GUSTAVO DE MATTOS JAHN
BIOGRAPHY
Gustavo de Mattos Jahn (Florianópolis, 1980) began making films and had his first solo
photography exhibitions in Brazil in 2001. After moving to Berlin in 2006, he founded the duo
Distruktur with Melissa Dullius and participated in the creation of the LaborBerlin collective.
His works cross the boundaries between film and art, experimental and narrative, photography
and moving image. Displacement and transposition happen as strategies to produce
transformations, giving form to unstable narratives. Combining fiction and personal archive,
symbols from different times and places are found and fantastically rearranged.
He works with other artists and filmmakers as actor, director of photography and editor.
Distruktur’s work takes shape as films, installations, film performances, photography, text and
graphic.
FILMOGRAPHY
ORA TUTTO È SILENZIO, 16mm, 8min, 2022
LES IMAGES OÙ TU N’ES PAS, Iphone, 35min, 2022
TOUS LES FLEUVES S’APPELLENT LE NIL, 16mm, 8min, 2021
ORÁCULO, 16mm, 61 min, 2020
LEVANTADO DO CHÃO, 16mm, 11 min, 2020
KINOGRAPH, 16mm, 2min, 2020
EL MERAYA, 16mm, 19 min, 2018
MUITO ROMÂNTICO, 16mm, 72 min, 2016
PASSEIO NOTURNO, 16mm, 6min, 2015
MÁQUINA DO TEMPO, 16mm, 5 min, 2014
IN THE TRAVELER’S HEART, 16mm, 20 min, 2013
DON’T LOOK BACK / LABIRINTO, 16mm, 6 min, 2012
CAT EFFEKT, 16mm, 40 min, 2011
TRIANGULUM, 16mm, 22 min, 2008
ÉTERNAU, 16mm, 21 min, 2006
ABRIL, Super, 19min, 2002
ELE VAI PERGUNTAR DAS COISAS QUE EU GOSTO, Super8, 13min, 2001
