I began writing at fifteen, when I left Colombia, my country of birth. Driven out by violence, I first found refuge in the United States, and later in France. The letters I sent to my family allowed me to preserve living connecting to my roots. Gradually, my words transformed into images.
My early career in the luxury industry awakened me to the creative fields. I founded an artist collective, developing a collaborative and transdisciplinary practice that led me naturally towards cinema. A self taught filmmaker, I learned on the ground, inspired by the radical cinema of Pasolini, Kubrick, Lynch and Aronofsky, before self-producing my first performances, a documentary and several experimental shorts.
With Deleted Films, founded after meeting Matthew J. Siegel (camera department on The Matrix, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Spider-Man...), I self produced my first narrative shorts. Twisted (2024), and Candyland (2020-2023) continue this critical exploration. Candyland was selected at NewFest (New York) and became a semi-finalist at the Blow-Up Art House Film Festival (Chicago). My upcoming short, Deletion reached the Second Rounder stage at the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, for which I am now developing a revised version.
My work investigates how technologies, media and power structures shape the perception of reality and dictate collective identity. It exposes the illusions of luxury, the erosion of the American Dream, the normalization of gun violence and digital surveillance, as well as the invisibilization of the ill body in our cities. My ambition: to disrupt dominant narratives and carve out spaces of visibility for voices that have been involuntarily erased.
Based in New York, I define myself as a mutt without label, shaped by three acquired national identities: Colombian by birth, French in soul, and American at heart.
