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My gaze

Each piece created under my gaze is a complex construction, which is approached as an artistic tool that allows the hidden to come to light. I tell stories, whether they are real or inspired by reality. In both cases, I take my audience through a path of introspection, full of ideas that approach the invisible. This path inspires me to create something more than ephemeral pleasant, but eternal instead.

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For me, every project is a gift to empathize with others. A gift that allows me to stop and observe the beauty of the tiniest, explore history and meditate about the internal conflicts of humanity. I take care of this gift with dedication, love and resilience.

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Then, photography arrived with a business opportunity. Back then, I usually photographed portraits and events, but while doing so, I realized that what truly captured my attention was communicating concepts through images and symbols. I began to experiment with light, color, and shapes, which added complexity to my ideas. That's how I developed my personal style—one that some describe as strange, dark, deep, and artistic. I would say it’s a combination of all those elements, but above all, it plays with poetry, always carrying meaning and purpose.

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Lastly came the moving image, which was introduced by my brother, whom I deeply admire. Within this wide cinematographic world, he, along with his likes, has helped me to create a path which I can truly identify with and where my talents have flourished.

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Everything started with the literary image, imagining characters and stories since I was eleven or twelve. Traveling through books, notebooks and pens, always with something to write or read. At the beginning, I wrote stories that were senseless and that seven out of fifteen words were misspelled. Those short stories were key for my development, getting inspired by what I felt, adding images that arrived to my head. And now, my relationship with the pen and paper is peculiar and can be described by what Lola Ancira writes in “Why do I write?” anthology. "Writing has exposed part of my internal world to those who are willing to know it". She describes that silence and seclusion are essential to reflect and speculate, being able to create a sentence that will develop a plot and mainly to find the beginning to the ending that started everything.

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References that inspired me on my way have been multiple, on one hand there are the films that I call “meditative”, those that penetrate into the deepest emotions in just a couple of shots, allowing the audience to enter into a state of introspection in a subtle way. The director Andrei Tarkovsky being one of them. On the other hand, there are films that play with cinematographic elements in order to give a unique essence and give strength to the story, aspects such as: luminance, chrominance, script, devices, etc. Key filmmakers such as: Kar-Wai Wong, Denis Villeneuve, Gaspar Noé, Darren Aronofsky and Vera Chytilová.

 

References like the ones mentioned, my life story, my experience and my genuine interests, seek to create a new kind of films. With the same searches, but with the vision of my soul, my own perception of the world. Being a guide and voice for those who have not had the opportunity to be heard. Opening minds and hearts.

 

This is me and my infinite search.

Biography.

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Born in Mexico City on March 26, 2001, with a Communication degree at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Queretaro. She has been trained in cinematography at the Mexican Association of Cinematographers (AMC), the Latin American Federation of Authors of Cinematographic Photography (FELAFC) and at Doqumenta Film Festival. In addition, she has taken courses in colorization and camera operator by HDlabs Mexico. From a young age she has worked as a photographer, for which she has developed roles as director, director of photography, colorist and camera operator in music videos, short documentaries such as "Ni salado, ni dulce" (2021). As well as direction of photography in fiction short films and the miniseries "Confidencial" (2021). The fiction short film “Silences” (2022) is her debut feature as a screenwriter and director.

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