Biography

Vasco Diogo was born in Lisbon in 1970. He has a degree in Sociology by Universidade Nova of Lisbon, a Master degree in Social Sciences by University of Lisbon and a PhD in Communication Sciences by Universidade Nova of Lisbon, with the thesis: "Video: specificity, hybridity and experimentation" (scholarship by FCT, 2008). From 2008 to 2020 he was a professor at University of Beira Interior teaching mainly around cinema directing, new cinemas and experimental cinema. After being co-founder of Projecto Teatral, works, since 1998 in performance, video art and experimental cinema around themes such as self-presentation, truth and manipulation. In experimental cinema he has won several international awards, specially with the film: "anexperimentalviralvlog - the movie remix # !. He has shown his works in several exhibitions and festivals namely (among others):

Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, USA Experimental Brasil, Brasil Monstra Lisbon Animated Film Festival, Portugal Bogotá Experimental Film Festival/CineAutopsia, Colombia Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology, USA Chroma Art Film Festival, USA London Experimental, UK Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, USA InShadow, Portugal VASTLAB Experimental - VLX5, USA Animaze, Canada AniMate - Australian Animation Film Festival, Australia Australian XR Festival, Australia Bridge Video, USA Nur Box Experimental Film Festival, Canada MINA Smartphone Film Festival, Australia Fotogenia, Mexico International Experimental Film Festival, Greece Supernova Digital Animation Festival, USA Super 9 Mobile Film Fest, Portugal The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, USA Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Mexico STIFF: Seattle True Independent Film Festival, USA ARTBOX.Project, New York 1.0, Armory Art Weeks, NY, USA Altered Esthetics Film Festival, USA CINESONIKA Festival - Celebrating the Soundtrack, USA Moviate Underground Film Festival, USA Cancan Exhibition Competition, LemoArt Gallery, Berlin, Germany MAD GALLERY MILAN, BIENNIAL, Italy OXYGEN - FRAGMENTED CITIES+IDENTITIES, Bogotá, Colombia BRAGA INTERNATIONAL VIDEO DANCE FESTIVAL, Portugal Filmideo 2017, Index Art Center, Newark, USA Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival, USA Girona Film Festival / Experimental Art Film, Spain AVANCA - International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia, Portugal Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Boulder, Colorado, USA Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA, Argentina BODIES+CITIES SKIN, international art exhibition of photography, video art, installation, painting and performance art, Venice, Italy It's Liquid Experimental Art Architecture and Design Festival, Rome, Italy OXYGEN - Rome, It's LIQUID Contemporary Video Art and Performing Art Festival, Italy BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain Experimental Forum, LA, USA CÓDEC / FESTIVAL DE VÍDEO Y CREACIONES SONORAS, Mexico City, Mexico Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France/Germany Media Art Festival, Friesland, Netherlands

Main awards:

"Teatro", Projecto Teatral, Goethe Institut, Lisbon, 2003; Award Acarte/Maria Madalena Azeredo Perdigão by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2003

anexperimentalviralvlog - the movie remix # ! European Cinematography Awards, 2017 - Best Experimental Film American Filmatic Arts Awards, USA, 2017 - Best Short Video Art / Web / New Media FICOCC # 11, Five Continents International Film Festival, Venezuela, 2018 - Best Video Art LA Shorts Awards, USA, 2018 - Best Experimental Global Film Festival Awards, USA, 2018 - Best Experimental Short Film World Film Fair, USA, 2019 - Best Short Experimental Film Award Official Selection Rome Film Awards, Italy, 2019 - Best Short Experimental Film Award

may I ? remix # Oregon International Film Awards, USA, 2018 - Experimental Film Competition, Platinum Award

BAKALU STUDIO COMPOSITION New York Film Awards, USA, 2017, Best Experimental

Super Cut Free Way World Fest-Houston International Film & Video Festival, USA, 2019, Bronze Remi, Film & Video Art Around Film Festival (ARFF International) // Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2018 - Best Experimental Film New York Film Awards, USA, 2018 - Best Experimental Film Festigious, USA, 2018 - Best Experimental Film

1,2,3, Once Again FICSAM International Mental Health Film Festival, Portugal, 2018: Audience Award - Best Experimental Aphrodite Film Awards, NYC, USA, 2018 - Best Experimental Documentary Short Film 52 Weeks Film Festival, USA, 2018 - winner Best International Documentary

Walkscape Hollywood Gold Awards, USA, 2020 - Winner Experimental Film New York Movie Awards, USA, 2020 - Best Music Video IFS L.A. FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2020 - Best Experimental Film Florence Film Awards, Italy, 2020 - Best Experimental Film European Cinematography Awards, 2019, Best Experimental Film

Mixed Movie Sarajevo Bridge Fest, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2020 - Cell Phone Films, Social Media Short Forms, Video, Trailers: Overall Annual Winner American Filmatic Arts Awards, USA, 2020 - Best Short Web and New Media Festigious Los Angeles, USA, 2019 - Best Experimental Film

Paint On Paint # 1 The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, USA, 2021 - Best Animation Short

Paint On Paint # 3 New York Film Awards Official Selection, USA, 2020 - Best Experimental Film

Paint On Paint # 5 Milan Gold Awards, Italy, 2021 - Gold Award: Sound Design Berlin Indie Film Festival 2021, Germany, 2021 - Best Sound Design

Paint On Paint # 6 Oniros Film Awards® - New York, USA, 2021 - Best Sound Design Berlin Indie Film Festival 2021, Germany, 2021 - Best Experimental Film

Magic Magic Mirror London Movie Awards, UK, 2021 - Best Experimental

Paint On Paint # 1-8 Toronto Indie Film Festival, Canada, 2023 - Winner Experimental Film Liber Films International Festival, Greece, 2023 - Best Soundtrack

Anima # 1 Denver Underground Film Festival, USA, 2023 - 3rd Best Experimental Film Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival, Canada, 2023 - Best Animation Film

Old New Age Purple Sky International Film Festival, Germany, 2023 - Best Mobile Film New York Movie Awards, USA, 2023 - Best Sound Design Ponza Film Awards Italy, Italy, April, 2023 - Best Experimental Film
- IMDb mini biography by: Vasco Diogo