LIGHT, PROTECT ME FROM OBLIVION
Short / Docu-fiction
United States
2023

7 min
Super 8, 16mm
Color, B&W
1.33:1
Stereo
No Dialogue

Exhibition Formats:
DCP 1.85:1 Flat
Digital

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A fragmented visual journal filmed across California.

Working between home movie, landscape study, and docu-fiction, the film assembles images of family rupture, exile, animal companionship, and unstable memory. A fictional device enters the film as an apparition: part portal, part witness, part failed protection against disappearance.

The film was developed over six months as a study of displacement and belonging, holding melancholy and gratitude in the same frame.

Original score by Ella Zwietnig

Credits —

Polaroid Cowgirl: Audrey Ludlow
Man: Camilo Barria
Dog: Taco

Director / Writer / Editor: Camilo Barria
Photography: Emil Royer
Producers: Adriana Lodolo, Camilo Barria
Music: Ella Zwietnig

Cameras: Nizo S800, Arriflex 16ST
Negative: Kodak
Laboratory: Spectra, Los Angeles
Scanning: Origins Archival, Los Angeles
Color finishing: Kromachrome
Filmed on location in California

POSTCARDS FROM LAST SUMMER
Experimental, Fiction
United States
2021

15 min
16mm
Color, B&W
1.37:1
Stereo
English Dialogue

Exhibition Format:
Digital

A 16mm fiction assembled from summer fragments, staged encounters, and performative drift.

Shot between the Everglades and Miami Beach, the film follows two young women through a loose sequence of tableaux, private games, and unstable rituals. Its visual language draws from music video, fashion imagery, road cinema, and diary film, but resists settling into a fixed narrative.

Completed in 2021 from footage shot over two weekends in 2018, Postcards from Last Summer treats youth as a surface already becoming memory: playful, artificial, luminous, and quietly estranged.

Original score by Ella Zwietnig

Credits —

Emma (brunette): Isadora Leiva
Lola (blonde): Julia Steiner
Sorceress Voice: Ella Zwietnig

Director / Editor: Camilo Barria
Writers / Producers: Adriana Lodolo, Camilo Barria
Photography: Emil Royer
Composer: Ella Zwietnig
Additional Music: Florian Zwietnig
Audio Engineering / Recording: Florian Zwietnig

Camera: Krasnogorsk 3
Negative: Kodak
Laboratory / Scan: Colorlab, Maryland
Color finishing: Kromachrome
Filmed on location in Everglades National Park
and Miami Beach. Florida

LOOK AT THE CLOUDS
Experimental, Music Video
United States
2021

3' 22''
Archival Footage
Color, B&W
Stereo
No Dialogue

Exhibition Formats:
Digital

A short archival film composed of family travel footage, public-domain cinema, science films, and nuclear defense reels.

The film explores nostalgia as an invented memory: a desire for places, images, and selves that may never have existed. Built through montage, the work places unrelated fragments into relation until they begin to produce a shared emotional logic.

A film essay in the form of a music video.

Original music by Juan Ernesto Velásquez

Credits —

Research / Edit: Camilo Barria
Original Music: Juan Ernesto Velásquez
Recording & Mastering: Pedro Chacón Requena

This film is a transformative experimental work composed from archival and public-domain materials. Its structure explores juxtaposition, montage, and the production of meaning through previously unrelated images.

FAR WITHIN REACH
Experimental, Music Video
United States
2021

4' 50''
Archival Footage
Color, B&W
Stereo
No Dialogue

Exhibition Formats:
Digital

A short archival film assembled from found footage, home movies, educational reels, and fragments of German experimental cinema.

Created during the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the film uses montage to place distant bodies, domestic gestures, public spaces, and anonymous fragments into relation. Images made elsewhere become temporary forms of proximity.

A music video in the form of an archival essay.

Original music by Ekin Fil & Ella Zwietnig