After receiving her Bachelors in Film and Television Production from Boston University, she has bounced around the country working for dance competitions, daycares, and the experiential education company, Envision, where her life was changed working as a facilitation advisor for the National Security program in Washington, D.C. Inspired by her parents\u2019 journey and the youth she works with, she hopes to continue forging her own path towards documentary journalism and learning more about our government, foreign powers, and worldwide human injustices.
Mariana enjoys crying over foreign films, screeching about adorable dogs, swaying political opinions, and embarrassing her friends with jarringly loud singing in any public setting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nNY Glam: Tell us a little about yourself\nand your career beginnings. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ever\nsince I was five years old, I was set on becoming an astronomer. Influenced\nonly slightly by my love of Jeff Goldblum and \u201cchaos,\u201d I had entertained the\nidea of being a paleontologist for a bit as well. It took until I failed my\nfirst advanced physics exam in high school to jumpstart brainstorming new\ncareer paths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\nended up at Boston University studying Film and Television Production with a\nconcentration in Psychology. Eager to create content, I checked out a camera\nfrom the rental office as much as possible. It wasn\u2019t until I studied abroad in\nSydney, Australia my junior year, where I purchased my first camera where I\ntruly began my incessant rampage to get in people\u2019s faces and document\nbeautiful moments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After\na few internships in the video production world, I graduated and settled back\nin the New York City area where I have worked as a video\/photo freelancer and\nemployee for various companies and clients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam: What projects\nare you currently working on? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I spent\nDecember-February of this past year traveling to Chile, the motherland, and\nSpain, a country near and dear to my heart. I had a 24-hour stop in Paris and a\n24-hour stop in Bilbao. I just finished making travel videos for both those\ndays in which I encapsulated the feelings and mood I had walking around all day\nlong in these culturally rich and aesthetically beautiful places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I also am\ncurrently working on\/just might\u2019ve finished-my Chile travel video which began\nwith footage from all over with no story, and condensed it to a minute and a\nhalf long vignette of holding on for dear life and holding down my breakfast on\nmy uncle\u2019s boat. He\u2019s been sailing for over 30 years and it felt only right to\nprofile his passion with my own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I am\ncurrently and constantly working on rehashing my old videos I never did\nanything with, as there are many. I am always looking for ways to connect with\nothers and create content that speaks to me and them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: <\/strong>What art do you most identify with?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I grew up in a musical household. Having learned voice,\npiano, flute, violin, and guitar at early ages\u2014as well as my parents refusal to\nlisten to anything else other than classical music\u2014I hold music as one of the\nmost important, fundamental, and gorgeous artforms that stimulate the mind,\nmove hearts, and encourage human growth. I believe what makes it so healing is\nthe layers of depth that are never said but meant to be discovered. My work\ntakes longer at times to complete simply because I haven\u2019t found the right\nmusic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What themes do you pursue?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I love\nshowcasing freedom and highlighting injustices. Being able to show two\ncontrasting images or showing how everything is connected is a way I feel I\u2019ve\nsucceeded in my work. I want it to show reality and I want it to evoke action.\nOutside of my video work, I show this best by combining my photos with a\nshort-essay or poem attached, usually much too extra for a mindless IG scroll\nsession \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What\u2019s your favorite art work? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If we\u2019re talking about painting: There is a painting that\nhas hung in my parents\u2019 house for years. It\u2019s a woman in a dress with her back\nturned to us looking out to a lake. There\u2019s a sailboat and a house with a faded\nred roof in the distance. Everything is painted with a delicate shade of blue\nand pink\u2014impressionist and impressive. I\u2019ve recalled that painting often when\nI\u2019ve put my eye to the lens or brush to canvass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Film wise: The Fountain has been one of the most impactful\npieces of artwork I\u2019ve experienced. The heavy themes and troubling reality that\nwe cannot cure death speaks to so many insecurities and fears that have plagued\nso many, including myself. It\u2019s a reminder to live as presently as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photography wise: Since I was so fixated on becoming an\nastronomer for so long, it took me longer than some of my peers to truly feel\nconnected to an image. But it wasn\u2019t too long after 9\/11 that I was looking\nthrough a stack of old National Geographic magazines my parents had, that I\ncame across the 1985 issue with the Afghan Girl. The piercing eyes and troubled\nface, I had endless questions for my parents about her. Only eight years old at\nthe time, I knew her face and emotions would stick with me forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Music: Air on G String by Bach is arguably the most\nbeautiful piece of music ever written, according to classical music\nprofessionals. It is the most beautiful piece of music ever written, according\nto me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: Tells us about some of your recent\nexhibitions. What memorable responses have you had to your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n While I haven\u2019t\nhad any in-person exhibitions yet, I frequently advertise and post my work on\nInstagram where I feel appreciated and encouraged to keep creating. And as lame\nas it may sound, I showed my mom my recent Chile travel video and got her\ncrying in 0.2 seconds. Tears are always good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: Tell us about one of your projects which\nyou are very proud of.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Miles To Go was\na very personal video project I made. My sister and I had just mended our\nrelationship and we went to Ithaca, New York\u2014her old college stomping grounds.