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I am molten matter sliding from the core of Earth to tell you interior things - Galeria Sardenberg (São Paulo, BR)
Quando o segundo sol chegar / um cometa nos teus olhos - Planetário do Ibirapuera (São Paulo, BR)
Quebrante - OCA - 14th Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
Curupira e a máquina do destino - COP 30 - Museu do Amanhã (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
Manos Negativas, manos kefzeadas, Quando o segundo sol chegar / um cometa nos teus olhos, Quebrante, Curupira e a máquina do destino - Le Fresnoy-studio national des arts contemporains (Turcoing, FR)


SOLO
2025
   Sala de Vídeo Janaina Wagner – Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
A comet in your eyes – Sursock Museum (Beirut, LB)
2024   Quando o segundo sol chegar (Cometa) – Centro Cultural do Cariri (Crato, BR)
2023   Cinema Caverna – Lanterna Mágica – Projeto Vênus (São Paulo, BR)
Baleia Fantasma – Pivô (São Paulo, BR)
2015    Decupagem/ Crônica de um final anunciado - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (Ribeirão Preto, BR)

GROUP
2025    At the End of a World - Färgfabriken Konsthall (Stockholm, SE)
2024    Era uma vez: história do céu e da terra – Pinacoteca de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
Ensaios de Uma Coleção – Galeria Municipal do Porto (Porto, PT)
Summertime – SUPERCOLLIDER - Brand Library (Los Angeles, USA)
Imaginar futuros com gestos silenciosos – Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (Montevideo, UY)
2023    22ª Bienal SESC Videobrasil - SESC 24 de Maio (São Paulo, BR)
2022    Ópera Citoplasmática – Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, BR)
Aliens are temporary - Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Berlin, DE)
2021    Thinking beyond: moving-images for a post-pandemic world – Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence, IT)
Cuando no hay sombra es mediodía - Nube Gallery (Santa Cruz, BO)
A natural history of ruins - Pivô (São Paulo, BR)
2020    Casa Carioca – MAR Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
2019     Panorama 21 - Les revenants - Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Turcoing, FR)
2018     Festival Mondes Possibles - Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (Paris, FR)
(São Paulo, BR)

Ensaio de Tração - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
2016   Permanências e destruições - Torre H (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
Bolsa Pampulha - Museu de Arte da Pampulha (Belo Horizonte, BR)
2015    Hipótese e horizonte - Observatório - (São Paulo, BR)
2014    4º Prêmio EDP nas Artes – Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, BR)
Estado de Suspensão – Coletor (São Paulo, BR)



FILMOGRAPHY
2025    WHEN THE SECOND SUN ARRIVES / A COMET IN YOUR EYES, 14’ 
Brazil - Produced by Janaina Wagner, Centro Cultural do Cariri (BR) and Sursock Museum (LB)
2024    
MANOS NEGATIVAS, MANOS KEFZEADAS, 16’ 
Brazil – Produced by Janaina Wagner and Museu Judaico de São Paulo (BR)
QUEBRANTE, 23’
Brazil – Produced by 22a Bienal Sesc Videobrasil and Janaina Wagner (BR) 
2022    GREEN FLESH, GREEN FLASH, 9’
Brazil / United Kingdom – Produced by Gasworks London and the Triangle Network (UK)
2021    CURUPIRA E A MÁQUINA DO DESTINO 24’40’’
Brazil / France – Produced by Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains (FR)
2020    MERCÚRIO METEORA 3’
Brazil – Independent production
CÃES MARINHEIROS 7’
Brazil – Independent production
2019    LICANTROPIA 27'
Brazil / France – Produced by Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains (FR)
2018    VENTURA 12'32’’
France – Independent production
2017    LOBISOMEM 18'16’’
Brazil -  Produced by Bolsa Pampulha, Minas gerais (BR), Brazil
2016    FARANDOLE 24’
Brazil – Independent production
2016    CRIATURA 10'
Brazil – Independent production
2015    AVISO DE INCÊNDIO 30'
Brazil – Independent production
2014    PROGRESSO 4'
Brazil – Independent production
TERRENO 9'15''
Brazil – Independent production
2014    MORTINHOS 8'
Iceland – Independent production
2011    A DOENÇA DA MORTE 10'
Brazil – Independent production

