Felipe Esparza Pérez (1985. Talara, Peru) graduated with a master’s degree from Centro de la Imagen (Lima) and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (France). His work creates dynamic links and tensions between film and visual arts, with a strong interest in rituals, faith and its symbolic derivations and the relationship between image and time, image and history, and image and truth. His work has been shown in Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New Cinema and Contemporary Art, Guangzhou Image Triennial (China), Shangyuang Museum of Contemporary Art (Pekín), Bienal Sur (Argentina), Biennale Videobrasil (Sao Paulo), St.Moritz Art Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Forum, FIVA Videoart Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Curtocircuíto, Moscow IFF, Torino IFF, Lima Alterna IFF, Beijing BIFF, Frontera Sur, MIDBO, Montreal New Cinema Festival, Film Festival Ceará, among others. He is currently a fellow and works at the Film Study Center and the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University.
Felipe is a mentor to Mateo Vega for Vrijplaats residency: Hybrid – fiction/non-fiction.