Andrés Jurado is an artist, filmmaker, researcher, and producer whose work inhabits the intersections between experimental and expanded cinema, archives, counter-archives, contemporary art, propaganda, theater, extraterrestrials, the space race, and its impact on the construction of contemporary narratives and politics. He is the co-founder and co-director of La Vulcanizadora Laboratorio de Cine Experimental y Teatro Expandido.
His film El Renacer del Carare (2020) received a Special Mention in the Flash Competition at the 31st FIDMarseille in 2020 and the Audience Award at the Panorama of Colombian Cinema in Paris (2021). His most recent short film, Yarokamena (2022), premiered at the 72nd Berlinale Forum Expanded and received an Honorable Mention at DocLisboa, Portugal. His film Bienvenidos Conquistadores Interplanetarios y del Espacio Sideral (2024) was part of the Premiere Film Competition at FIDMarseille and has been screened in numerous international festivals.
He holds a Master’s in Visual Arts from UNAM - Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Academia de San Carlos, where he received an Honorable Mention, and a Ph.D. with distinction in Theater Studies from the Centro de Estudios de Teatro at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has given lectures and presentations at MoMA and Columbia University and participated in the Zonas de Disturbio seminar at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MuAC-Mexico), as well as in the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) in 2012 and 2013. As coordinator of the Politics of Fiction group at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, he participated in sessions at Duke University (2012), NYU (2013), and UCLA (2014). Additionally, he was part of the Forensic Architecture team in the research and exhibition Traces of Disappearance, which examined land dispossession, enforced disappearances, and deforestation in Colombia, in collaboration with the Colombian Truth Commission.
He is also the producer of María Rojas’ films, Abrir Monte (2021) and Jirapo (2025). Andrés has been selected by Museo Reina Sofía, DocLisboa, and FIDMarseille for the Joaquim Jordà Residency 2025.