FILM FESTIVALS
2025    Mostra de Cinema da 14a Bienal de Arquietura de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
47th Douarnenez Film Festival (Douarnenez, France)
13 Festival de cinéma ibérique et latino américain (Grenoble, France)
Festival SinéDoc (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
Riga Pasaules Film Festival (Riga, Latvia)
La Trilogie Transamazonienne De Janaina Wagner - Cinédoc Paris Films Coop – Le Grand Action (Paris, FR)
FICValdivia - Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (Valdivia, CL)
Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival (Philadelphia, USA)
18th Iran International Documentary Film Festival - Cinema Verite (Tehran, IR)
Docudays UA IHRDFF (Kyiv, UKR)
Mostra Ecofalante (São Paulo, BR)
2024    Berlinale Forum Expanded (Berlin, DE)
NeMaf - Seoul International ALT Cinema & New Media Festival (Seoul, KR)
Women Make Waves Int'l Film Festival (Taiwan, CHN)
RIDM - Montreal International Documentary Festival Festival (Montreal, CAN)
Olhar do Norte – Teatro Amazonas (Manaus, BR)
Tramway Film Festival - Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (Warsaw, PL)
Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes - Panorama (Tiradentes, BR)
FICCI - Cartagena Film Festival (Cartagena, CO)
DOXA Film Festival (Vancouver, CA)
Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival (Ljubljana, SL)
Las Palmas de Gran Canarias (Las Palmas, ES)
Videoex (Zürich, AU)
Vila do Conde (Vila do Conde, PT)
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano  - La Habana Film Festival (Havana, CUB)
XV Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife (Recife, BR)
Forum DOC (Belo Horizonte, BR)
Kinoforum (São Paulo, BR)
2023
   Philadelphia Latino Film Festival - LOLA Shorts (Philadelphia, USA)
London Short Film Festival – ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, GB)
Restrospectiva do Cinema Brasileiro - CineSESC (São Paulo, BR)
2022    Forum DOC – Festival Internacional de Documentário de Belo Horizonte (Belo Horizonte, BR)
Antropocenicas – Conference + film projection - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, PT)
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF (Bucharest, RO)
IndieCork Festival (Cork, IR)
Festival do Rio (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
29th Valdivia International Film Festival (Valdivia, CL)
Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (Batum, GE)
Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona - Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (Barcelona, ES)
25 FPS festival - Short Film Competition (Zagreb, SL)
Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK)
Mostra Ecofalante – Latin America Competition (São Paulo, Belo Horizonte e Rio de Janeiro, BR)
Helsinki Film Festival- Short Film Competition (Helsinki, FI)
Concorto Film Festival - Supernature, curated by Claudia Praolini (Concorto, IT)
Curtas Vila do Conde - Short Film Competition (Vila do Conde, PT)
Ecrã Festival de Ciema Experimental - Short Film Competition (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
Olhar de Cinema - Short Film Competition (Curutiba, BR)
Short Waves Festival - Short Film Competition (Poznań, PL)
Vienna Shorts -  Short Film Competition (Vienna, AT)
Beira Film Festival (Rondônia, BR)
Las Palmas de Grand Canaria Film Festival - Short Film Competition – Award for Best Film (La Palma, ES)
Kino Otok International Film Festival (Isola, SL)
Kino Pavasaris – Vilnius International Film Festival - Short Film Competition (Vilnius, LT)
Glasgow Short Film Festival - Eco-Spectrality: Residual Fabulations (Glasgow, UK)
Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes - Short Film Competition (Tiradentes, BR)
2020    Simultan Festival XV – Unseen (Timisoara, RO)
Emma Goldman Anarchist Film Festival (New York City, USA)
2019    
FID Campus - Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille (Marseille, FR)
2018    10 Semana de Cinema (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
JANAINA WAGNER ©2025