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Cagliostro Cinema

Contact:

cagliostro.cinema@gmail.com

Web:

www.cagliostro.cl →

Address:

Santiago

We are an independent audiovisual production company with a collective spirit. We work at the edges of cinema and non-cinema, exploring the video essay, audiovisual collage, and diverse forms of montage-based documentary. We move between original footage, personal archives, and disparate materials—historical, digital, and viral—to open new ways of seeing and thinking images, where the political and the affective intertwine.

Interests

Our mission is to support author-driven projects with political, social, and ecological engagement that overflow traditional formats. We promote international co-productions aligned with this vision. We focus on expanded non-fiction—video essay, audiovisual collage, montage-based documentary, and hybrid forms—where archive, memory, and affect operate as creative engines.

Services

We produce non-fiction works and approach editing and montage through alternative narratives and strategies of appropriation (found footage, montage documentary). We accompany projects throughout their entire development—conceptualization, design of the device, financing, shooting, and post-production. We also offer consulting and workshops in experimental film and video, critical use of archives, and audiovisual language. Additionally, we manage distribution and audience engagement in festivals, universities, and community screenings.

Projects

Jack Mackerel Salmon Style

In development

From a table in Santiago’s Central Market, a journalist investigates the impact of salmon farming. Without leaving the set, the “journey” through various layers—found footage, television, Patagonian recordings—turns into a satirical essay in which the Jack Mackerel Salmon becomes a pop emblem of the culture of deception, and the Norwegian narrative of “sustainability” clashes with a post-dictatorship Chile shaped by neoliberalism, kitsch, and post-truth.

La Casa Azul

In development

A group of former residents of child protection centers construct, from their memories, an imagined house whose walls hold the voices and silences of their childhood spent away from their biological families. In this symbolic refuge, perspectives and experiences intertwine in a collective narrative where each room awakens lived moments and each recalled object becomes a bridge toward belonging, re-signifying home and transforming absence into a new place to inhabit.

Team