Laura Huertas Millán CV b. in 1983, Bogotá, Colombia. Lives and works in Paris, France. [email protected] tel: + 33 (0) 667783951 www.laurahuertasmillan.com

Education

2017 PhD, ENS rue d’Ulm, Beaux-Arts de Paris (SACRe program), Paris, France. 2014 Visiting fellow, Sensory Ethnography Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. 2012 Master´s degree, Le Fresnoy (summa cum laude), Tourcoing, France. 2009 MFA (summa cum laude), Beaux-Arts de Paris, France.

Awards / Grants / Residences

2018 Research Grant, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France Emerging Artist Award, Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, USA. Best Direction Prize, Pardo di domani competition, Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland. Best Film Tenderfilm Award, Tenderpixel, London, England. Best experimental film, Bogoshorts, Colombia. Shortlisted, Future Generation Art Prize, PinchuckArtCenter, Kiev, Ukraine.

2017 Best Film, National Competition, MIDBO, Bogota, Colombia. Grand Prix, Biennale de la Jeune Création Européenne (BJC), Montrouge, France. Best short film, Fronteira Film Festival, Goiânia, Brazil. Conseil départemental des Hauts-de-Seine Prize, Salon de Montrouge, France.

2016 Jury´s mention, Grand Prix international competition, Doclisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. Jury´s mention, Grand Prix French competition, FIDMarseille, Marseille, France. PhD Research Grant, PSL, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, France. Production Grant, Film Study Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Post-production Grant, cinéma 93-CNC, France. Nominee, Rolex Mentor and Protégé initiative (Cinema), New York, USA.

2015 Residency, Fundación Arquetopia, Oaxaca, Mexico. Film Development Grant, Fondo Cinematográfico Colombiano, Bogota, Colombia. Production Grant, Film Study Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

2014 Jury´s mention, Bienal de la Imagen en movimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina. PhD Research Grant, PSL, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, France. Production Grant, Film Study Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Production Grant, Paris City Council, France.

2013 Arquetopia Resartis Prize, Videobrasil Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Production grant, Fondo Cinematográfico Colombiano, Bogota, Colombia.

2010 Video prize, Fondation Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France. Production Grant, Mairie de Paris, France.

2006 Collin-Lefranc fellowship, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France.

!1 Solo Exhibitions

2019 Video Room: Laura Huertas Millán, Sao Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), Brazil.

2018 le chant du printemps. the spring song. Maison des Arts – Centre d’art de Malakoff, France.

2016 Ficción etnográfica. Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia. Disappearing operations. Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, ENSBA, Paris, France.

2015 Apocalípticos e integrados. Metales pesados, Santiago de Chile, Chile.

2013 Aequador, Ici, Là-bas et Lisboa (duo). Villa Arson, Nice, France.

2011 Lógicas del fragmento. Alliance Française, Bogota, Colombia.

Retrospectives and Solo Screenings

2020 Focus Laura Huertas Millán, Tabakalera, San Sebastián, Spain. Focus Laura Huertas Millán, Cinélatino, Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France.

2019 Ethnofictions by Laura Huertas Millan. Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, USA. The ethno-fictions of Laura Huertas Millán. CCA, Glasgow, UK. Las películas de Laura Huertas Millán, CA2M, Madrid, Spain. Artist in focus, Doc´s Kingdom, Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal. Retrospective Laura Huertas Millán, Curtocircuito Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Laura Huertas Millán: For a decolonised ethnography, RIDM, Montreal, Canada. Retrospective Laura Huertas Millán, Colombian Cinematheque, Bogota, Colombia. Focus Laura Huertas Millán, Artist Week-ender, HOME, Manchester, UK.

2018 Retrospective Laura Huertas Millán. Festival de Mar del Plata, Argentina. The ethno-fictions of Laura Huertas Millán. ICA, Londres, UK. Ethnographic Fictions. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA. Two films by Laura Huertas Millán. OCA, Oslo, Norway.

2017 MDFF presents Laura Huertas Millán, Lightbox, Toronto, Canada. Flaherty Seminar, New York, USA. Sol Negro. Saison Vidéo, FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France. Sol Negro. Special session, Cartagena International Film Festival, Colombia. Colonial Crimes Scenes (double projection). UnionDocs, New York, USA.

