Óscar Vincentelli
Locarno Residency 2022 | Venezuela
Locarno Residency 2022 | Venezuela
Oscar Vincentelli (Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, 1989) is a filmmaker and visual artist. His work is a cross between documentary film, experimental ethnography and the visual and aural arts.
With his latest short film La sangre es blanca, he won the Flash Competition award at FIDMarseille and the Penínsulas Award at Curtocircuíto Festival. He is currently developing his feature film Se van sus naves, produced by Lejos lejos and selected in FIDLab at FIDMarseille 2022.
His works have been programmed at international festivals such as Locarno, San Sebastian, FIDMarseille, Message2Man, FIC Valdivia, Malaga, D'A or Playdoc, Mar de Plata Film Festival, Jeonju Film Festival, Viennale and Curtocircuito among others. He's also been selected at Berlinale Talents and Academia del Cine Español.
2015 O tremor
2016 Lenda negra
2018 Violeta + Guillermo
2020 La Sangre es blanca
Production: Elisa Celda / Lejos Lejos
Two indigenous Eyeri twins embark on the Pinta, returning to Europe after Columbus’ first voyage, with a mission: to inseminate the land of foreigners. The plan is simple: one must die and become seed, and the other cultivate it.
As a Venezuelan immigrant I feel a responsibility to generate new historical narratives and to inhabit them with a change of point of view, never before treated in cinema, of the first American Indians to discover Europe. I want to portray the Eyerís as active subjects who decided to explore a new territory, taking advantage of the technology of foreign ships.
