Biography

Artist and researcher. Professor at the Communications Department of Iberoamericana University, where he coordinates the photography lab and is head of the Master in Film programme. Pablo’s work bridges memory, territory and identity through film, photography, multimedia and writing. He has exhibited individually at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Interactive Museum of Economics, Spain’s Cultural Center in Mexico and Mexico’s National Museum of Art. Amongst his films are Ciudad Merced (2013), La Película (2014), So Much Light (2015) and The Monopoly of Memory (2018). His multimedia work includes pieces such as the web-documentaries Santos Diableros & Momento MX , and the interactive poem and installation Poema Panorama. His films have been screened in over 10 countries, he has published novel, poetry and essay, being his most recent book The Powers of the Image: Body and Death in the Audiovisual Culture (Ibero, 2018). He has received awards in Brazil, India, USA and Mexico. Since 2014, he is partner of longtime filmmaker Gregorio Rocha in a film preservation and lab-museum called Anarchivia, located in the world famous Estudios Churubusco. He has published novel, poetry and essay, and writes for magazines and websites in Mexico and abroad. In 2016, as professor at Ibero University, he founded the Laboratorio Iberoamericano de Documental (Iberoamerican Documentary Lab), which he heads since. He has been guest lecturer and speaker at EICTV Cuba, University of Southern California, Emerson College Boston, Zurich University of the Arts, University of Copenhagen, among others . He is a member of the Iberoamerican Chair in Transmedia Narratives and of the Memory Studies Association. He holds an MSc. by Research in Digital Media and Culture by the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Media by Universidad Iberoamericana.Read More...