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Anna Dória

Born November 22, 1994 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (age 31)

Anna Dória is a Brazilian writer, poet, performer, and filmmaker with an MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts. Her experimental practice moves through performance, poetry, moving image, and sound, using the body, noise, language, and repetition as material. Her work is drawn to fragments, unstable memories, and forms of excavation, searching for what survives, mutates, or escapes within the fractu…

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Living Fish

Living Fish · 2025

A few days before the apocalypse, a lonely young woman has a revelation: she has been wrongly trying to fit in on Earth, as she is actually a sea creature.

Ana & Oto

Ana & Oto · 2025

In Rio de Janeiro, two friends who are almost codependent wander around alienated and afraid of boredom. Meanwhile, a filmmaker investigates these two young people.

Somewhere Else

Six immigrant women in Los Angeles reflect on intuition, perception, and the mythologies of the city. A collage of documentary footage, voiced recollections, and diaristic entries shapes lived experience and speculation into a shared vision of Los Angeles.

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Living Fish

Living Fish · 2025

A few days before the apocalypse, a lonely young woman has a revelation: she has been wrongly trying to fit in on Earth, as she is actually a sea creature.

Writer

Ana & Oto

Ana & Oto · 2025

In Rio de Janeiro, two friends who are almost codependent wander around alienated and afraid of boredom. Meanwhile, a filmmaker investigates these two young people.

Ana

Somewhere Else

Six immigrant women in Los Angeles reflect on intuition, perception, and the mythologies of the city. A collage of documentary footage, voiced recollections, and diaristic entries shapes lived experience and speculation into a shared vision of Los Angeles.

Writer