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About

Awards

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 Gaze, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, and Videoex, and exhibited in art contexts like CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel and Askeaton Contemporary Arts.

 

Her work has received support from the Arts Council of Ireland, including Film Bursary Awards, Film Project Awards, and Film Agility Awards. 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).

2024

Arts Council Ireland

Film Bursary Award

Atelier 105, Light Cone, Paris

Post-production residency

2023

Arts Council 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 Ireland

Film Agility Award 

 

2021

Arts Council Ireland

Film Project Award 

Arts Council Ireland

Film Bursary Award

Videoex Experimental film & Video Festival Zurich, Switzerland

"Nightshades"
First Price Swiss Competition

2020

Arts Council Ireland

Film - Professional Development Award 

Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema

"and a porcelain cat"

First Price ex aequo

Videoex Experimental film & Video Festival Zurich, Switzerland

"and a porcelain cat"

First Price Swiss Competition ex aequo

MUFF Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

"and a porcelain cat"

Honorable Mention

Super Off International Super 8 Film Festival

"and a porcelain cat"

Honorable Mention

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