Mateo Vega (Lima, 1994) is a filmmaker and artist from Peru raised in Amsterdam, and a graduate of Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam University College and The New School. The starting point of their work is the subjective experience of (urban) space, and the politics, histories and futurities embedded in landscapes, architecture and infrastructure.
Their films and installations have been shown at festivals and venues including MoMA, Film at Lincoln Center (US), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Go Short, Framer Framed, Amsterdam Museum, Theater Rotterdam (NL), DMZ Docs (KR), Glasgow Short Film Festival (GB), Guanajuato International Film Festival (MX), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (CA), and many others.
Research question
Mateo is developing Panamericana Transatlantica, a hybrid film that combines post-apocalyptic fiction with essayistic reflections on family history, (neo)colonialism and the industrialisation of Peru. They’re thereby exploring the question of how to position ourselves in the present through fabulations on both past and future, especially relating to histories and systems of colonialism and oppression and their resulting contradictions.