María Cañas

(Sevilla, 1972)

 

Cultural agitator, audiovisual iconoclast, and arsonist of minds. She practices video-guerilla, which she introduces into topics and prejudices to blow them apart with risastencia: the colourful humour of all connected multitudes as a strategy of insurgency or, at very least, of resistance and survival. Stimulation committed to the archive and audiovisual detritus as tools for cultural development, with the need to educate in the agitation and recycling of our imaginations to transform ourselves into more free, critical, and creative beings. She is a staunch defender of the liberation of our imaginations and culture as a collective construction.

María Cañas holds a degree in Fine Arts, she studied for her Doctorate in Aesthetics and the History of Philosophy from the University of Seville, and a Masters in Digital Post-Production from the C.E.A. She directs Animalario TV Producciones, a creation space dedicated to cultural activism, recycling, appropriation, artistic experimentation, and training in search of cultivating an internal flame. 

Her work is shared online, and has been shown at multiple festivals, conferences, events, centres of art, museums, self-managed spaces, universities, as well as national and international galleries. Among the many awards she has received, of particular note are: The ALMA Screenwriting Award for La Cosa Vuestra, Alcine, Madrid, Festhome Distribution Award, Alcances, Cádiz, 2 special mentions at FIVA, Buenos Aires,  Best Film Award at EXPO LIO ‘92, Festival Márgenes, Madrid and the  X Films Award for La Cosa Vuestra at the Punto de Vista Festival, Pamplona.