Ficciones / 2021

Alex doesn't have much work to do at his father's video store. But when the likewise film-loving Fátima enters the shop, his boredom is suddenly over.

Fictions / 2021

Ficciones is a spell that conjures representations as if imagined from the perspective of the plant world, that which invents prior to consciousness, as a thinking before thinking (M. Marder). Ceramic sculptures were gardened for a year letting plant life grow on them as their skin. Four super-8 cameras were made into a mobile, thereby also filming the process and its shared motion. To embrace the filmed material as a fictional construction, it was optically printed and altered; to accompany the notion of the sculptures as possible chests, containers of heart, vocal sounds were recorded with Camila de Laborde and weaved into the film.

Ficciones /

Emmanuel Santos' Sophomore short film.

Memorias y ficciones de mi altépetl / 2021

An audiovisual exploration of tlaxcalan childhoods, which delves into the imaginary in a curious, creative and challenging way.

Living and Other Fictions / 2016

Pepe has left the psychiatric hospital after serving time for stealing to work. Only the solidarity of Antonio, a disabled activist, allows him to build a fragile life on which to project his weak hopes. Nevertheless, his need to fit in a senseless world becomes a desperate chore. The horizon of his long-awaited “normality" proves unreachable. The relationship with Antonio interpellates his view of life, inviting him to recognize himself as an anomaly and invent a new madness in which to live.

KM 0 Ficciones urbanas / 2016