
Directing
Bruno Varela
Place of birth
Mexico
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Bruno Varela is an audiovisual artist, researcher and self-taught film and video producer. His works, located mainly in the geographical and conceptual south, have appeared in museums and festivals such as the Guggenheim Museum (New York), Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles), the Carrillo Gil Art Museum (CDMX), the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Germany), the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), the Morelia International Film Festival and FICUNAM. Varela has received awards such as the e-flux Award of the Oberhausen Festival (2015), the Media Artist award of the Rockefeller Foundation (2006) and the award for best work at the Festival Geografías Suaves (2002), as well as honorabl…
Known for
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Lila Downs - Lotería Cantada
2007
NRAn exercise in random materialistic cinema, scrolls inhabited by diverse structures and temporalities collapse in the development and scanning, become embedded in a common memory and end up weaving a set piece of light and vapors. Speculative fiction, vegetable narration, dream of seeds. Neon Bark is a whole learning curve, a potential movie. We expect looks and screens and many more runoffs. S8 and 16mm digitally buckled.
Neon Cortex
2020
NRMexican Erotica is a collective reappropriation film that explores sex and eroticism from various artistic and aesthetic points of view. A journey of textures, sensations and unmissable pleasures.
Mexican Erotica
2022
No synopsis available yet.
Materia Oscura
2016
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Selección de Jornadas de Reapropiación
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NRAudiovisual footage from the 54,000 page report, divided into 85 volumes (with 13 appendices) about the Iguala Case (the disappearance and presumed murder of 43 student activists by an organized crime group, in collusion with the local government in southern Mexico), made public by the federal attorney general office (PRG) in 2015.
Dark Matter
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Behind the camera
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Lila Downs - Lotería Cantada
2007
NRAn exercise in random materialistic cinema, scrolls inhabited by diverse structures and temporalities collapse in the development and scanning, become embedded in a common memory and end up weaving a set piece of light and vapors. Speculative fiction, vegetable narration, dream of seeds. Neon Bark is a whole learning curve, a potential movie. We expect looks and screens and many more runoffs. S8 and 16mm digitally buckled.
Neon Cortex
2020
NRMexican Erotica is a collective reappropriation film that explores sex and eroticism from various artistic and aesthetic points of view. A journey of textures, sensations and unmissable pleasures.
Mexican Erotica
2022
No synopsis available yet.
Materia Oscura
2016
No synopsis available yet.
Selección de Jornadas de Reapropiación
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NRAudiovisual footage from the 54,000 page report, divided into 85 volumes (with 13 appendices) about the Iguala Case (the disappearance and presumed murder of 43 student activists by an organized crime group, in collusion with the local government in southern Mexico), made public by the federal attorney general office (PRG) in 2015.
Dark Matter
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No synopsis available yet.
La transparencia
2015
No synopsis available yet.
Doble estenopo
2021
A Super 8 reel found and violently treated with chlorine. Destination Tokyo—a wartime propaganda film starring Cary Grant—serves as the seed for an almost ready-made film. The revenge for Pearl Harbor, or the atomic bomb is here anticipated. Alternative history and propaganda in the age of paranormal paranoia. The empire has always been here.
simulacra
2026
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Insolación
2005
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Colisión
2014
High-risk technical diagrams to observe minor presences. murmurs, sigils subtle forms of existence
Aguaespejo andino
2023
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Polen Negro
2025
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Monolito
2019
Asbstract short based on Torilla like images.
Tortilleria Chinantla
2005
Asbstract short based on Torilla like images.
Tortilleria Chinantla
2005
NRUsing outlines suggested in Valis by Phillip K Dick, the prototype is a manifestation of some superior intelligence since a lost and found 16mm coil contains a signal from the primal source.
El Prototipo
2023
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Papeles secundarios
2003
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Conjuro
2008
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Barrenador
2004
Bruno Varela shows his trip through the City of Stone with Felix Roque as a guide. In "Motherboard", make visible the different registers in which the memory can be saved, one of these possibilities is achieved when walking. Thus, the City of Stone is configured as a space where different stories have been recorded that can only be narrated by those who have crossed their paths and who can tell us the secrets that hides this place.
Motherboard
2016
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Desintegración
2018
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Tzompantli
2015
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Fauna Nociva
2015
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Objetos blancos
2022
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Volatilidad
2015
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Parque Colosio
2013
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Cuerpos Complementarios
2022
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Motor Cortex
2021
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Cristales Neón
2021
A log, with multiple formats, of an inner journey, a personal-aesthetic manifesto, an organic revision of audiovisual material recorded between 1994 and 2013 in various locations that range from small communities in Oaxaca and the capitol city of that state, to La Paz, Bolivia, or New York. Tiempo aire (Airtime) —made by the renowned visual artist and filmmaker Bruno Varela— alludes to that element which is necessary for the universe to continue, and which cinema requires in order to be consolidated.
Airtime
2014
NRNeon spores is a nahual film, totem and stone, broken mirror, seed, inscription. Underground tunnels communicating ancient times and spaces. Between plateaus and memories of other seas and other moons elements of speculative fiction, imaginary archeologies and meticulous collection of sherds and other embedded materials. Excavation cinema, earth-moving cinema to invariably find the dead and incomplete stories.
Neon Spores
2022
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Ráfaga
2012
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Políptico elemental
2022
NRimpure present / (thickened light) / dense times / badly curdled // Clotted within other clots / Sedimented emulsions, layers of the dissected world. // interface shapes / Exchange zones. spells, sigils / forms of subtle existence / light and time traps / /The program against the program / investigation from the smoking ruins of the capital cinema
presentes impuros (la luz espesada)
2023
NRIntermedium documentary that presents the outline of a missing character. Ghosts marching in recognition of their absence, hazy memory, fleeting vision assembled from scraps of orphaned material and drifting analog videos.
Estela
2013
No synopsis available yet.
Trans-apariencia-estéreo-voodoo
2024
No synopsis available yet.
Videogramas meridianos 1 (prediccionarias)
2019
NRMirages, heat strokes, entities that inhabit the mountain in the north bypass. Between valleys, border with the great mountains, observatory and crossing area. […] Every turn a thing rolls around another. […] Executed in a single movement, post-production in camera at the same time that it conjures and is in that trance of sun, mezcal, desire, ancestral clinamen, chaotic attractors in something that looks more like a ritual than filming. Execution, pulsation, drive, impulse, the cinema machine as an instrument, it is played, it is made love to, subtle and abrupt. Filmed with the hands, with the body. […] Almost fluid cosmic planes a single matter for all beings. Other spatialities and time intensities, such as insects, microbes, plants, stones, clouds. […] A gesture that invites you to do and not to look.
cada vuelta que da una cosa enrollada alrededor de otra
2020
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Videogramas meridianos 2 (hemisferios)
2019
