Luis Arnías is a filmmaker and artist from Venezuela who currently lives and works in Boston, MA. In 2009, he graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and in 2020 he received his Masters in Film/Video from Milton Avery Graduate School at Bard College. His films have screened at MoMa Doc Fortnight, TIFF, Punto de Vista, New York Film Festival, Berlin Critics’ Week (Woche Der Kritik) and BlackStar Film Festival. He was a fellow at the FSC at Harvard University, the recipient of the Herb Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship 2022 and most recently 2023 Boston Artadia Awardee.
“Bisagras is a film exploring the enduring here and elsewhere of black consciousness. Finding a connection through the film’s emulsion and my skin, Bisagras holds my experience as a person of Afro-Caribbean descent during a visit to the House of Slaves in Gorée Island, Senegal and the port of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. In these places I dare to imagine my ancestors’ history of the journey of African slaves to America and draw a line that goes through me.” – Luis Arnías
Bisagras will play as part of the Shorts Program: Deposited in This Land of Strangers
