Elena Pardo

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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.

Most Popular Elena Pardo Trailers

Total trailers found: 24

Tierra Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

In the film Tierra the artist’s hands manipulate the organicity of the raw materials. The colors and textures are closely portrayed in 16mm by Elena Pardo and summarizes the long process of the realization of the mural Tu cuerpo selva in Oaxaca, Mexico in a few frames.

Children’s Game #10: Papalote Trailer (2011)

02 January 2011

A 10-year-old boy in a pink salwar kameez stands near a dune-coloured wall under a powder-blue sky. He frowns and gesticulates, conversing in stops and starts with the heavens or at least with the gusting wind because you don’t see his kite at first, and the string is so fine you can’t see that either.

Children’s Game #13: Piñata Trailer (2012)

02 January 2012

A piñata is a papier-mâché figure stuffed with sweets. Common at birthdays in urban patios, here we find it in a field, where a garish Superman dangles between tall poles on a rope jerked by an adult, to make hitting harder.

Children’s Game #12: Musical Chairs Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

The game is filmed from above in a single take, emphasizing the inexorable process of subtraction. Six children place five chairs in a row, facing in alternate directions.

Juquilita Trailer (2004)

19 July 2004

2004 Mexican experimental short

Desaparecer Trailer (2016)

01 January 2016

Desaparecer / Disappear: to stop being in sight or in a place, cease to exist. In Mexico one person disappears every 1 hour and 50 minutes, that is, 13 people a day.

Children’s Game #11: Wolf and Lamb Trailer (2011)

03 January 2011

A group of children hold hands in a circle. The child in the middle plays the lamb, the one outside is the wolf.

De la Naturaleza del Hueso Trailer (2018)

28 February 2018

Mexico 1968.

Nanacatepec Trailer (2024)

20 February 2024

A 16mm film performance draws inspiration from the Nanacatepec, a rock traversed by a network that extends without a defined shape.

Leave What Scares You Trailer (2023)

04 June 2023

From the communal future, a woman recalls the words of her ancestors, women warriors who gathered to record their words about community service.

Mi Barrio Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

Portrait of an old Mexico City neighborhood in the verge of gentrification.

Lila Downs - Pecados y Milagros Trailer (2012)

17 June 2012

Lives for Sale Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

This harrowing film goes beyond the rhetoric to show why immigrants are willing to risk everything – even virtual slavery – for the American Dream.

Fuego Trailer (2003)

01 January 2003

Por dentro somos color Trailer (2024)

11 November 2024

The Exile Trailer (2015)

11 January 2015

In Spain during civil war, a seminarian, Teo, is assigned to a small, remote fortress on the top of the mountain.

Lila Downs - Lotería Cantada Trailer (2007)

30 November 2007

Máquinas de palabras Trailer (2023)

22 March 2023

Portrait of a Mexico City neighborhood where pages and pages are printed, and little by little, words appear.

Inventario Churubusco Trailer (2018)

16 May 2018

The historical Estudios Churubusco lab, where golden era Mexican films were processed in the 1950s, is still open, pretty much untouched.

Underground Pulses Trailer (2023)

12 December 2023

Pulsos Subterráneos is a subjective recording in 16 mm of the experiences of defense and resistance in the territory, culture and life of two communities in Mexico: Vetagrande in Zacatecas and Capulalpam in Oaxaca, facing the mining business.

On the Nature of the Bone Trailer (2022)

03 October 2022

The concept of memory and image are mixed in this piece to reveal the continuity in the justifications that the Mexican Government issues to perpetuate violence.

On the Inside We are Color Trailer (2026)

27 March 2026

In Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, the women's organization Poj Kaa maintains a community herbarium.

The Very Best Of/El Alma de Lila Downs Trailer (2009)

30 June 2009

Life on Mars Trailer (2016)

22 October 2016

What do you think is the desire of every human being?