Bio

Frame and a Half is not fully contained.

Camilo Barria, born in 1973, works with Super 8, 16mm, and archival footage. His films move between personal visual journals and visual essays.

He explores the poetical interplay between images to develop layers of meaning rather than their surrogacy to the written word, blending fiction and documentary outside formal linear structures and closer to a narrative palimpsest. Born to Chilean political refugees, he grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, where he attended the Universidad Central de Venezuela, graduating with honors with a BA in Sociology focused on Politics, Social Theory, and Cultural Studies. His early experiences with displacement and alienation shaped his identity and vision. Barria's films often move around displacement and the unstable border between document and memory.

His work has been screened at film festivals and institutions such as Film-Maker's Coop 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 the Millennium Film Workshop.

A self-taught filmmaker, he has studied independently with video artist and author Navid Sinaki and former AFI Head of the Directing Program Peter Markham.

He is a current member of Jonas Mekas-founded The Film-Maker's Cooperative / New American Cinema Group New York.

He 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