Gabriel Mascaro Biography | Film Director and Artist

Gabriel Mascaro (1983) is a visual artist and filmmaker from Recife, Brazil. Mascaro’s work is characterized by a critical interpretation of the contemporaneity and investigates relations between micropolitics and everyday life from different media such as film, installation and photography, installation and photography. He researches minimalist narratives and self-fictions. As a process, it uses narrative re-appropriation and perspective inversion games.

His films and video installations have been screened at important festivals and artistic events/exhibitions including Venice, IDFA, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, MoMAn-nNY, Oberhausen, Clermont Ferrand, the Guggenheim, MACBAn- Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Panorama da Arte Brasileira at MAM – SP and the São Paulo Art Biennale.

Mascaro participated in the Videobrasil Artistic Residency at the Videoformes in France and the Wexner Center for Arts in the USA.

As a screenwriter, he was awarded for the Hubert Bals Fund (HOL) and Cinereach (USA).

His films have won over 50 awards. In April 2016 he had a retrospective of his work at the Lincoln Center in New York.

Filmography

 

– Divine Love’, 2019, Brazil/Uruguay/Denmark, ’99, fiction, 2K
– Neon Bull’, 2015, Brazil/Uruguay/Netherlands, 101′, fiction, 2K
– August Winds’, 2014, Brazil, 77’, fiction, HD
– Housemaids’, 2012, Brazil, 75’ documentary, HD video.
– Ebb & Flow’, 2012, Brazil/Spain, 25’, creative documentary, HD
– Defiant Brasilia’, 2010, Brazil, 85’, creative documentary, HD.
– The Adventures of Paulo Bruscky’, 2010, Brazil, 20’, mixed media documentary, HD
– High-Rise’, 2009, Brazil, 70’, documentary, HD
– KFZ-1348’, 2008, Brazil, 85’, documentary, 35mm

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