Carlos Gómez Salamanca

Writing

Carlos Gómez Salamanca

Place of birth

Colombia

Known for

Writing

Credits

8 titles

Colombian filmmaker specialized in animation, experimental art, and immersive experiences. He has directed the short films Carne, Lupus, and Yugo. His work has been awarded at festivals in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. In 2023, he received the National Award for Audiovisual Creation in Experimental Media (COL) and was nominated for the César Awards (FR). He has served as an international jury member at the Annecy Festival (FR), Havana Film Festival (CU), APA LAB (ARG), Animasivo (CDMX), Festival Equinoxio, and at IDARTES open calls in Bogotá (COL).

Known for

Behind the camera

No artwork available
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A powerful drug sparks a violent uprising of the homeless aimed at overturning established power, built around the loaded Bogotá slur “disposables” for people living on the streets.

Disposable

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No artwork available
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A powerful drug sparks a violent uprising of the homeless aimed at overturning established power, built around the loaded Bogotá slur “disposables” for people living on the streets.

Disposable

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Carne poster
NR

31 animated sequences that reveal isolated, tangential actions around the sacrifice of an animal during a rural celebration in Colombia. These sequences construct a narrative that aims to create a void, a system in which the different scenes function as echoes around an uncertain and disturbing event, linked to the latent image of a destroyed body.

Carne

2025

Carne poster
NR

31 animated sequences that reveal isolated, tangential actions around the sacrifice of an animal during a rural celebration in Colombia. These sequences construct a narrative that aims to create a void, a system in which the different scenes function as echoes around an uncertain and disturbing event, linked to the latent image of a destroyed body.

Carne

2025

Yugo poster
5.0

A and N, a couple of peasants create an informal metallurgy workshop in the outskirts of Bogotá in the hope of a better life. The social, environmental and organic consequences they must endure in order to adapt to the industrial capitalism that storms Latin America affects dramatically their relationship and their history.

Yugo

2022

Yugo poster
5.0

A and N, a couple of peasants create an informal metallurgy workshop in the outskirts of Bogotá in the hope of a better life. The social, environmental and organic consequences they must endure in order to adapt to the industrial capitalism that storms Latin America affects dramatically their relationship and their history.

Yugo

2022

Lupus poster
4.9

In December 2011, a security guard was killed by a pack of stray dogs prowling in a poor neighbourhood on the Bogota suburbs.

Lupus

2016

Lupus poster
4.9

In December 2011, a security guard was killed by a pack of stray dogs prowling in a poor neighbourhood on the Bogota suburbs.

Lupus

2016