Jazmín López
My Dear Valentín

 

 

29 January 15

 

Leones (2012), film still, Courtesy the artist
Leones (2012), film still, Courtesy the artist

 

Argentinian filmmaker and painter Jazmín López is the first guest of KW Residencies in 2015. As part of her work at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, she invites film professionals and the general public for a preview reading of her new film script My Dear Valentín. The reading is an open rehearsal as well as an invitation for feedback at this central phase of the creative process.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1984, the artist Jazmín López graduated from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and worked with Jorge Macchi and Guillermo Kuitca as tutors of her work in Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. Her film Leones (2012) has been presented at the 69th Venice Biennale (Venice, IT), Vancouver International Film Festival (Vancouver, CA), Viennale (Vienna), Sevilla Festival De Cine (Seville, ES), Torino Film Festival (Turin, IT), New Directors/New Films at The Museum of Modern Art (New York, US), Centre Pompidou (Paris), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), and many other venues.