About
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. Her films investigate everyday reality and foreground alternative modes of perception and experience through experimental documentary and process-driven methods.
Having grown up in Switzerland, Juana 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).
Alongside her artistic practice, Juana has developed experience in moving image and experimental film programming, artist support and workshop facilitation. She has contributed to the experimental film community through her work with festivals including Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival and Lausanne Underground Film Festival (LUFF).
by aemi Co-Director Daniel Fitzpatrick
Awards & Recognition
2025 Istanbul Int. Experimental Film Festival, Turkey
"Alicia", Best Experimental Documentary
2022 International Festival of Analog/Experimental
Cinema- KINOSKOP (Belgrade, Serbia)
"Anastatica", Audience Award
2021 Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival
(Zurich, Switzerland)
"Nightshades", First Prize
2020 Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema (Paris, France)
"and a porcelain cat", First Prize ex aequo
2020 Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival (Zurich, Switzerland)
"and a porcelain cat", First Prize ex aequo
2020 MUFF Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
"and a porcelain cat", Honourable Mention
2020 Super Off International Super 8 Film Festival
"and a porcelain cat", Honourable Mention
Artist Residencies
2025 BAICC, Toronto, Canada
International Artistic Residency for Filmmaking, developed by (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico in collaboration with Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto (LIFT)
2025 · ACA, Askeaton, Ireland
Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Artist Research Residency
2024 Light Cone, Paris, France
Atelier 105 Post-Production Residency
2024 Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
Gypsy Ray Residency
2014 National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts,
Beijing, China
Common Ground Interdisciplinary Artist Residency
Grants & Artist Support
2026 The Arts Council of Ireland
Film Project Award
2026 The Arts Council of Ireland
Film Bursary Award
2026 Culture Ireland
Regular Grant
2025 The Arts Council of Ireland
Visual Art Bursary Award
2025 ArtLinks
Bursary Award
2024 The Arts Council of Ireland
Film Bursary Award
2023 The Arts Council of Ireland
Film Project Award
2022 The Arts Council of Ireland
Film Agility Award
2021 The Arts Council of Ireland
Film Project Award
2021 The Arts Council of Ireland
Film Bursary Award
2020 The Arts Council of Ireland
Film Professional Development Award
2020 The Complex
Studio Subsidy