2016 Screening : Laura Huertas Millán. Pitzer College, Claremont, USA.

2015 Lugares : Laura Huertas Millán. Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2014 Laura Huertas Millán,expanded cinema program. Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia.

2013 T/R/OPIQUE. Musée château d’Annecy, Annecy, France. Focus Laura Huertas Millán. Saison vidéo, ESAAT, Roubaix, France.

!2 Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2020 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK.

2019 The Life of Things, Momenta Biennale, Montreal, Canada. Future Generation Art Prize. Palazzo Ca’Tron, Venice Biennale, Italy. Future Generation Art Prize. PinchuckArtCenter, Kiev, Ukraine. Neither Black/Red/Yellow nor Woman, Times Arts Center, Berlin, Germany. Paroxysm of Sublime. LACE, Los Angeles, USA. Videonale. Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany. Here/Now, Current visions from Colombia. Framer Framed, Amsterdam, .

2018 CIFO 2018 Grants and commissions. Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador. Front Triennial. Transformer Station, Cleveland, USA. A hole in Time. CAC La Traverse, Alfortville, France. These hands. Western Front, Vancouver, Canada. Nuevos Nombres. Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia. Bordes de la cotidianidad. El Parqueadero, Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia.

2017 Prospectif cinéma. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. A la lisière du quotidien. Jeu de Paume, Paris, France. The Flaherty Seminar. Washington Gallery of Art, USA. Medellin, une histoire colombienne. Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France. Working from the future past. Seoul Art Museum (SEMA), Seoul, Korea. A quoi rêvent les forêts ? Galerie des Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France. A Decolonial Atlas. Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA. Salon de Montrouge. Le Beffroi, Montrouge, France.

2016 Entre Caníbales. Instituto de Visión, Bogota, Colombia. A Decolonial Atlas. Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Meeting Points. La Loge, Brussels, Belgium.

2015 A Decolonial Atlas. Off Biennale Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. Post-Exotism. Newhaven Fort, diep~haven Festival, Newhaven, UK. Le Fresnoy, Mémoires de l’Imagination (BnF). Paris, France. VER. Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay. VER. Museo MAR, Mar del Plata, Argentina. VER. Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. VER. Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid, Spain. Unspeakable practices, unnatural acts. Ruangrupa, , .

2014 Tropical Uncanny. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA. Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Videobrasil winning works on Tour. Sesc Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Videobrasil winning works on Tour. Sesc Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2013 Universo vídeo I. Laboral, Gijón, Spain. Universo vídeo II. Laboral, Gijón, Spain. Film Papier. Galerie la Box, Bourges, France.

2013 Videobrasil Biennale. Sesc Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2012 Le Printemps de Septembre. ISDAT, Toulouse, France.

2010 Mouvement des atomes, mobilité des formes. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.

!3 Selected Cinema Festivals

2020 Berlinale (Forum Expanded) Punto de Vista (International competition) Cinelatino Toulouse (retrospective) European Media Art Festival (international competition) Cinéma du Réel FICUNAM

2019 Mar del Plata Film Festival (Latin American short competition) Melbourne International Film Festival (international shorts competition) Hamburg Film festival (international shorts competition) European Media Art Festival (international shorts competition) Curtas Vila do Conde (international shorts competition) Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal (retrospective) HOME Artist Weekender (retrospective) Curtocircuito (retrospective) Docs Kingdom (retrospective) Eureka Film festival (retrospectiva) Frames of Representation, ICA (London), UK Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival Forumdoc Belo Horizonte Porto/Post/Doc

2018 New York Film Festival (Projections and International Shorts Program) Toronto International Film Festival (Wavelengths) Locarno Film Festival (Pardo di Domani) Viennale (official selection) Mar del Plata Film festival (Retrospective) Mediacity International Film Festival (International Competition) Cinéma du réel (International Shorts Competition) Art of the Real, Film Society of Lincoln Center Rotterdam International Film Festival Stockholm International Film festival (International Shorts Competition) Zinebi International Film Festival (International Shorts Competition) FICValdivia (Latin American Shorts Competition) Côté Court, Pantin (National Shorts Competition) Bogoshorts (Experimental Competition) Festival de Nuevo cine de La Habana Camden International Film Festival Unorthodocs, Wexner Center for the Arts

