TEDDY WILLIAMS 

Nov. 2 2021

Virtual Event

Eduardo Williams (b. 1987) is a filmmaker from Buenos Aires and an alum of Universidad del Cine (University of Cinematography). In 2012 he joined Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (National Studio of Contemporary Art) in France. His short films Que je tombe tout le temps? (2013) and Pude ver un puma (2011) were shown at Cinéfondation and Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival. In 2014 he had his premiere of Tôi quên rồi! at FID Marseille. He won the Pardo d’oro for Best Film at filmmakers of the present at the 69th Locarno Film Festival with his first feature film called El auge del Humano in 2016. The film was latter shown in film festival programs including Wavelengths (Toronto International Film Festival), Projections (New York Film Festival), Tate Modern, and many more. In the same year he directed Allons-y! for the festival of moving images Hors Pistes at Pompidou Center, in Paris. In 2018, with the help of the Center of Contemporary Art Geneva, he was able to produce his last short film, Parsi, which was screened at Berlinale – Forum expanded, Tate Modern, Julia Stoscheck Collection, Lincoln Center and many other festivals and museums. In 2019, he received the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. The Film Study Center at Harvard University awarded him with a Robert E. Fulton III fellowship in non-fiction filmmaking for 2020-21.

 

MassArt Ciné Culture Screening Series | Fall 2021 | Teddy Williams

Teddy Williams. Stills from Pude Ver Un Puma , 2018, courtesy of the filmmaker.