Project Description
Felipe Esparza
FSC-Harvard Fellow 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26
Felipe Esparza Pérez (1985. Talara, Peru) graduated with a master’s degree from Centro de la Imagen (Lima) and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (France). His work creates dynamic links and tensions between film and visual arts, with a strong interest in rituals, faith and its symbolic derivations and the relationship between image and time, image and history, and image and truth. His work has been shown in Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New Cinema and Contemporary Art, Guangzhou Image Triennial (China), Shangyuang Museum of Contemporary Art (Pekín), Biennale Videobrasil (Sao Paulo), Los Angeles Film Forum, Berlinale Talent Campus, FIVA Videoart Festival, Rotterdam IFFR, Curtocircuíto, Moscow IFF, Torino IFF, Beijing BIFF, Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal. His first feature film, Cielo abierto, had its world premiere in Rotterdam IFFR and won best Peruvian film at the Lima Film Festival.
FSC Works
Y sobre esta piedra
Felipe Esparza
Y sobre esta piedra is a video installation that creates a parallel between two materials that are historically and culturally related. Between stone and technology, between manual work and digital work, between the open and the closed, between the pagan and the sacred, and also between two types of being before the mythical or the imaginary. Subtly stirring up the historical dust of the colonial heritage.
An Instructional Sound Film
Felipe Esparza
Through the re-creation and imitation of the staging of the educational documentary Peru: People of the Mountains (1941). An important part of the project will be the geographic location and all that this process can activate as ideas that will help in the re-reading that this documentary could have. It will be a process of dissecting this documentary produced in 1941, and trying to connect the past and the present after so many years, and the reproduction of the same patterns imprinted in the socio-cultural structure.