2017 Toronto International Film Festival (Wavelengths) Doclisboa Antofadocs (Experimental Competition) Festival de Nuevo cine de La Habana (official selection) Fronteira Film Festival (Shorts Competition). Neighboring scenes: New Latin American cinema, Film Society of Lincoln Center FICUNAM Cartagena International Film Festival She makes noise, Casa Encendida (Madrid) Bogota film festival (Shorts Competition) Bogota Documentary Film Festival (National Competition)

2016 FIDMarseille (French Competition)

!4 DocLisboa (International Competition) Torino Film Festival (International Documentary Competition) Winterthur Film Festival Festival de Gijón (FICXLAB)

2013 Curtas Vila do Conde (Experimental Competition) L'Alternativa Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Palais de Tokyo Tampere Film Festival FICUNAM Antimatter Film Festival

2012 FIDMarseille 25 FPS (International Competition)

Artist Talks / Public Lectures / Teaching

2020 Masterclass, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Speaker, Invocations Program, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany. Artist Talk, NAPARDocs, Punto de Vista Festival, Pamplona, Spain.

2019 Shortlisted for a Film Studies Assistant Professor position, Berkeley University, USA. Masterclass, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá, Colombia. Masterclass, Granada Center for Visual Anthropology, Manchester, UK. Masterclass, Cinéma Moderne, Montreal, Canada. Speaker, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Fondation, . Guest Artist, VES Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Guest Artist, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal Canada. Guest Artist, Research Seminar ACTH, Ensba Lyon, France. Mentor, Assembly (Open City Documentary Film festival), London, UK.

2018 Speaker, Museo del Oro, Bogota, Colombia. Speaker, Flora Ars et Natura, Bogota, Colombia. Speaker, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Nantes Métropole, Nantes, France. Speaker, Collège de France, Paris, France. Teacher, film workshop, Cinetoro Film Festival, Cali, Colombia. Guest Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA. Jury, Haute École d’Art et de Design, Genève, Switzerland.

2017 Speaker, The theory of leaves, EMMA, Ancona, Italy. Teacher, film workshop, La Fabrique du Regard, LE BAL, Paris, France. Guest Artist, Flaherty Seminar, Colgate University, New York, USA. Mentor, Arché documentary development program, Lisboa, Portugal.

2016 Speaker, Pitzer College, Claremont, USA. Teacher, film workshop, Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia. Guest Artist, École nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy, France.

2015 Speaker, Laboratoires d ́Aubervilliers, France. Speaker, Unitec, Bogota, Colombia. Teacher, film workshop, Bachillerato 5 de Mayo, Puebla, Mexico.

2013 Speaker, Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia. Speaker, Galerie la Box, Bourges, France.

!5 Guest Artist, ENSA Bourges, France.

2012 Teacher, film workshop, Université Catholique de Lille, France. Guest Artist, Paris 7, France.

2009 Monitor, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France.

Artist Writings and Publications

2017 The Liar, in Permanent collection II, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA.

2016 The Obsidian King, in Spike art quarterly, Vienna, Austria. Celestial Bodies, on Patricio Guzmán´s cinema, in Terremoto Magazine, Mexico city, Mexico. Avital Ronell´s Crackwars, duuuradio.fr

2013 Les mythologies absentes, in Les cahiers du post-diplôme, EESI, Bourges, France. Histoire d’un vampire, in Film Papier, Galerie la Box, Bourges, France

2011 De l'Amérique, in ENCOURS, Les Presses du Réel, Paris, France. Place ! Éditions Happy few and gallery Edouard Manet de Gennevilliers, Berlin, Germany.

Selected Bibliography

2020 Louis Rogers, “Interview with Laura Huertas Millán”, Tank Magazine Issue 82

2019 Justine Smith, “Deconstructing Colonial Cinema with Ethnographic Fiction”, Hyperallergic, Dec.25 Sebastián Abril, “El ecosistema del arte”, Cero en conducta, Nov.1 Rosa Boshier, “The Haunting Image of Home Amid Climate Change”, Hyperallergic, Oct.15 Charlotte Selb, “Entrevues, Laura Huertas Millan”, Revue 24 images, Dec.19

