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Currently focused on producing documentary films, both short and long formats, that explore contemporary architecture. Particularly drawn to documenting buildings with strong and clear formal proposals, aesthetically rich spatial and material conditions, and set against inspiring landscapes. Available for projects across Europe and the Americas.
Film Commissions & Inquiries
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BIO
- Graduated in Architecture at the University of Monterrey with experience at the Universidad Mayor in Chile. He worked with PRODUCTORA in Mexico City (2015–2018) leading a variety of international competitions and projects. Since 2014, he has worked closely with architects and institutions in the production of films on contemporary architecture. He obtained the Young Creators Grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts and later was awarded the renowned Marcelo Zambrano Scholarship to study the post-master program at The Berlage, from which he graduated cum laude in 2021. He currently runs a multidisciplinary practice in and around architecture while working at The Berlage as a researcher and tutor, where he’s also involved in the organization of lectures, master classes, and exhibitions.
EXHIBITIONS
- 'International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam', with Nick Axel and Daniel Barber, Rotterdam, 2024
- 'International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam', with Heng Yang, Rotterdam, 2022
- 'Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture', with The Berlage, Guggenheim Bilbao, 2022
- 'Preludio', BY Galeria de Arquitectura, Mexico City, 2022
- 'A Quien Corresponda', GSD Kirkland Gallery, 2019
- 'About Corners, Windows, Handrails, and Sets', Gallery Magazine, 2019
- ‘Chicago Architecture Biennial’, with Productora, Chicago, 2017
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'Columbus Circles for MANIERA', with Productora, Columbus, 2017
- ‘Creadores en Movimiento’, Centro de las Artes, San Luis Potosi, 2017
- 'La narration du quotidien', Forum d’architectures Lausanne, 2016
LECTURES
- ´Ten Films, One Animation, and Ten Other Films’, Nudus Academy, Rotterdam, June, 2024
- 'Many Films and One Vernissage', TU Delft, February, 2024
- ‘Notes on Filmmaking', Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico City, February, 2024
- 'Three Disclaimers, Three Fixations, One Random Journey, Three Problems, and One Vernissage', Syracuse University, 2022
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'About Order and Other Things', UDEM, Monterrey, 2019
- 'About Composition by Collaborative Means', Graham Baba, Seattle, 2019
- 'About Divided Authorship', University of Washington, Seattle, 2019
TEACHINGS
- ‘Project Global: The Logistics of Fish and Cork’, with Sanne van den Breemer and Benjamin Groothuijse, The Berlage, Spring 2025
- 'Notes on Filmmaking', Research Colloquium, The Berlage, Fall 2024
- 'Project NL: Coast Atlas', with Sanne van den Breemer and Jules Schoonman, The Berlage, Fall 2024
- 'Project Global: The Logistics of Marble and Olives', with Sanne van den Breemer and Benjamin Groothuijse, The Berlage, Spring 2024
- 'Project NL: City Atlas', with Sanne van den Breemer and Jules Schoonman, The Berlage, Fall 2023
- 'Notes on Filmmaking', Research Colloquium, The Berlage, Fall 2023
- ‘Let’s Have a Picnic!’, Introduction Week Workshop, The Berlage, Fall 2023
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'Project Global: The Logistics of Milk and Timber', with Sanne van den Breemer and Benjamin Groothuijse, The Berlage, Spring 2023
- 'Project NL: River Atlas', with Sanne van den Breemer, Benjamin Groothuijse, and Jules Schoonman, The Berlage, Fall 2022
- 'One Hundred Observations from and of the Dutch Landscape', Introduction Week Workshop, The Berlage, Fall 2022
- 'Design Master Class: Architecture by Auto', with Pavel Bouse and Kees Kaan, The Berlage, Fall 2021
- 'One Hundred Instructions for Discovering Delft', Introduction Week Workshop, The Berlage, Fall 2021
- 'Design Master Class: A Journey Round my Room', with Beka & Lemoine and Lucas Bacle, The Berlage, Spring 2021
SCREENINGS
- ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, MIMIK, Deventer, February 2025
- ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, February 2025
- ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, World Premiere, 2024
- ‘Rain Harvest Home’, Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival, 2024
- ‘Rain Harvest Home’, International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona, 2023
- ‘Rain Harvest Home’, Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, 2023
- ‘Rain Harvest Home’, CINETEKTON Festival Internacional de Cine y Arquitectura, 2023
- ‘Rain Harvest Home’, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, 2023