Clara Jost

Artist, filmmaker, film editor
📍Lisbon, Portugal


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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 screened in Europe and the Americas at festivals such as Premiers Plans Angers (France), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montreal (Canada), Lago Film Fest (Italy), ZINEBI (Spain), and Alchemy Film and Moving Image (Scotland). They have also been exhibited at Kunsthall Münster (Germany), Museo Malba (Argentina), and Palácio das Artes de Belo Horizonte (Brazil).

As an editor, she has collaborated with Teresa Villaverde, Tomás Paula Marques, Salomón Pérez, and João Onofre, among others.

In 2024, she released two short films, Happiness in a Pot and Bonjour Eric, and her first installation piece, Orange Tree Altar, at the Loulé Municipal Galleries. She is currently writing monthly chronicles in Au Hasard, Cinema, an ongoing project that explores the points of (dis)encounter between video art and cinema, hosted by the website À pala de Walsh.