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Manuel Embalse

Manuel Embalse

Buenos Aires, 1991. Artist, amateur archeologist and film worker. He has a degree in Audiovisual Arts from UNA (Universidad Nacional del Arte).participated in 2019 Berlinale Talents BA as Director and in 2022 Berlinale Talents Berlin as Editor. He directs, writes, assists, produces, edits, and is also a musician and sound designer. From the age of 17 he recorded songs at home and as a soloist, he released 9 albums through the label Fuego Amigo Discos. He made music for plays, films and installations. He published two books of poems and founded a film magazine with other university classmates called “Felicidades”. He collects what attracts him from the street and made three books with garbage.

He directed, filmed, wrote, sounded, edited and produced the short films The universal history of reality (2013), Blue ice meditation (2014), Nature’s technology (2014), 2015 (2015), I won’t let you down (2015), Pray in a lottery (2016), Delete videos (2017), The natal chart of Argentina (2018), Encyclopedia Catalog (2020), What I’m doing in this world of sound? (2023) and First image from Mars (2023). He published three web series based on personal records: All income is paid (2014), The other side of the World Cup (2016) and Videodiaries (2019).

In 2019 he won the Audiovisual Experimentation Award of the Young Biennial of Art to produce “What I’m doing in this visual world?”, debut feature that portrays the life of Zezé Fassmor, a blind artist from Peru. Premiered in 2020 in the Argentine Feature Film Competition of Festifreak, it went through several festivals and international exhibitions (special mention in FICE 2020, Perso 2021, This Human World 2021, FAVEPP 2021 and Doc Bahía Blanca 2021). It had its commercial theatrical release in Argentina at the Gaumont Cinema, Film Museum of Buenos Aires and Cineclub Municipal Hugo del Carril in Córdoba; in Colombia at the Cinemateca in Bogotá and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellín, and in Bolivia it was screened in cities such as La Paz, El Alto, Sucre, Cochabamba and Tarija.

As a collaborator on other films, he was assistant director and musician on Francisco Bouzas’ “La espada del tiempo” (2016); assistant director and editor on Aimará Schwieters’ “Embopa” (2020); editor with Tatiana Mazú González on Joaquín Maito’s “Owner’s Portrait” (Best First Feature at its premiere at IDFF Ji. hlava 2018); assistant director, assistant editor and additional cameraman of “Shady River” by Tatiana Mazú González (Charles de Beauregard Award at its premiere at FIDMarseille 2020); editor with Manque La Banca, director of “Ski” (premiered at Berlinale Forum 2021 and received the FIPRESCI award); co-editor of “Passwords” by Delfina Sirota (premiered at BAFICI 2021); editor of “Moheda” by Julián García Long (premiered at FIPADOC 2022 and produced by Le Fresnoy); editor and sound designer on “A summer love” by Eline Marx (with premiere at Festifreak 2021); sound designer on “Danube” by Agustina Pérez Rial (Best Director in the Argentine Competition at Mar del Plata Film Festival 2021); sound designer on Stefano Storchi’s “Argirópolis” (premiering at BAFICI 2022 and produced by the Young Biennial of Art 2021) and editor on Julián García Long’s “The despair of the monkeys” (premiering at CineAutopsia 2022 and produced by Le Fresnoy).

He’s currently distributing his second feature film “The new ruins”, which received support from INCAA, Mecenazgo, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, and participated in LABEX, Atelier Talents Buenos Aires, TransLab, Fidocs Docs In Progress and the Young Biennial of Art.