Magdalena Orellana[1︎︎︎] was born in Buenos Aires, but she currently films[2︎︎︎], designs[3︎︎︎], and scans[4︎︎︎] in Madrid. She once wrote a manual[5︎︎︎] about how to transit any IKEA store and, a few years ago, she saw Roy singing Cher[6︎︎︎]. Contact: mgdlnorellana (at) gmail.com
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Magdalena Orellana
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[ short bio.]
is an Argentinian filmmaker, artist, and designer based in Madrid. Her work intersects fiction and non-fiction across film, sound, photography, and design. She is currently working as a freelance graphic designer and filmmaker, while developing her first feature film, Hasta que el lugar se haga improbable (Until The Place Becomes Improbable), alongside her latest research project, Perpetual Radiance (October 2024 – March 2025, In Situ Program Grantee at the Cité Internationale des Arts in partnership with the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso).

[medium bio.]
is an Argentinian filmmaker, artist, and designer based in Madrid. Her work intersects fiction and non-fiction across film, sound, photography, and design. She focuses on the everyday and the ordinary, exploring how these elements shape our experience of public spaces. Interested in the interplay between collective and individual experiences, she often experiments with language, diverse formats, and genres. She has been an artist-in-residence at La Casa Encendida – CA2M (Madrid, 2019), Matadero Madrid (2020), and V2_ Lab for The Unstable Media (Rotterdam, 2019). She was a 2017-2018 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Fellow, and a 2021 Ikusmira Berriak Fellow, and a 2024-2025 In Situ Program Grantee at the Cité Internationale des Arts, in partnership with the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso. Currently, she is developing her first feature film, Hasta que el lugar se haga improbable (Until The Place Becomes Improbable) and working on her latest research project, Perpetual Radiance.

[long bio.]
is an Argentinian filmmaker, artist, and designer based in Madrid. Her work intersects fiction and non-fiction across film, sound, photography, and design. She focuses on the everyday and the ordinary, exploring how these elements shape our experience of public spaces. Interested in the interplay between collective and individual experiences, she often experiments with language, diverse formats, and genres. She studied Image and Sound Design at the Architecture, Design and Urbanism School of the University of Buenos Aires (2014), graduated from Madrid’s film school ECAM with a diploma in Documentary Filmmaking (2017), and obtained a postgraduate degree in Filmmaking Studies at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (Basque Country University, San Sebastián, 2020), where she produced one of her latest short films, All this is even more intense, premiered at Zinebi (Bilbao, Spain, 2021). She has also been an artist-in-residence at La Casa Encendida — CA2M (Madrid, 2019), Matadero Madrid (2020), V2_ Lab for The Unstable Media (Rotterdam, 2019) with the support of Hangar (Barcelona), MRG Work (Madrid, 2020, Márgenes Film Festival), CRA Matadero Madrid (2021), X Films (Pamplona, 2022, Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra), and the Ibermedia program for Iberoamerican films under development (Madrid, 2022). She was a 2017-2018 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Fellow, and a 2021 Ikusmira Berriak Fellow,
and a 2024-2025 In Situ Program Grantee at the Cité Internationale des Arts, in partnership with the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso.
Her works have been shown at venues such as The Film-Makers' Coop (New York), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), Cineteca (Madrid), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), MediaLab Prado (Madrid), BilbaoArte (Bilbao), CCCB (Barcelona), Tabakalera (San Sebastián), Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid, and Matadero Madrid, among others. She is currently working as a graphic designer and filmmaker while developing her first feature film, Hasta que el lugar se haga improbable (Until The Place Becomes Improbable) and her latest research project, Perpetual Radiance.

Updated on Sept. 16 2024.