Residency Dates: October 12, 2015 - November 01, 2015
Application Deadline: May 31, 2015
Natalia Almada is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and recipient of the 2009 Sundance Documentary Directing Award for her film “El General,” Almada’s most recent film “El Velador” premiered at New Directors/New Films and the Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. Her previous credits include “All Water Has a Perfect Memory,” an experimental short film that premiered at Sundance 2011 and received the Best Short FIlm and “Al Otro Lado,” her award-winning debut feature documentary about immigration, drug trafficking and corrido music. Almada’s films have screened at Documenta13, The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum and The 2008 Whitney Biennial. All three feature documentaries have broadcast on the award-winning series POV. Almada has received Guggenheim, USA Artists, Alpert and MacDowell fellowships. She graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives in Mexico City.
For more information please visit www.altamurafilms.com
Residency Statement
I look forward to working with artists who use film or photography (or other mediums which they believe relate to film or photography). Questions of narrative, objectivity/subjectivity, reality/truth/fabrication/falsification, memory/documentation… which are at the heart of film and photography will be used as a framework for discussion and point of intersection.
We will meet as a group to look at and discuss each other’s work. The idea of the group meetings is to listen to how others perceive our work and to learn to critique in a constructive manner which is critical and honest, yet supportive and respectful. From these meetings we may also find texts or works which we’d like to discuss as a group. The goal is to create an intimate and inspiring environment in which to push our work to its limits. I will also be available for individual meetings.
Application requirements
- BIO (.doc, .docx, .pdf)
- one page description of your project or current practice (.doc, .docx, .pdf)
- one word that synthesizes the project (may be included with the one page description above)
- up to 10 images (.jpg, .pdf)
and/or
up to 10 minutes of online video – Please include separate document with links to online work YouTube, Vimeo, web site, etc.) (.doc, .docx, .pdf)
Residency Fee: $900
Includes a $100 administration fee, weekday meals and housing; does not include artist materials, transportation, or weekend meals.
Scholarships / Financial Assistance
Only accepted Associate Artists may apply for financial assistance. For details, please visit this link.