2018 Tony Pipolo, “Strangest things, on New York Film Festival”, Artforum, Oct. 3 Matt Turner, “The fabric of freedom: LHM’s ethnographic filmmaking”, Sight&Sound, Sept. 6 Laura Davis, “Laura Huertas Millàn’s Ethnographic Fiction and Its Influences”, Mubi Notebook, Sept.4 Leo Goldsmith, “Swiss Watch, films at Locarno Film Festival” Artforum, Aug. 20 Emmanuelle Lequeux, “Interview with Laura Huertas Millán” Beaux Arts Magazine, May issue. Mathilde Villeneuve, “L’image tiers de Laura Huertas Millán”, AOC, Ap. 27 Ela Bittencourt, “Redefining Women : The Films of Laura Huertas Millán”, Lyssaria, Apr. 7 Erika Balsom, “Speaking into Being: The Ethnographic Fictions of Laura Huertas Millán”, the spring song. le chant du printemps. solo exhibition booklet, Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France.

2017 Jesse Cumming, “ The Ties that bind: on recent works by LHM”, Cinema Scope #73 Pedro Morais, “Les fictions alternatives de Laura Huertas Millán”, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Dec. 8 Lina Rodriguez in conversation with Laura Huertas Millán, “A Sense of Otherness”, TIFF.net,. Nov. 23 Mónica Delgado, “La Libertad by Laura Huertas Millán”, Desistfilm, Sept 19 Dan Schindel, “Standout Shorts from the Toronto International Film Festival”, Hyperallergic, Sept. 13 Michael Sicinski, “TIFF 2017. Wavelengths Preview: The Short Stack”, Mubi Notebook, Sept 7 Ela Bittencourt, “Interview with Laura Huertas Millan”, Kinoscope, Jan 25 Ela Bittencourt, “Is Trauma lived in solitude?”, Brooklyn Magazine, Jan 23

!6 2016 Leo Goldsmith, “Festivals: Doclisboa 2016”, Film Comment, Dec 7 Julien Bécourt, “L ́impermanence des choses”, Chronicart, July 27 Michael Pattison, “5 five ghostly finds from FIDMarseille”, Sight & Sound, July 22 Cristina Piccino, “Il cinema nel lato segreto della realtà”, Il Manifesto, July 23

2013 Amanda Rueda, “Cine Colombiano del exilio: Tres miradas al país desde afuera”, Cuadernos del cine Colombiano #52 Clarisse Fabre, “Dans les festivals et les salles de cinéma, l’émergence du cinéma colombien”, Le Monde, June 16 Maximiliano Cruz, “Aequador de Laura Huertas Millán” , Ficunam catalogue, Mexico city, Mexico. Pascale Pronnier, “Portraits d’artistes: Laura Huertas Millán” Slicker #6, Brussels, Belgium.

2012 Daniel Salamanca Nuñez, “Exilios volontarios: Laura Huertas Millán y Ana Judith Haugwitz”, Arcadia, Bogota, Colombia, December 14 . Gilles Grand, “Voyage en la Terre Autrement Dite”, FID Marseille catalogue, Marseille, France Anne Marquez, “Aequador”, Panorama 14, Elasticités, Les Presses du Réel, Paris, France Julien Petit, “Lógicas del Fragmento”, solo show at Alliance Française catalogue, Bogota, Colombia.

2010 Nicolas Feodoroff, “San Laisser de trace. Entretien”, FIDMarseille journal, July. Marc Desgrandchamps “Mouvement des atomes, mobilité des formes”, Catalogue, Beaux-Arts de Paris les éditions, Paris, France.

Filmography

Jiíbie, 25 mins, 2019 The Labyrinth, 21 mins, 2018 jeny303, 6 mins, 2018 La Libertad, 29 mins, 2017 Sol Negro (Black Sun), 43 mins, 2016 Aequador, 19 mins, 2012 Journey to a land otherwise known, 23 mins, 2011 Sans laisser de trace, 3 mins, 2009

Distribution Studio Arturo Lucia, Paris, France L’Agence du court-métrage, Paris, France Le Fresnoy, Studio National des arts contemporains, Roubaix, France Evidencia films, Bogota, Colombia. Les Films du Worso, Paris, France.

Art Collections Fondation ENSBA, Paris, France Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, USA Départements des Hauts-de-Seine, France Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France Département de Seine-Saint-Denis, France FRAC Lorraine, France Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA Banco de la República de Colombia !7