Filmmaker and visual artist. In 2011 he graduated in the painting speciality from the Leopoldo Romañach Academy of Fine Arts in Santa Clara. He is a graduate in Audiovisual Communication, specialising in Direction, from the Faculty of Audiovisual Media Arts of the University of Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba (2021).
Co-founder of the ‘Archivistas Salvajes’ collective, together with filmmakers Lucía Malandro and Daniel D. Saucedo and journalist Fabio Quintero, and is currently working on creating the first archive, ‘Los Subterráneos’, of amateur Cuban films, aimed at preserving films and documents related to amateur filmmaking practices throughout Cuban history.
He is interested in discoursing using near-zero budgets, unconventional narratives and formal experimentation. Using techniques such as animation and editing resources, his immersive films are generally focused on sensory exploration, immersing the viewer in experiences stimulated through this play with film language. His latest works are focused on the archive, as a means of discoursing on the footprint of time, apathy, and the lost memory of his country.
In 2015 he attended the workshop ‘Guion para la animación’ (Script for Animation) sponsored by the Embassy of Chile in Cuba and the ICAIC Youth Exhibition and given by Chilean animators Carlos Bleycher and Gabriel Osorio. In 2018 he was selected to participate in the workshop ‘Cuba-Anima’, at the International School of Film and TV (EICTV), which was given by the renowned British animators Paul Bush, Barry Purves and Jonathan Hogdson. In 2020 he did the Documentary course of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba. Selected in the 8th edition of the Docmonde workshop ‘Recontres internationales du film documentaire’, French Guiana (2022). Selected together with the ‘Archivistas Salvajes’ collective at the NYU Orphan Film Symposium in New York (2024).
Last update of this profile: 2024
