Juana Robles (b. 1983, Tortosa, Spain) is a Kilkenny-based artist-filmmaker. Her work, often created with analog techniques like 16mm and Super 8, explores the body, identity, memory, and resilience through immersive, tactile cinema. Drawing from performance and ritual, she blurs personal and collective histories.
Juana has studied at the Lucerne School of Art and Design and Zurich University of the Arts. Her films have been shown at festivals worldwide, including Perth International Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich, and exhibited in art contexts like CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow and Askeaton Contemporary Arts. Single works by Juana Robles are distributed by Light Cone (Paris) and Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris).
She is also a co-founder of Out of Focus, an initiative in Kilkenny dedicated to avant-garde cinema, and has contributed to the experimental film community through her roles at festivals like Videoex and the Lausanne Underground Film Festival (LUFF).
2025
Istanbul Int. Experimental Film Festival, Turkey
"Alicia"
Best Experimental Documentary
2024
Arts Council of Ireland
Film Bursary Award
Atelier 105, Light Cone, Paris
Post-production residency
2023
Arts Council of Ireland
Film Project Award
2022
International Festival of Analog/Experimental Cinema KINOSKOP
"Anastatica"
Audience Award
Experimental Film Festival Barcelona
"Anastatica"
Best experimental short
Arts Council of Ireland
Film Agility Award
2021
Arts Council of Ireland
Film Project Award
Arts Council Ireland
Film Bursary Award
Videoex Experimental film & Video Festival Zurich, Switzerland
"Nightshades"
First Prize Swiss Competition
2020
Arts Council of Ireland
Professional Development Award
Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema
"and a porcelain cat"
First Prize ex aequo
Videoex Experimental film & Video Festival Zurich, Switzerland
"and a porcelain cat"
First Prize Swiss Competition ex aequo
MUFF Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
"and a porcelain cat"
Honourable Mention
Super Off International Super 8 Film Festival
"and a porcelain cat"
Honourable Mention