Gónza Rammsy
I was born in Lima, Perú in 1999. At the age of five, my mother and I migrated for the first time to Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the age of eight, we moved to Santiago, Chile. By the age of eleven, we were in Melbourne, Australia, where we lived for six years. By the time I was seventeen, we returned to Santiago, where I lived until I was nineteen, when I decided to migrate to Europe. I lived in Italy until I finally arrived in Berlin, where I studied for a BA in Film and Motion Design at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences.
Ever since I can remember, I have been immersing myself in different worlds, realities, accents, and languages. I have met different kinds of people and been many different kinds of people myself, always searching for that “one true identity”. This has been tied to my growth as an artist, a constant search for new mediums to express the thoughts and the enormous feelings of repetitive change that radiate from within to the world outside. At the age of six, I met my stepfather, a Tattoo artist, who has been a tremendous influence on my artistic growth through the years, one who opened my mind to artistic expressions and different ways of seeing the world through an unconventional lens.
It would be a great narrative strategy to say I’ve been an artist since I was six years old, but the reality is I have been in survival mode, staring at the new worlds thrown at me. My first artistic expression came from the love of skateboarding. I started skateboarding very young, but didn’t fully immerse myself in that world until I was fourteen, when I started working at my local skatepark in Melbourne. This passion combined many art forms that interested me: photography, film, fashion, music, tattoos, and, overall, unconventional practices. My forms of expression changed and merged simultaneously. By sixteen, I started writing poetry, fuelled by those first Philosophy classes in high school and by great voices in punk and hip-hop songs I heard in skate videos. My passion for music and writing extended to learning about music production, DJ’ing, and composing.
I started to chase the dream of having my voice heard.
Skateboarding became my main core practice. I was working, giving skate lessons and promoting a healthy culture around it for the next generations of skaters. In Santiago, I started a career behind skateboarding, joining a company that managed skateparks, offered free lessons to the community, and was present at events like Lollapalooza and House of Vans. On the side, I would experiment more with writing, music production, photography and all kinds of hands-on DIY projects.
Despite all the different creative expressions, the one that stayed constant was writing, mainly poetry and songs.
By the time I reached Europe, I continued on the path of skateboarding, co-directing a skateboarding NGO focused on expressing its essence through a healthy, family-friendly approach and offering workshops and inclusive skate lessons for all. It was then that everything changed, and I found the new medium I would fall in love with: filmmaking. I understood that, just like skateboarding, filmmaking was at the core of many of the media I had always been interested in: music, philosophy, clothes, writing, photography, etc. It is at the centre of all forms of expression to meet and dance together in a developed world where imagination makes up the laws of a universe. For me, it was what I needed to fully dedicate myself to next. And as always, I fully immersed myself in the world of film.
I decided to study in Berlin, where I challenged myself and started to dive deep within to find a personal visual voice, which has been my focus since. To understand my vision, style, and themes, I had to understand myself and my story. That’s why I started creating personal films that reflect my life and my learnings as a young human being. My films tend to steer into that realm of imagination that perhaps exists very vividly in the first years of our lives and fades slowly as we get older and are integrated into a superficial society.
Introspection is the medium of my storytelling.
The greatest fuel for any migrant kid who needs to survive new worlds.
STUDENT FILMS
STUDENT FILMS
PHOTO
PHOTO
COLLAGE
COLLAGE
SOCIAL WORK
SOCIAL WORK
TEXT
TEXT
IN DEVELOPMENT
IN DEVELOPMENT
My work so far has allowed me to be involved in many different stages of the creative process — from writing and developing ideas to producing, directing, working with people and locations, designing sets, performing, editing, sound design and all things post-production. I now want to bring this hands-on experience into a professional environment where I can contribute to projects, collaborate with experienced teams and take ideas further. I enjoy being involved in this process and finding ways to move projects forward when circumstances change.
I’m drawn to environments that value curiosity, collaboration and experimentation, and where people are willing to question established ways of working and look for new possibilities. I want to work alongside people who challenge me creatively while also being able to contribute my own perspective, skills and initiative.
At this stage, I’m looking for a place where I can put my experience into practice, continue developing it through responsibility, and become part of a professional creative community. I see this not simply as the next step in my career, but as an opportunity to contribute to meaningful work while building on the foundation I have already created through my own practice.
