VIDA VEGA

Professional Residency

Year: 2026 / Genre: Professional Residency / Project: IP development – ONCE IN SEPTIEMBRE

PLASTIC Collective welcomes London-based animation director Vida Vega for her residency period in Spring 2026. Her practice moves between personal history and political landscape, working primarily in hand-drawn 2D animation with ink, paper, and digital paint.

Born to a Chilean refugee father and an Italian immigrant mother, Vega’s work is shaped by questions of exile, memory, and inherited silence. During her time at PLASTIC Collective, she is developing ONCE IN SEPTIEMBRE — a film that weaves together her family’s displacement after the 1973 military coup led by Augusto Pinochet with Chile’s present day lithium extraction in the Atacama Desert.

The project moves between archive, landscape, and intimate recollection. It asks how political intervention, resource extraction, and migration echo across generations — and what remains, both materially and emotionally, after rupture.

Vida Vega is a London-based animation director and educator. Born to a Chilean refugee father and an Italian immigrant mother, her background informs a practice shaped by movement, language, and lived complexity. Working primarily in 2D animation, she creates hand-crafted moving images using ink, paper, and digital paint. Her work moves between independent film and commercial projects, holding a balance between beauty and emotional depth while exploring personal and political narratives.

SUPPORTED BY
PLASTIC Collective, Viborg UNESCO Creative City, The Animation Workshop, Viborg Kommune, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.