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Author Cristóbal Escobar

Cristóbal Escobar

Cristóbal Escobar is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at The University of Melbourne and a Film Programmer for the Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS). He co-edited the ‘Film and Nonhuman’ Dossier with Barbara Creed for Senses of Cinema (Issue 109), and their second volume on the same topic is forthcoming with the University of Exeter Press in 2026. Cristóbal is also the author of The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) and editor of Cine Cartográfico (LaFuga Ediciones, 2017). His current research focuses on the concept of mestizaje in contemporary Latin American cinema.

Cinema Takes Place in the Imagination: A Day with Antoine Thirion

Cristóbal Escobar
January 2026
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During his visit to the Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago (FIDOCS) 2025, film critic and programmer Antoine Thirion offered a masterclass to film students in which he recounted the experiences ...

The Expression of the Hands: In Conversation with Jessica Sarah Rinland

Cristóbal Escobar
January 2026
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For over a decade, the films of Argentine experimental filmmaker, Jessica Sarah Rinland, have unfolded as spaces of discovery where touch performs a kind of thinking that reveals more intuitive ways of knowing....

“It is a paradox: repression produces excess”: Su Hui-Yu on Re-shooting History

Cristóbal Escobar
January 2026
Interviews
There are audiovisual artists for whom cinema is a medium of historical reanimation. In the works of Taiwanese filmmaker and artist Su Hui-Yu, the camera does precisely that: it documents bodies that resurrect ...

“Nothing Needs To Exist”: In Conversation with Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

Cristóbal Escobar
November 2025
Interviews
Many worlds are walked in the world. Many worlds are made. Many worlds make us The world we want is a world where many worlds fit. – Fourth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle, Zapatista Army of National L...

In Conversation with Tatiana Huezo

Cristóbal Escobar
January 2025
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As part of the retrospective dedicated to Tatiana Huezo at the 28th edition of the Santiago International Documentary Festival (FIDOCS), the Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker shares with us her vision and trajectory...

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