Francisca Khamis Giacoman is invested in unearthing memories and preserving oral tradition, and tries to engage with the malleable quality of time by listening to traces of the past, understanding how it materialises the present moment. She attempts to communicate from within an experience of a fragmented existence, using humor and treating with lightness the lived experience of being in a position of unknowing.

Her films have been screened at Locarno Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, Cairo International Film Festival, Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Gijón International Film Festival, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, FIDOCS, DocsMX, London Short Film Festival, Filmfest Dresden, Leiden Film Festival, and the Biennial of Media Arts in Santiago, among others. Her work has been presented at the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (Santiago, Chile), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (India), Manifold Books (Amsterdam), Abu Dhabi Art, de Appel (Amsterdam), Extra City (Antwerp), Biblioteka (London), Rozenstraat (Amsterdam), Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), Kunstverein (Amsterdam), Stroom (The Hague), and Gold+Beton (Cologne), among others.

She is also working on several long-term collaborative projects in Amsterdam. Since 2023, she organizes Museo del Perro – Honden Museum, a whimsical multimedia display collection of canine artefacts. In 2022, she co-founded Espacio Estamos Bien (EEB), an art cooperative that supports independent artists.

Contact: frankhamis@gmail.com