\nFixated on living in a city my entire life, I never enjoyed the rural drives\nand long hours it took to get there when I was younger. A little older and a\nlot more well-traveled, I was inspired after my trip here to make a video of\nwhat I did and how it felt. It\u2019s kind of jumpstarted my series of travel videos\nthat follow that same theme. While there\u2019s a lot I would change about the video\nnow, it stands as a transformative piece I\u2019ve created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What does \u201cbeing creative\u201d mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Being creative\nis natural. It\u2019s frustrating. It\u2019s beautiful. It\u2019s the only thing I am sure I\nwant to \u201cbe\u201d for the rest of my life. It can mean creating videos, taking\npictures, and playing my guitar. It can mean collaborating with team members to\nfind ten solutions for the one problem. It means innovation and the future and\nsomething I will always want to be a part of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam: What are you trying to communicate with your art?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The beautiful, the bad, the ugly,\nthe truth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam: What role does the Artist have in Society?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam: What are your thoughts on being an artist\nin today\u2019s world?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m so thankful to have grown up\nwith parents that supported my siblings\u2019 and I\u2019s crazy, passionate love of\ncreativity. But there exists more opportunity for artists with money. There\u2019s\nmore opportunity to fail and try again. I\u2019ve seen artists compromise their\ndreams simply because it wouldn\u2019t support them. I\u2019ve also seen artists\ncommitted and stopping at nothing to accomplish their goal, but sometimes\nsacrificing their relationships and mental health along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have made a living of my art, no\nmatter how difficult it\u2019s been. My brother and sister have made a living of\ntheir art and are thriving. And as underprivileged as I thought we might\u2019ve\ngrown up, I know millions of others are never able to truly discover and stoke\ntheir artistic side simply because survival is the priority. But we all will\nfind a way to be creative, whether that is through a joyful street dance, a\ngraffiti\u2019d wall, creating drums out of pots and pans, or playing with stuffed\nanimals. Stories are always going to be told and it\u2019s incredible we have so\nmany outlets to do that with now. The only thing I hope we change is the format\nin which mass audiences \u201cneed\u201d to consume content. I like taking my time and\nincorporating slow reveals but I\u2019ve only got so much power and beauty before a\nthumb scrolls past my post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam: How has painting influenced your life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I went to a lot of museums ever since I was a kid. My parents\u2019 place was decked out with prints of Monet and Renoir. I looked at those pieces and it informed how I expressed myself the first time I held a paintbrush out of my own volition, which was just a few months ago. But when the brush met the canvass, I couldn\u2019t stop thinking how this was a whole new arena of expression I had never really investigated. I\u2019m eager to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What art movement or artist would you say influences your work most?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Darren Aronofsky has been a favorite director of mine for some time. His films made me realize it\u2019s okay to focus on the heavy stuff and sob hysterically after watching Requiem for a Dream five times. \u201cChivo\u201d Lubezki ruined my life after seeing his immaculate images both on screen and in photographs, it\u2019s not a competition but will I ever be able to do THAT? Alfonso Cuaron needs to be mentioned in the same breath. Him and countless foreign film directors have influenced me the most the older I\u2019ve gotten because of the realness they bring to their films by just having the camera and audience sit with the characters for a bit; less dialogue, more emotion. I\u2019m for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam: What can we\nexpect from you this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n While\nI\u2019ve spoken a lot about what I\u2019ve done and the passion I\u2019ve had for my art, I\nhave yet to mention how passionate and dedicated I am to incorporating my art\nwith my love of working with underserved and immigrant communities. Having a\npersonal connection to these both, I hope to collaborate with non-profits and\nleaders for minority voices to shed light on their adversities, triumphs, and\nensuring they are seen as visibly, treated as fairly, and given as many\nresources as others have been given in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On a\npersonal note, I\u2019m hoping to to pick up and move these cameras and goals to\nWashington, D.C. I find that\u2019s the best place for me at this point in my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam: Can you share\nwith us three favorite things about your city\/culture? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My entire\nfamily lives in Chile. One of my favorite things I\u2019ve always loved about this\nculture, and all latinx cultures, is the warmth one feels interacting with\nothers. There\u2019s nothing like a hug and kiss on the cheek from every single\nparty-attendee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I grew up\ngoing to New York City every Sunday. As a child, I hated it. But we started\ngoing every other week and I started missing it. Then we started going once a\nmonth and I decided this was where I needed to live forever. To this day,\ndespite all the international cities and forests I\u2019ve trudged through, it\u2019s the\nendless energy and constant buzz of intellect, culture, and opportunity that\nNew York City gives off that\u2019s intoxicating. I\u2019m addicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is nothing better than Chilean food. Periodt. I heard it every time we sat down to eat from my\u2014only slightly bitter\u2014parents that the mango wasn\u2019t juicy enough or the tomato wasn\u2019t sweet enough. When I was finally able to visit Chile, I was like Augustus Gloop in the chocolate factory but eating all the seafood, avocados, and alfajores I could find. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exclusive Interview with Mariana Angulo-Pizarro – Photographer Mariana Angulo-Pizarro is a bilingual multimedia content creative and musician who has worked with immigrant and high-need communities around the country. 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