Clara Jost (Portugal)

Clara Jost is an artist, filmmaker, and editor, born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal. She studied film editing and directing at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon) and holds a master's degree in Audiovisual Arts from KASK (Ghent, Belgium), which she attended as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation fellow. Her works usually take their starting point in everyday elements, exploring their historical, emotional, or cultural layers. Her short films have been selected in Europe, Asia and the Americas at festivals such as Premiers Plans Angers (France), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montreal (Canada), Lago Film Fest (Italy), ZINEBI (Spain), Alchemy Film and Moving Image (Scotland), Kasseler Dokfest (Germany), Beijing International Short Film Festival (China) and London Short Film Festival (UK). They have also been exhibited at venues such as Kunsthalle Münster (Germany), Museo Malba (Argentina), and Palácio das Artes de Belo Horizonte (Brazil). As an editor, she has collaborated with Teresa Villaverde, Paula Tomás Marques, Salomón Pérez, João Onofre, among others. In 2024, she released two short films and participated in two group shows in Portugal with multidisciplinary pieces. She's also writing a column on the website À Pala de Walsh, that aims to shorten the gap between cinema and the other arts, and is teaching at the international film pedagogy project Cinéma Cent Ans de Jeunesse and ArCo art school in Lisbon.