Carmen Dusmet Carrasco (b.1991, Gijón, Spain)
Lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands
Carmen Dusmet Carrasco is an interdisciplinary artist working in film, sound, and script to explore themes of mental health, identity, and intergenerational trauma, often weaving autobiography with fiction. Her work portrays characters in complex psychological states, focusing on Western stigmas around women’s mental health.
Her work has been exhibited at Prospects Art Rotterdam, Trixie (Den Haag), Cas-co (Leuven), Het Hem (Amsterdam), The Grey Space in the Middle (Den Haag), and screened at Filmhuis (Den Haag), Rialto (Amsterdam), The Hague Film Festival, OJO Film Festival Peru, 4th Multicultural Film Festival Toronto, Ficnova Bienal España, Empatheater Copenhagen.
∘˚˳°∘° | Education
2020 MFA Design, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, NL
2018 BFA Graphic Design, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2012 BS Psychology, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, SP
∘˚˳°∘° | Residencies
2023 CINE:MACA, Moving Arts Center Amsterdam, NL
2023 RRWF 2023, Radio Relativa, Madrid, SP
2022 Cas-co: Off the Grid, Leuven, BE
∘° ∘˚˳° | Exhibitions
2024 Dreaming Images, group screening, Paandam Video, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam
2024 Dreaming Images, group show, Paandam Video, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm
2024 Glued & Screwed #16: Reenactment, Filmhuis, The Hague
2024 Prospects, Mondriaan Fonds, Art Rotterdam, NL
2023 Shortcuts, Fet Film Stockholm, SK
2023 Bermuda Open Studios, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, NL
2023 From Dawn to Dusk, cOsMiC eXpAnSiOn, Trixie, The Hague, NL
2022 Bermuda Open Studio, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, NL
2022 My Goals are Bigger Than Yours, Cas-co, Leuven, BE
2022 Rialto x Home Cinema, Rialto, Amsterdam, NL
2020 I Swear Time Passed, Het Hem, Amsterdam, NL
2019 WTF Just Happened, Did I Die? Sociëteit SEXYLAND Amsterdam, NL
2019 Nothing To See Here, The Picnic Pavilion, Casa Punto Croce, Venice, IT
2019 SS Thu: launch ISSUE 4, San Serriffe Amsterdam, NL
2019 Ooh, it’s so good, it’s so good it’s so good, i’m in love, Fanfare, NL
2019 From Precarity: PUB Journal #2, Fabulous Future, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Dutch Design Week, Sectie-C Eindhoven, NL
2018 Singularity Now, Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, GR
2018 Cleansed, Peeled, Liberated, Royal Academy of Art Den Haag, NL
∘°˳°∘˚ | Screenings
2023 ROOTS in Motion, Filmhuis Den Haag, NL
2022 6th FICNOVA Bienal, SP
2022 Rialto Film, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Bermuda Open Studio, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, NL
2022 Cas-co, Leuven, BE
2022 Empatheater, online screening, Copenhagen, DK
2021 The Hague Film Festival, NL
2021 First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, Lift-Off Global Networks
2021 4th Multicultural Film Festival, Toronto Film Forum, CA
2021 OJO MÓVIL FEST, Festival Internacional de Cine y Video, Perú
˳˚°∘°∘ | Teaching & Workshops
2024 Tutor: Moving Image, Graphic Design department, KABK, Royal Academy of Art
2024 Workshop: Group storytelling, VAV Gerrit Rietveld Academy
2024 Workshop: Building Narratives, MAPS, MA Photography, Royal Academy of Art
2023 Workshop: Memory and Dream: Collaborative Script-Writing, Trixie
2022 Seminar: Film as Research Field, Faculty of Fine Arts Brno
2022 Guest: Moving Image AKI Academy of Art & Design, Enschede
2021 Workshop: Collaborative Video Editing, Royal Academy of Art
2021 Guest: Feedback sessions Design Department, Sandberg Instituut
∘˚˳°∘° | Awards and grants
2024 Development Voucher, Mondriaan Fonds
2023 PRO Onderzoek, Stroom Den Haag
2023 Projecten voor onderzoek en experiment, Gemeente Den Haag
2022 Artist Start Grant, Mondriaan Fonds
2022 Digital Cultuur: Home Cinema, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
2021 Nomination Best Documentary Film, The Hague Film Festival