Bio

Eliane Lima involvement with images began in 1994 when she met the Brazilian philosopher Claudio Ulpiano. Lima holds the Bachelor of Arts Degree from SUNY Binghamton and the Masters of Arts from San Francisco Art Institute. Lima’s work has been shown at Liverpool Biennial (UK), SFMOMA (SF), Victoria Theater (SF), Anthology Film Archives (NY), Pacific Film Archives (SF), Brazil, Cuba, Canada, and elsewhere. During her SFAI years, she began to explore video-installations that have a relationship with her films. Her MFA installation “To George Kuchar,” participated in the ArtPad 2012 resulting in attention by the local press. Last summer, Lima was the visiting artist for the Summer Workshop in Cinema at the Creative Growth Art Center and collaborated in curating students films for the 2012 Telluride Film Festival. Lima also participated to the
Photovoice project at the Niroga Institute as photography instructor. Currently, Lima is working as teaching artist for Palo Alto Art Center, collaborating to Prelinger Archive and San Francisco Film Society ‘s Film House and Filmmakers in the Classroom Programs.

Lima was the recipient of SF Weekly Masterminds 2012.

Publications

• The Journal of Short Film, Volume 27, 2012.
• SFAI Graduate Catalog 2012.
• Centro de Estudos Claudio Ulpiano website, essay: Fantastic Spaces in Cinema, Dario Argento’s Suspiria.
• Website Ragazine, Leonora, May 2011.
• Website Ragazine, Photography series “Ely Park Portraits,” January 2010.
• Centro de Estudos Claudio Ulpiano website, essay: Avant Garde Film & Video Analysis: Bill Viola, “Select Works.” 
• The Journal of Short Film, Volume 17, 2009.
• Inside Binghamton University, Volume 30, 2009.

WINNER

• Mostra do Filme Livre 2013, Best Short Film.
• Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Film, SFAI, class 2012.
• 5th SF Weekly Artopia Masterminds 2012.
• HollyShorts Film Festival 2010, Best Student Film and Audience Choice.
  

Special Screenings

• Collective Video Installation (Djinn) at The Lab, 10:22:38, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
• OTHER CINEMA screening at the ATA, December 22th, San Francisco, CA
• Halloween: Spook-tacular screening at the ATA, October 17th, San Francisco, CA.
• UC Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, October 3rd, 2012.
  
• GAZE Film Series at ATA, San Francisco, CA, August 25th, 2012.
• Periwinkle Cinema JUNE SPECTACULAR, 2012.
• EFF Portland 2012 after party Boom Bap! May 24, 2012.
• UNICAMP, Conference “Deleuze and Politics and Resistence and”, May 2012, Brazil.
• SFMOMA, SFAI – MFA Film Screening 2012, San Francisco, CA.
• Graduate Open Studios 2012, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
• Public Works, SF Weekly Masterminds 2012 party, San Francisco, CA.
• SFMOMA, SFAI Film and Video Screening 2011, San Francisco, CA.
• Black Hole Cinematheque, “The Dawning Of The Age Of Kuchar! a birthday party for the twins,” August 30th 2011, Oakland, CA.
• Short & Sweet 2011, parking lot of Lyndell’s Bakery, Cambridge, MA.
• Midpoint, SFAI Continuing MFA event 2011, San Francisco, CA.
• Liverpool Biennial 2010, Wolstenholme Creative Space Program, Hosted by ZFF, Liverpool, UK.
• Soho House Screening Series, SXM, Feb 2010. The Series of the best of International films in New York.
• 2009 Galapagos Zero Film Festival Launch Party, Brooklyn, NY.

Official Selections

• 12th Mostra do Filme Livre 2013, CCBB São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasilia, Brazil.
• NY NewFilmmakers 2012 Fall Fest series, Anthology Film Archives, New York.
• 2012 Canada Zero Film Festival, Toronto and Montreal, Canada.
• 2012 Oakland Underground Film Festival, Oakland, CA.
• NY NewFilmmakers Spring 2012 Series, Anthology Film Archives, New York.
• Bay Area Student Film Festival 2012, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, 2012.
  
• CROSSROADS Film Festival  2012 , San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA.
• 11th Mostra do Filme Livre 2012, CCBB São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasilia, Brazil.
• Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, 2011, Austin, Texas.
• 2011 Sacramento International Film Festival.
• 6th Annual Hollyshorts Film Festival, 2010, Los Angeles, CA.
  
• Zero Film Festival 2009, New York and Los Angeles, CA.
• NY NewFilmmakers 2009 Summer Series, September 1^th, 2009, Anthology Film Archives, New York.
• The 7^th International Non-Budget Cuban Film Festival, 2009 Humberto Solas Festival del Cine Pobre, Cuba.
• II Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Camagüey 2009, Cuba.
• 2009 Emerging Filmmakers Series, Rochester, NY.
• 2008 Magic Lantern International Film Festival, Binghamton, NY.

Photography Exhibits

• Public Works, SF Weekly Masterminds 2012 party, San Francisco, CA.
• Diego Rivera Gallery, 800 Chestnut Street, Aug 2011, San Francisco, CA.
• Still Lights Gallery, 800 Chestnut Street, Aug 2010, San Francisco, CA.
• The Elsie B. Rosefsky Memorial Art Gallery, Studio Art Student Show, 2010, Binghamton, NY.
• Jungle Science Gallery, Student Photography Exhibit, Dec 4^th, 2009, Binghamton, NY.
• Old Train Station Gallery, EXPOSED Photo Show, May 1^st, 2009, Binghamton, NY.

Installations

• ArtPad 2012, Phoenix Hotel, Featured Project at room 55, San Francisco, CA.
• Phoenix Hotel, Installation To George Kuchar at room 14, SFAI MFA show 2012, San Francisco, CA.
• SWELL Gallery, Phantasmagoria collective installation, February 2012, San Francisco, CA.
• Galeria Casa dos Correios, Dec 1999-January 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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