Biography
Andrés Barón is a Colombian filmmaker based in Paris. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, he has developed a highly distinctive artistic practice, blending cinema, video, and photography. His work explores the transformation of images through screens and networks, playing with spaces of representation.
His works have been showcased in prestigious venues and festivals, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives in New York, Images Festival in Toronto, LA Film Forum, and Le Bal in Paris. In 2018, he was shortlisted for the Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo. More recently, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès dedicated a solo exhibition to him at the Cristallerie de Saint-Louis. In 2023, in collaboration with DS Galerie, Andrés Barón participated in the first edition of “Salon d’été” at Maison Louis Carré, where a selection of his films was presented.
Project
In Providenza, he completed the writing and the first part of an experimental sci-fi short film titled Cursinu Fantasma, which follows the perspective of a dog (a Corsican breed) sent by a scientific commission to explore and collect images and sounds from the as-yet-unexplored garden of ‘Gyre.’ The film reveals dizzying and colorful images of the island’s landscapes, seen through the dog’s eyes, accompanied by an immersive and organic soundtrack, created mainly through field recordings around Providenza blended with modern sounds from wind instruments and drones. Through this form of synesthesia, where sounds become colors, textures, or even words, the filmmaker creates a contrast and dissonance with the images, offering a fragmented portrait of the symbiotic relationship between the animal and the landscape.
By observing interactions between humans and their dogs, he delved into the reciprocal bonds that grow stronger over time and allow a form of nonverbal communication through the depth of the human-animal relationship.
Shot in Corsica and edited/recorded at the Providenza studio, the first part of the film was screened in a field overlooking the Saint-Florent gulf at nightfall, during the residency restitution festival.
A prequel to his first feature film currently in development, Gyre’s Galax, the short film will soon be presented at international festivals.
