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Gonzalo Escobar Mora

Visual Artist & Experimental Filmmaker
2018 Make a Wave
Visual Arts

Gonzalo Escobar Mora is an artist who wants to be filmmaker, and a filmmaker who wants to be an artist. He loves this confusion. Gonzalo received a Master of Arts in Film Directing from the Sarajevo Film Academy and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work encompasses short films, installations, video art, documentaries, film essay, animations, and more.

He questions formal definitions and narrative structures, exploring intersections between the personal and the political. He has worked on a variety of projects throughout Latin America, Europe, and the United States. As a citizen of the world, he continues exploring and stretching the aforementioned confusion.

Featured Artworks

  •  Gonzalo Escobar Mora artwork Enthusiasts 15min
  •  Gonzalo Escobar Mora artwork 2 years, 2 months, 2 days kinetic installation (nail clippings, motors, motion sensor, light, pedestal, fabric)
  •  Gonzalo Escobar Mora artwork Social Economies 22 min
  •  Gonzalo Escobar Mora artwork Pool Version 20 min
  •  Gonzalo Escobar Mora artwork Amongst Us 18 min
  •  Gonzalo Escobar Mora artwork de-formas video installation
  •  Gonzalo Escobar Mora artwork Accidentally Sprayed (experimental documentary) 26min
  •  Gonzalo Escobar Mora artwork tHERE co-directed with Carolina Gonzalez Valencia 50min
  •  Gonzalo Escobar Mora artwork Ni patria ni marido (animated music video)

Gonzalo Escobar Mora has crowd-funded a project with 3AP

    • $1,025 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 39 Days 12:20:48 LEFT
      • 17% funded
      • 83% to go

    After a great loss, what do we keep at heart? RETENTION is based on a true story of a mother, who, in order to continue with her life, defiantly requests a meeting with the young man who murdered her son. Restorative justice, reality, and fiction come …

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