About
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.
Filmography
On the Inside We are Color2026 · Director
Por dentro somos color2024 · Director
Nanacatepec2024 · Director
Underground Pulses2023 · Director
Leave What Scares You2023 · Editor, Cinematography, Screenplay, Producer
Máquinas de palabras2023 · Director
On the Nature of the Bone2022 · Director
Inventario Churubusco2018 · Director
De la Naturaleza del Hueso2018 · Director
Life on Mars2016 · Art Direction
Desaparecer2016 · Director
The Exile2015 · Art Direction
Lila Downs - Pecados y Milagros2012 · Director
Children’s Game #13: Piñata2012 · Camera Operator, Producer
Children’s Game #12: Musical Chairs2012 · Producer, Camera Operator
Children’s Game #11: Wolf and Lamb2011 · Editor
Children’s Game #10: Papalote2011 · Editor
The Very Best Of/El Alma de Lila Downs2009 · Editor
Mi Barrio2009 · Director
Lila Downs - Lotería Cantada2007 · Director, Camera Operator, Producer