Bio

Frame and a Half is not fully contained.

Camilo Barria, born in 1973, works with Super 8, 16mm, archival footage, and on-location visual journals. His films move between fiction, documentary, and visual essay, building meaning through fragments rather than linear narration.

The work treats images as relations: light, place, weather, architecture, gesture, and memory placed into unstable sequence. Language remains secondary. Meaning emerges through montage, texture, recurrence, and absence.

Born to Chilean political activists and shaped by exile and migration, Barria’s films often return to displacement, disappearance, and the unstable border between document and memory.

His work has screened at The Film-Makers’ Cooperative New Year/New Work, American Cinematheque’s This Is Not a Fiction, Analogica, Martovski Film Festival, New Jersey Film Festival, Rutgers University, West Virginia University, Videodrome, Kinoskop, and Millennium Film Workshop.

He holds a BA in Sociology with a concentration in politics and social theory. He has studied directing independently with Navid Sinaki and Peter Markham.

Member, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative / New American Cinema Group.
Lives and works in California.

Festivals Selections
& Recognitions

Films

Light, Protect Me from Oblivion
United States, 2023
7 min / Super 8, 16mm / Color & B&W / 1.33:1 / Stereo / No dialogue

Postcards from Last Summer
United States, 2021
14 min 40 sec / 16mm / Color & B&W / 1.37:1 / Stereo / English dialogue

Look at the Clouds
United States, 2021
3 min 22 sec / Archival footage, digital / 1.33:1 / Stereo / No dialogue

Far Within Reach
United States, 2021
4 min 50 sec / Archival footage, digital / 1.33:1 / Stereo / No dialogue