in academic and alternative spaces Since 2019 Huertas Millan is part of a researchbased duo with curator and writer Rachael Rakes on critical anthropology and the aesthetics and politics of the encounter
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