Alexandra Cuesta is a filmmaker and photographer born in Cuenca, Ecuador who lives and works between Los Angeles and Quito. Her poetic films and videos combine experimental film traditions with documentary practices, and often comment on social diasporas and displacement. Her work has screened at The New York Film Festival, Fronteira Festival, Guggenheim Museum, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Viennale, Palacio Nacioanl de Bellas Artes, Oberhausen, FiD Marseille, Anthology Film Archives, among others. She has an M.F.A in Film and Video from CalArts.
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