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Alexandra Cuesta

Alexandra Cuesta

Known for

Directing

Birthplace

Cuenca, Ecuador

Biography

Alexandra Cuesta is a filmmaker and artist who lives and works between the United States and Ecuador. Her films combine documentary practices, experimental traditions and visual anthropology. An observer with a pressing curiosity of the world around her, she is interested in documenting the everyday, the ordinary, and believes that cinema is the vehicle to highlight and transcend the poetics of the common experience. Often behind the camera, she finds a connection to the world and to the subjects of her films. She is drawn to stories that exist in the in-between spaces, both in the public and the private spheres - an African poet passing through a Mexican-American neighborhood, the invisibil...

Best known work

Territorio

Territorio

2016
Lungta

Lungta

2022
Manu: A Visual Album

Manu: A Visual Album

2023
Think of Me

Think of Me

2009
Recordando El Ayer

Recordando El Ayer

2007
Beirut 2.14.05

Beirut 2.14.05

Farewell

Farewell

2013
Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part I

Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part I

2020
Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part II, Carmela

Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part II, Carmela

2020
DESLUMBRANTE OSCURIDAD

DESLUMBRANTE OSCURIDAD

2026

Filmography

  1. TBA

    Beirut 2.14.05

    Director

  2. 2026

    DESLUMBRANTE OSCURIDAD

    Director of Photography

  3. 2023

    Manu: A Visual Album

    Director, Producer

  4. 2022

    Lungta

    Director

  5. 2020

  6. 2020

  7. 2016

    Territorio

    Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Director

  8. 2013

    Farewell

    Director

  9. 2009

    Think of Me

    Director

  10. 2007

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