Residencies
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Francisco Llinas began a residency with Alchemy Film & Arts, in partnership with the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities and University of Edinburgh, in August 2024.
Francisco’s project researched creative and curatorial ways of connecting the experiences of Scottish colonisers in the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama 300 years ago and those of contemporary Venezuelan migrants in the same region.
Connecting with the Romance Studies Department at Cornell University, the residency manifested across several programmes at our 2025 festival: a screening of films by Adriana Vila Guevara; a closing feature screening of Margot Benacerraf’s Araya (1959); the world-premiere of Carlos Oteyza’s Mayami Nuestro (1981) with newly commissioned subtitles; a live performance by Esperanza Mayobre; and the world-premiere of newly restored offcuts from Araya.
Francisco Llinas
Francisco Llinas is an artist and doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh. As part of his artistic practice, he has completed multiple residencies, developed public art commissions, and facilitated numerous socially engaged projects on displacement. He is a fellow artist at the University of Glasgow’s UNESCO Chair Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. In 2022, Francisco completed a Masters by Research in Latin American Studies, where he examined the representation of the Venezuelan migration crisis in contemporary art.
Funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, his doctoral project approaches the Venezuelan refugee crisis through an interdisciplinary lens, focusing on how the representation and performance of gender, race and class shapes the cultural production and migratory experience of Venezuelans.
