Research
Research lines
- Performativity, body and archive in Latin American documentary cinema.
- Mediality, intermediality and transmediality in cinema and contemporary performing arts.
- Research-creation and knowledge production in the arts.
Projects
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2024-2026
Guest thesis researcher in the Fondecyt Regular project No. 1241558 (ANID), “Figuraciones del Capitaloceno en el cine hispanoamericano contemporáneo” [Figurations of the Capitalocene in Contemporary Spanish-American Cinema].
Principal investigator: Carolina Urrutia.
Publications
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2026
“Performatividad, cuerpo y archivo en el documental latinoamericano del siglo XXI. La performatividad cinematográfica situada como categoría de lectura” [Performativity, Body, and Archive in Twenty-first Century Latin American Documentary Cinema. Situated Cinematic Performativity as an Analytical Category]. Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos, 26: 133-164.
It proposes situated cinematic performativity as an analytical-methodological category for examining modes of aesthetic-political intervention in contemporary Latin American documentary cinema. It develops a reading device structured around three axes (operative consciousness, intentionality and iterability) and applies it to El silencio es un cuerpo que cae (Agustina Comedi, 2017), Todo comenzó por el fin (Luis Ospina, 2015) and Notas para una película (Ignacio Agüero, 2022).
Peer-reviewed, indexed journal article, in Spanish. doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2026.84201
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2024
With Marcelo Ramírez. “Luz, cámara... ¡acción!”. In Leamos el mundo desde la identidad y el entorno. Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Fondo del Libro y la Lectura.
Book chapter, in Spanish. ISBN 978-956-416-920-0.
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2024
“Pampas Marcianas: entre la crítica social y la imaginación de mundos posibles”. laFuga, no. 28.
Film review, in Spanish. Read on laFuga
Thesis
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2025
“La zona performativa del cine: espacios intersticiales y liminoides desde los que emerge realidad” [The Performative Realm of Cinema: Interstitial and Liminoid Spaces from Which Reality Emerges]. MA thesis in Film and Audiovisual Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
It hypothesizes that performativity is consubstantial with cinema and proposes an analytical device, including a decalogue of questions, for examining a film through the notion of the performative. It applies this device to five recent Chilean films.
Supervisor: Antonio Luco. In Spanish. Download PDF
Conference papers
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2025
“Prácticas performáticas en el cine latinoamericano contemporáneo: cuerpo, territorio y acontecimiento en Notas para una película y Todo comenzó por el fin” [Performatic Practices in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Body, Territory and Event in Notas para una película and Todo comenzó por el fin].
II Jornadas de Estudios sobre Cine Documental Latinoamericano, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano and Universidad Mayor, Santiago.
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2020
With Ruth Martínez Reyes and Andrea Sanhueza Ibarra. “Luz, Cámara + Inclusión. El uso del cine como herramienta de diálogo intercultural” [Lights, Camera + Inclusion: The Use of Cinema as a Tool for Intercultural Dialogue].
V Congreso RIEDI, Oficina de Equidad e Inclusión, Universidad de Chile.
Film and theatre
Theatre directing and playwriting
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2025-2026
Pretexto. Playwriting and directing, 60 min. Colectivo Presagio, with Valeria Salomé and Micaela Quaroni.
Sala Tessier, August 2025, and Teatro Sidarte, January 2026. See more (in Spanish)
Film directing
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2018
Recuerdocs. Experimental documentary, Chile-Argentina, 50 min. Co-directed.
CaosGermen and ConurDocs.
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2016
Fragmentos. Video essay, Chile-France, 5 min.
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2016
Lista de espera. Documentary, 38 min.
Thesis film, MA in Documentary Film, Universidad de Chile. Watch on Vimeo
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2013
Piel fraterna. Fiction feature film, 70 min.
Graduation film, Escuela de Cine de Chile.
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2011
Púdrete. Fiction short film on 16 mm, 10 min.
Official selection, FICVIÑA 2011, national competition. Watch on Vimeo
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2010
$70.160. Very short fiction film on 16 mm, 3 min.
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2009
143 segundos de Chile. 3 min.
First prize, Concurso de Video Joven de Educar Chile (youth video contest).
Teaching
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2022-present
Universidad de las Américas, Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication program.
Film History and Appreciation; Image Theory and Semiotics; Filmmaking Workshop I, IV, V and VI.
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2025
Advisory work for the same program on integrating research into teaching practice.
Implementation plan for a research line and proposal for a Progressive Research Portfolio.
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2024
Universidad Diego Portales, Film and Audiovisual Communication program.
Communication and Image Theory.
Education
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2023-2025
MA in Film and Audiovisual Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Graduated with highest distinction.
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2014-2016
MA in Documentary Film, Universidad de Chile.
Graduated with highest distinction.
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2013-2014
Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Universidad Mayor.
Graduated with high honors.
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2009-2013
Filmmaker degree, specialization in directing, Escuela de Cine de Chile.
Further training
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2025-2026
Postgraduate diploma in Theatre Directing, Universidad Finis Terrae.
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2017
Postgraduate diploma in Screenwriting, Universidad de Chile.
Cultural management and outreach
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2023-present
Corporación Interregno. Director of the Film and Audiovisual Department from 2023 to 2025, and current member.
Film and memory area.
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2022-2023
Academic committee of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, 29th and 30th editions, on behalf of Universidad de las Américas.
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2019
Coordinator and programmer of the CaosGermen and ConurDocs visual letters showcase (Muestra de cartas visuales), Buenos Aires.
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2017-2019
Co-founder and teacher at Fundación Acción Quimera. Co-director of the Luz, Cámara + Inclusión program.
Workshops and a film festival for migrant children and adolescents.
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2017-2019
Co-founder of Colectivo CaosGermen, a documentary filmmakers’ collective devoted to new forms of non-fiction cinema.
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2017
Official team, Festival Cinélatino, Toulouse, France.
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2016
Official teams of FIDMarseille and the Annecy Festival, France.