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Cecilia Araneda |
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BIOGRAPHY |
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Cecilia Araneda - Chilean-born, Winnipeg based filmmaker Cecilia Araneda holds a B.F.A. (hons) in Theatre (playwriting) from York University and an M.F.A. In Creative Writing (screenwriting) from U.B.C. Araneda has completed eight short films as director and writer, which have won awards and screened in film festivals, curated programs and art house cinema across three continents – including in New York, Chicago, Paris, Madrid, Leeds, Cologne, Santiago, Montevideo, Toronto and Montreal. Araneda is currently Executive Director of the Winnipeg Film Group. She is additionally a practicing curator, a founder of and programmer for the WNDX festival, a programmer from the Gimme Some Truth documentary forum and has recently served as editor for the anthology PLACE: 13 essays, 13 filmmakers, 1 city, on 13 Winnipeg independent feature filmmakers. |
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"The
first thing I remember was the step between.”
Chilean-born, Winnipeg-based filmmaker Cecilia Araneda has been
working with images since at least 1998, when her first
documentary, CHILE: A HISTORY IN EXILE, was released. She’s
been living with images for even longer. As the title of her
first film makes clear, the experience of exile and the absent
presence of Chile form a background for much of Araneda’s
exploration of memory. Araneda works in video and film, in
fiction, documentary and experimental modes, testing the image
for what it tells us about ourselves – our past and how we
imagine it in pieces and textures. Often in Araneda’s
work, a fragment of a word or an image or a colour – red,
for example – triggers an associational process of
remembrance. To live with images which linger after the moment
has passed: the signs of a presence and an absence. How we
remember, how we forget, and the role of the image in stasis and
unpredictable movement – these are the motors and the
enduring questions of Cecilia Araneda’s memory work in
film. |
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