Digital Ashes
About

A Bricolage of
Found Digital Files



Film/Video
Vesuvio (2025)
Nos cortaron las piernas (2024)
Digital Ashes (2022)
VAI! (2020)
Aqueles que se foram (2019)
Dummies (2017)
Installation
Exponential Extensions (2023) 
Sound
Noite Imersiva (2024)
S&RC (2021) Albums (2016-2018)

Text
REVISTA/REVISTA (2017)



artistic cv
EDUCATION

October 2019 – April 2022
Master of Arts – Digital Media (University of the Arts Bremen, Germany). DAAD scholarship holder.

March 2015 – November 2018
Bachelor – Film and Audiovisual Media (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil).
Bruno Christofoletti Barrenha
*13.11.1996 in Rio Claro, Brazil*

LANGUAGES
Portuguese: Native​​
German: Advanced C1
English: Advanced C1
Spanish: Upper intermediate B2


WORK IN FILM

2025 World premiere of the short film Vesuvio. 

2024 World premiere of the short film Nos cortaron las piernas at the 9. Filmfest Bremen (Germany). 

2023​ Masterclass Crafting Found Footage Films /
Jury of the Short Film International Competitio / Guest and Panelist:  
11. Golden Ger International Film Festival (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia). 

2022 World premiere of the short film Digital Ashes at 11. Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Short Film Festival. Selected for the program
Emerging Artists – Contemporary Experimental ​​​Films and Video Art from Germany 2023/24. Curated by AG Kurzfilm.
​​- 36. Stuttgart Film Winter – Festival for Expanded Media (GERMANY)
​​​- 35. Filmfest Dresden – International Short Film Festival (GERMANY) 
​​​- 24. FestCurtasBH – Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival (BRAZIL)
​​​- 24. Equinoxio – University Film and Audiovisual Festival (COLOMBIA) 
​​​- 18. FestiFreak – La Plata Intl. Independent Film Festival (ARGENTINA) 
​​​- 18. ficmonterrey – Monterrey International Film Festival (MEXICO)
- 20. Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele (GERMANY) / Special Mention
​​​- 4:3 int’l short film festival (UKRAINE) / Special Mention

2020 ​World premiere of the short film VAI! simultaneously at
5. Festival de Cine de Fútbol Minuto 90 (Peru) + 11. CINEfoot – Festival de Cinema de Futebol (Brazil) + 6. Arquivo em Cartaz – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Arquivo (Brazil).
- 20. International Kansk Video Festival (RUSSIA)
- 17. Festival Brésil en Mouvements (FRANCE)
- 16. CineOP – Mostra de Cinema de Ouro Preto (BR)
- 5. Festival de Cine de Fútbol Minuto 90 (PERU) / Best Short Film
- 3. JED – Jornada de Estudos do Documentário (BR) / Best Editing

2019 Screenplay, directing, editing, sound design: Aqueles que se foram.
Final project for the Bachelor in Film at the Federal University of Pernambuco.
- 30. Kinoforum – Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de São Paulo (Brazil);
- 19. Festival de Cinema de Juiz de Fora e Mercocidades (Brazil);
- 17. Festival Internacional Signes de Nuit  (Portugal);
- 13. Curta Taquary (Brazil).

2017 Boom Operator: Meninas Formicida (15’). 
Directed by João Paulo Miranda Maria. Produced by Les Valseurs.
Head of Sound Department: Léo Bortolin. 
- World premiere: 74. Biennale di Venezia (ITALY)
- 19. Festival Kinoarte de Cinema (BR) / Best Sound
​- 11. Curta Taquary (BR) / Best Sound

2015​​ Sound / Boom Operator: Command Action (14’).
Directed by João Paulo Miranda Maria. Produced by Kino-Olho.
Head of Sound Department: Léo Bortolin. 
- World premiere: 68. Festival de Cannes (FR)
- 48. Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro (BR) / Best Sound
​- 8. Curta Taquary (BR) / Best Sound EXHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGS

September 2024 Group exhibition From Digital to Analog (and back again?) with artists Amir Chasson, Frances Hennigan, Taiane Linhares, Tom Lane, Jenny Schäfer, Dirk Sorge, Jakob Urban. Curated by Stefan Mildenberger. Hinterconti e.V. (Hamburg, Germany).

July 2023​ Jury of the “Digital Media Competition” at the Hochschultage 2023 of the University of the Arts Bremen. Jury members: Bruno Christofoletti Barrenha (Brazil), Hakeem Adam (Ghana), Guida Ribeiro (Portugal), Irena Kukrić (Serbia), Maximilian Kiepe and Henrik Nieratschker (Germany).

February 2023​ Group exhibition Exponential Extensions with artists Harm Coordes and Marie Siekmann. Version Room: The Dynamic Archive. Center for International Research and Collaborative Art – Circa 106 (Bremen, Germany).

October 2022 Special Screening of the short film Digital Ashes. “Life After Fire – How to Rescue (Film) Histories in Brazil?” Film Screening and Discussion on UNESCO World Audiovisual Heritage Day. Filmmuseum Potsdam (Germany). 

February 2017​​ Exhibition of the mixed-media artwork: Recife Cidade Aberta (2017). VIII UNICO – University Exhibition of Contemporary Art of Pernambuco (Petrolina and Recife, Brazil). 

GRANTS
June 2019 – March 2022 DAAD Scholarship holder. Master’s and Postgraduate Studies in the Fields of Education, Art, Design, Visual Communication and Film.

April 2017 – April 2019 Film programmer at the university cinema (Cineclube) and editor of the online film magazine Revista. Both projects were conducted by Bruno Christofoletti Barrenha, Carlos Aquino, and Nuno Aymar during their film studies at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil). 

September 2016 – September 2017 ​Introduction to Scientific Research with the project Sound Experiments in Brazilian “Cinema Marginal” Movement. 
Funded by CNPq – National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Brazil).

August 2015 – August 2016​​ Instructor in the audiovisual educational project Fazer o Mundo, Fazendo Vídeo by NGO Ação Darmata (Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Brazil). In this program, young creatives experiment with media (films, video, gifs) as a practice based in their situated knowledge, experiences and subjectivity. The students works came from the years of intense research and media experiments and deals with the ecocide led in Brasil, practices of queer/gender transgression, and media détournement and appropriation.