Person

Elena Pardo

Directing

Elena Pardo is a visual artist and documentary, experimental and animation filmmaker living in Mexico City. She explores the possibilities offered by photochemical films for preserving and capturing images, working in a laboratory. Since 2005, she has been a member of the extended film collective Trinchera Ensamble. She is also co-founder and current director of Laboratorio Experimental de Cine [Experimental Film Laboratory] (LEC), an artistic project that came into being in 2013. LEC engages in the dissemination, production, educational activities and programming of content in different cinematic formats.

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  Painting/Retoque

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  Leave What Scares You

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  De la Naturaleza del Hueso

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  Children’s Game #11: Wolf and Lamb

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  Underground Pulses

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  Nanacatepec

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  Desaparecer

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  Children’s Game #12: Musical Chairs

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  Lila Downs - Pecados y Milagros

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  Lila Downs - Lotería Cantada

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• 2026On the Inside We are ColorDirector
• 2024Por dentro somos colorDirector
• 2024NanacatepecDirector
• 2023Underground PulsesDirector
• 2023Leave What Scares YouScreenplay
• 2023Máquinas de palabrasDirector
• 2022On the Nature of the BoneDirector
• 2018Inventario ChurubuscoDirector
• 2018De la Naturaleza del HuesoDirector
• 2016Life on MarsArt Direction
• 2016DesaparecerDirector
• 2015The ExileArt Direction
• 2012Lila Downs - Pecados y MilagrosDirector
• 2012Children’s Game #13: PiñataCamera Operator
• 2012Children’s Game #12: Musical ChairsCamera Operator
• 2011Children’s Game #11: Wolf and LambEditor
• 2011Children’s Game #10: PapaloteEditor
• 2009The Very Best Of/El Alma de Lila DownsEditor
• 2009Mi BarrioDirector
• 2007Lila Downs - Lotería CantadaProducer
• 2007Lives for SaleCinematography
• 2005TierraDirector
• 2004JuquilitaDirector
• 2003FuegoDirector
• —Painting/RetoqueEditor