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"I'm in love with the film Temple Island with Eddie Martinez.  

Eddie Martinez is an amazing giver and Anto at that moment became a thankful and abundant receiver. I thought a lot about it. True, real and made me think as a viewer, how dance and body were for humans at the beginning. Perhaps people were dancing all the time when they would feel intimate. I also read  that our body develops instructions at the age  1-2 and stays in our memory all life. It’s call just 'being at the moment'. Anto did a very powerful film!"

Almagul Menlibayeva (Visual Artist)

WHY DO I MAKE FILMS?

As a queer Latin American artist I make films to break conventions because I want newer generations of minorities to feel represented. I believe that today we live in a multicultural, gender fluid world where cultural boundaries and traditions are shifting and film is a powerful tool that can motivate and display these changes.

BIO

experimental narrative I 34min I super16 I Chile

BENEATH THE LIGHT/
BAJO LA LUZ

Beneath The Light is a film that experiments with narrative to explore different mental/emotional states of the character. The film is not intended to tell a story but rather to open doors and portals to situations that can be ordinary or extra-ordinary. Situations that we could all somehow experience during our lives. I consider this to be a dance film and much of the acting, editing and filming constitutes a choreography that develops in time. In the link below you can check my DP/Director's Reel for a quick view of my work.

Anto (they/them) is a queer experimental filmmaker, curator and performance artist from Santiago, Chile, living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Rooted in physical theater, Anto explores dynamic interconnections between experimental narrative, poetic documentary filmmaking and performance art.
Anto has taught 16mm film production, experimental film, dance film and performance at Emerson College, Keene State College and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Anto is one of the founding members of the AgX Film Collective, taking the role of organizing screenings to promote alternative practices in filmmaking.
Anto is a 2017 Flaherty Seminar Ford Foundation Curatorial Fellow and a 2020 Oberhausen Film Festival Seminar Fellow (postponed due to Covid-19 crisis). Their recent work has screened in several venues, including Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, Echo Park Film Center, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Artifact Small Format Film Festival, Crater-Lab, Zumzeig CineCooperativa, Hot Bits Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, DocMontevideo and Craig Baldwin’s film series Other Cinema in San Francisco. Currently, Anto curates film screenings as an independent programmer. Since January, 2020 Anto has been touring with an experimental film screening about Chile’s recent social uprising "The People’s Revolt" (the films have been touring virtually due to the Covid-19 crisis).