Not three months from inauguration, exhibition Penumbra is given new, well-deserved recognition in the form of entry into competition Cineasti del presente at the Locarno Film Festival (August 3-13, 2022). The section is dedicated to young filmmakers at their first or second film. É Noite na América (It Is Night in America, 2021) by Ana Vaz (b. Brazil, 1986) is a meditative portrait on the several animal species that have been rescued and now live in the Brasilia Zoo and also a challenge to the conservation ideology fighting a danger that comes from humans themselves. Ana Vaz’s film compositions, installations, and performance art pieces focus on territories and events that, in Brazil, still carry the consequences of colonialism and modernism, especially on the environment, society, and forms of life other than human.jects and artists, institutions, and research centres that work on film, video, performance art, and installation art.

By weaving together history and myth, the artist uses the tools of film to hack into the centrality of human points of view. Vaz is also a founding member of collective COYOTE together Tristan Bera, Nuno da Luz, Elida Hoëg, and Clémence Seurat. COYOTE is an inter- disciplinary group that works on ecology and political science using conceptual and experimental formats. A goal reached for Fondazione In Between Art Film, who produced the exhibition that includes Penumbra at Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, in Venice. The Foundation sponsors cultural projects and artists, institutions, and research centres that work on film, video, performance art, and installation art.