elisa leiva anderson
BERLINALE Shorts, 2024 (Berlin International Film Festival)
NYFF Currents, 2024 (New York Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center)
HKIFF, 2024 (Hong Kong International Film Festival)
FICCI, 2024 (Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias)
BIEFF, 2024 - Best Visual Concept (International Experimental Film Festival Bucharest)
FICVIÑA, 2025 - Best Short Film (Festival Internacional de Cine de Viña - Chile)
Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay - Best Short Film
Festival Silhouette Paris - Jury Prize
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PRESS
directed by luciana merino blamey / pascal viveros ● edited by elisa leiva anderson
directed by luciana merino blamey / pascal viveros ● edited by elisa leiva anderson
RIPEAR UN DESIERTO (2023)
to burn a desert
5’12 - nerf, digital transfer - color
The mass of discarded clothing left to rot in the Atacama Desert is an ominous sight, a haunting monument to the excesses of fast fashion. Through generative AI and photogrammetry, new visual narratives emerge from these textile graveyards: technologies that aestheticize the excesses of capitalist overproduction, transforming waste into beauty while obscuring the structural violence that produces it.to burn a desert
5’12 - nerf, digital transfer - color
+RAIN FILM FESTIVAL, 2024 (Barcelona, Spain)
Seoul New Media Film Festival, 2024 (Seoul, Korea)
Seoul New Media Film Festival, 2024 (Seoul, Korea)
directed by felipe elgueta ● edited by elisa leiva anderson
directed by felipe elgueta ● edited by elisa leiva anderson
Esta casa aúlla (2025)
15’ - digital 4K - b&w ● IN DISTRIBUTION
19 images. Postcards of mourning. Someone dies, yet two women remain in silence. There is no movement or passage of time. Only a house that howls with sorrow, until a mysterious creature disrupts their grief.
directed by ignacia wall ● edited by elisa leiva anderson
in distribution
directed by ignacia wall ● edited by elisa leiva anderson
in distribution
in distribution
in distribution
in distribution
in distribution
Después de la bomba (2025)
7’ - 16mm, digital transfer - b&w ● IN DISTRIBUTION
After moving from Chile to the United States, a daughter begins to confront the silence surrounding her family’s political past. Grappling with memory and inherited trauma, she navigates the lasting impact of U.S. intervention in Chile, and is haunted by the political violence inflicted by the very land she now inhabits.
Directing, editing, cinematography, sound design by elisa leiva anderson
in distribution
Directing, editing, cinematography, sound design by elisa leiva anderson
in distribution
in distribution
in distribution
VISTAS (2016)
6’50 - digital hd, archive - color
Images taken from YouTube compose a catastrophic panorama, where the improvised camera operators seek to place themselves alongside the disaster. Earthquakes, fires, and volcanic eruptions are captured in the immediacy of the moment—archives that turn destruction into landscape, and socionatural disasters into the spark of revolt.
FICVALDIVIA (2016) - Valdivia International Film Festival
FIDOCS (2016) - Santiago International Documentary Film Festival
FIDOCS (2016) - Santiago International Documentary Film Festival
DIRECTING, editing, cinematography, sound design by elisa leiva anderson / Ignacia Wall
field notes i took while
looking for...
looking for...
15’ - digital 4K, archive - color ● IN POST
In a laboratory in California’s Central Valley, a berry is cut open, revealing traces of chloropicrin, a chemical used in both pesticides and tear gas. Through this dissection, the film uncovers the intertwined legacies of chemical warfare, export agriculture, and the control of land and bodies across hemispheres.
DIRECTING, editing, cinematography, sound design by elisa leiva anderson
in post
in post
in post
in post
película sin fin, 1995
70’ -digital 4k, archival - color ● in development
70’ -digital 4k, archival - color ● in development
filmmaker statement
Película sin fin, 1995 unfolds through the fragmented images of an unfinished film about my grandmother, Fabiola Letelier, a Chilean human rights lawyer who resisted the Pinochet dictatorship. Her brother, Orlando Letelier, was assassinated in a car bomb in Washington D.C., orchestrated with CIA complicity. Through the act of revisiting 20 hours of unedited archival footage, I confront a legacy of political resistance and personal grief, reflecting on how memory is constructed, images are inherited, and history is both recorded and imagined.