The conversation will revolve around the representation of the queer migrating experience through documentary film, what are the potentials and limitations of (re)presenting this type of story through the cinema, and what is the filmmaker’s space in relation to the protagonists.
Camila Flores-Fernández is a researcher and visual anthropologist. She has a bachelor’s degree in Literature (PUCP, Peru) and a master’s in Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies (KU Leuven, Belgium), which she obtained through the VLIR-UOS scholarship. She has worked as a researcher and curatorial assistant in Peru and Belgium. Camila has participated in over 15 academic events with grants from institutions such as LASA and AsAECA. Her visual works have been showcased in galleries and international festivals, earning accolades along the way. Her most recent achievement includes winning the film contest of the 2023 Copenhagen Architecture Festival. She is currently a recipient of the Erasmus+ scholarship for the MA in Media Arts Cultures and is working on a new documentary that emerged as the winner of the A-PLACE fund from the LOOP Festival in Spain.
Victoria Sacco has been working with LOOP Barcelona since 2014, where she is currently the artistic director.
She is a professor at the Escola Superior de Disseny (ESDi) and the Universitat Carlemany (UCMA). She also writes for La Maleta de Portbou and is the editor of Muntadas. Con/Textos III. Una antología críticapublished by La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in 2020. Recently, she curated the exhibition “Once upon a time” by Leeds Animation Workshop at the Virreina Centre de La Imatge.
She previously worked as a project co-ordinator and later became the co-director of the Quo Artis foundation. In Barcelona, she has also carried out research and exhibition production for institutions such as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Antoni Tàpies foundation, and the Joan Miró foundation.
She graduated in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires and subsequently completed the Independent Studies Program at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Master’s in Curatorship of Art and New Media at the Escola Superior de Disseny (ESDi).