Luciana Decker
Filmmaker – Visual artist
Born in 1993 in La Paz, Bolivia
lucianadeckerorozco@gmail.com
STUDIES
2022-2024 Cinematic Arts MFA University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee
2021 Diplomat in Sound Art Experimental and Sound Arts Base (BASE) (virtual) Concepción, Chile
2018-2020 Master in Bolivian and Latin-American literature University of San Andrés, La Paz Bolivia
2017 Diploma in management of teaching in higher education University of San Andrés, La Paz Bolivia
2012-2017 Bachelor in anthropology Bolivian Catholic University, Cochabamba Bolivia
FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES
2024 Resident Artist at Gasworks, London UK Sep 30th - Dec 16th
2024 Jury Prize at ICDOCS for SPOILS
2024 Honor Mention at Andares Cinematográficos with LO QUE LOS HUMANOS VEN COMO SANGRE, LOS JAGUARES VEN COMO CHICHA
2023 Selected participant at LIFT Labs Gathering “Analog Resilience” Toronto, Canada
2022 Granted as Mentee in Forecast Platform, Berlin with WHAT HUMANS SEE AS BLOOD JAGUARS SEE AS CHICHA
2022 Granted as Nominee in Forecast Platform, Berlin with WHAT HUMANS SEE AS BLOOD JAGUARS SEE AS CHICHA
2022 Participation in BAL Baltic Analog Film Lab Latvia
2022 MFA summer grant from the University of Iowa for the project THE LANGUAGE OF THE ENTRAILS
2021 Iowa Arts Fellowship for University of Iowa MFA in Video and Film production
2020 Focuart research grant for the project “Early information about cinema in Bolivia 1911-1920”
2020 Prize for Best Film at Festival de Cine Radical, La Paz Bolivia for LARAMA
2017 Eduardo Avaroa prize for the best documentary for NANA
2017 Selected as Director in Talents Buenos Aires at BAFICI International Film Festival, Argentina
2016 Prize for the Transcinema Best Trans Andean Film for NANA
2016 DocLab selected in Festival Internacional de Guadalajara with NANA
2015 Translab Laboratory for documentaries in Transcinema International Film Festival Lima Perú with NANA
2015 Film lab residence at Transfrontera Arica Chile
FILMS
2023 LO QUE LOS HUMANOS VEN COMO SANGRE, LOS JAGUARES VEN COMO CHICHA (Mediometraje, documental experimental, 20 min.) Open City Documentary Festival Londres 2023, Cámara Vitrea: Lo que sueñan los jaguares. La Vertiente 2023, Andares. Acciones Cinematográficas. Lima Perú, 2024. Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, 2024. Jeonju International Film Festival Expanded Cinema Section, 2024, Otherwise Film Festival, 2024, Festival ECRÃ Rio de Janeiro, 2024, Festival de Cine Incahuara - Caranavi, 2024. Locarno Film Festival, Open Doors section, 2024. Diffusion Film Festival, Toronto 2024. MIDBO, 2024, CineToro Film Festival, 2024.
2023 SPOILS (cortometraje experimental, 7 min.) Diffussion Toronto Canadá 2023, Other Frecuencies IA USA 2023, Light Matter FF NY USA 2023, Flat Earth FF Iceland 2023, Prisme #4 Argentique du futur Nantes France 2023, NY Film Diary III "Coldest Winter" 2024, IC Docs 2024. WUFF, May 2024, Light Matter in Buenos Aires and Chicago June 2024, FICUNAM June 2024, Cinemancia Medellín September 2024, Festival Play Corrientes September 2024, Lima Alterna Festival de Cine October 2024, Kasseler Dokfest November 2024
2021 OBJETOS PARLANTES (cortometraje, documental experimental, 8 min.) Transcinema Perú, 2021. Cinemancia Medellín, 2022.
2020 BELÉN (cortometraje, documental observacional con sonido binaural, 25 min.) In/Out Festival de Arte Sonoro, Brasil 2020.
2020 LARAMA (cortometraje, documental observacional, 8 min.) Frontera Sur Festival Concepción Chile, 2021 - Cinemancia Film Festival Colombia, 2021 - WOFF, 2021 - Festival de Cine Radical, 2020 Premio a Mejor Película.
2016 NANA (Mediometraje documental , 60 min.) A Cielo Abierto 2017, Festival de Cine de Jujuy 2017, Torino Film Festival 2016, Transcinema Film Festival 2016 Winner of the Transandean competition, Pachamama Film Festival 2016, Frontera Sur Film Festival 2016, Festival de Cine Radical 2016
INSTALLATIONS / PROJECTIONS
2024 IN BETWEENNESS MYSTERIES Film program with UWM's experimental film archive.
2024 LANGUAGE OF THE ENTRAILS 3 hour loop installation, 5 channels, stereo ambient sound CCAM - Chicago, Underscore - Milwaukee.
2023 WHAT HUMANS SEE AS BLOOD JAGUARS SEE AS CHICHA 16mm film projection solo installation at the mentee’s presentation at Forecast Platform Berlin,
Radialsystem March 2023
2021 Film programmer of “Retrospective to Luis Mérida Coímbra Un pájaro con chompa larga y de mangas interminables” for Festival de Cine Radical in Bolivia
2020 Programmer and projectionist of First Home Movie Day Celebration in La Paz projected in super 8mm with María Domínguez
PUBLISHED TEXTS
2024 "Water Dreams", published in Short Ends Magazine #3 UWM
2023 “Apparitions”, published in Short Ends Magazine #2 UWM
2020 “The language of the entrails in Puro Andar”. Symposium #13 Towards new approaches and horizons of understanding in Andean reflection and
analogous cultural spaces presented at the XIV Andean Jornadas of Latin-American literature Jalla México 2020: Animal worlds, plant worlds, bodies and
souls on Earth. https://youtu.be/3tiJUBkIUbE
2017 “El Bachfilm”, in film critic Magazine Nuevas Pornos. Retrieved from http://nuevas-pornos.blogspot.com/index.html
2016 “Field Niggas y la Balada del Oppenheimer, in film critic Magazine Nuevas Pornos. Retrieved from http://nuevas-pornos.blogspot.com/index.html
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022-2024 University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee Teacher Assistant of Cinematic Arts foundation courses.
2020-2021 Franz Tamayo University in La Paz Bolivia. Professor of Audiovisual Production Audiovisual Communication and English.