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This piece was inspired by the album Fantasmagórico (2017) by dominican experimental musician Boundary. An attempt to make music criticism in an audiovisual medium.

46-year-old Agustin has lived with a dissociative identity disorder resulting from the rape of his own father when he was just 10 years old, this disorder has caused physical and psychological damage to Agustin, now he must survive himself.

Two snuff-film directors face a problematic shoot: one goes through a creative crisis, and the other feels guilty. The only one who seems to face the shoot with optimism and good humor is the victim.

1937, Spanish Civil War. Three Republican soldiers desert, escaping the horror. Or at least, that's what they believe.

Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose to be mothers? Why is care, of fundamental vital labor, presupposed as an especially appropriate task for women?

A poetic journey from Tierra del Fuego to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, made by nine Latin American and European poets, artists and architects in 1965. Recostructing the events that made this unique experience of art and life possible, as well its consequences, like the foundation of the vanguardist school of architecture of Valparaíso University and the building of an “Open City” in the sands of the Chilean Pacific Ocean.

Mateo (20) suffers epileptic seizures almost daily. His life is a blend of habitual routines and the dreamlike world he senses during his seizures. His life is transformed when he meets Natalia, a young, enchanting and crazy lady.

A Japanese philosopher writes a letter to a famous German colleague. He asks the German to advise the Japanese people how to deal with the permeation of modern life by technology. More than 50 years later, the same issues are being discussed among academics and aspiring engineers. It is hard to grasp how humans and technology continue to coexist. Resorting to biographical trivia, mythological histories and the recounting of dreams is not helping them to see these issues any clearer. In the grainy images of the film, landscapes from an uncertain time appear, occasionally flooded by water and a cacophony of brass players. The uncontrollable finds its ways into a world that tries to minimise risks and thus creates new dangers.

In 1985, a fuzzy feature was perceived in the skies of Viña del Mar, Chile. The radio amateurs went crazy because the absent and ghostly figures promised to share the secret of the face hidden behind the fog. In some place, someone bleeds forever.

Carlos comes home and is told that his dog Rocco bitten the neighbor's boy. The neighbor is angry and threatens to call police.

Aristotle is an obese man following a therapy to lose weight. When he meets Tim, a security guard from the first McDonalds factory in Cuba, his expectations increase.

After being widowed, Chela moves to a city where she doesn’t know anyone, to be closer to her daughter, but she ignores her. One day she meets her neighbor, Elena, who invites her to have a meal. Soon they will become great friends. What Chela doesn’t know is that Elena, in reality, is Jaime.

Welcome to Corozopando! A small town located in the Guarico state. In this little piece of land, in the heart of the Venezuelan plain, which is more than quesadillas, meat on a stick and posadas, its people are also valuable and talented, as well as Rubén Darío, a child, whose talent will give birth to this town and will insert it on the world map. But… what are those talents? Nobody knows, much less him.

In the jurisdiction of the police chief Lombroso, mutilated and heartless corpses appear. The commissioner investigates an alleged gang that traffics in human organs.

This performance takes place at the Puente de Cal y Canto bridge in Santiago de Chile, constructed during colonial times at the site where an Inka rope bridge had once connected the south and north of Chile. Vicuña invited friends and passersby to join in creating "a living knot" (un nudo vivo), to recover the memory of the sacred Mapocho Valley and its river, now deeply contaminated. This is one of several "performance-knots" of her Quipu Mapocho, conducted between 2016 and 2017.

La Maldita Primavera is a film starring the indiepop band "Papa Topo” and it’s about a reptilian sent to Earth to find out if humans pose a threat to the rest of the galaxy.

A new-age worker, a hero

Alejandro has to face the suicide of his brother and returns to his hometown, Valparaiso, there discovers an illegal network in which his brother participated, this revives obscure passages in his childhood.

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has oscillated between dictatorship and democracy for over a century, and its citizens have faced brutal oppression and economic disaster. Throughout all this, successive generations of activists and artists have taken to the streets of this city to express themselves through art. This has given the walls a powerful and symbolic role: they have become the city’s voice. This tradition of expression in public space, of art and activism interweaving, has made the streets of Buenos Aires into a riot of colour and communication, giving the world a lesson in how to make resistance beautiful.

Juan Pérez is an ordinary Chilean; one who goes through his monotonous life unnoticed, surviving debts, his crushing work, minimum wage, and loneliness. Until one day, out of luck, he prevents a robbery and is given hero status by the media. This lasts 24 hours. Forced to return to his routine, Juan falls into a spiral of excess and madness, and ends up the opposite of the hero he wanted to be.

Starring an unapologetic Jedet, this short film talks about tolerance through a personal transformation framed in a photo shoot.

Ateneos is a community theater troupe. Its members work during the day and meet to rehearse at night. For the most part, they are people with a lot of sensitivity who found a way to express themselves there. The film explores the mechanisms that human beings have to deal with pain and continue to create despite everything.

Juan walks through desolate alleys, thinking of his friend he is attracted to, but knowing that he will never be with him. Until he meets Sarahí, a transwoman prostitute, where he finds a shelter, a flash of affection in his aimlessly night.

The camera sees the future.

The black granite in the Serra da Capelada range formed from solidified magma during the Precambrian era, some 1,160 million years ago. The rocks were buried deep beneath the Earth’s surface until Pangea broke apart, 200 million years ago, causing a 600-meter high cliff to form. Homo sapiens sapiens appeared on Earth 200,000 years ago.

Bullets come up from the flesh is a female voice, a poetic speech, a fable in reverse, about environmental protection, human rights and the unpredictable human nature.

Carmelo Bustos, founder of the Orchestra Huambaly and precursor in teaching jazz, yet teaches children lacking opportunities. At 90 years, he will enter his disciples to record with one of the most important studies of Latin America.

A man must use the woman he loves to catch a serial killer.

An anarchist group in the 90s made up of former soldiers, guerrillas, paramilitaries and victims, call themselves “How to train fighting cocks”, the group tired of the evil that consumes humanity and inspired by the essay Civil Disobedience of Henry Thoreau.

A mentally disturbed alcoholic desperately attempts to murder her mother. Only to discover that reality is not as clear as she thought it was.

A couple of young indigenous people are going to be parents. This news arouses their concern about the identity with which they will educate and raise their son or daughter.

This day Elena doesn't want to smile.

Clara is a girl who can not show herself the way she is. There is something with her that forces her to live under a name and appearance that aren't real. 'No soy él' is the first trans short film in Galiza's history.

A couple descends through a forest in the surroundings of Valparaíso. Suddenly, old ghosts begin to appear between them: the trees and the water begin to sing provoking the emergence of a dreadful element.

Are we transforemed into energy once we are dead? Energy made visible when death stares at us up close.