
Elena Pardo
- Known for
- Directing
Elena Pardo is a visual artist and documentary, experimental and animation filmmaker living in Mexico City. She explores the possibilities offered by photochemical films for preserving and capturing images, working in a laboratory. Since 2005, she has been a member of the extended film collective Trinchera Ensamble. She is also co-founder and current director of Laboratorio Experimental de Cine [Experimental Film Laboratory] (LEC), an artistic project that came into being in 2013. LEC engages in the dissemination, production, educational activities and programming of content in different cinematic formats.
Filmography

Painting/Retoque TBA
Editor

On the Inside We are Color 2026
Director

On the inside we are color 2024
Director

Nanacatepec 2024
Director

Underground Pulses 2023
Director

Leave What Scares You 2023
Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography, Editor

Máquinas de palabras 2023
Director

On the Nature of the Bone 2022
Director

Inventario Churubusco 2018
Director

De la Naturaleza del Hueso 2018
Director

Life on Mars 2016
Art Direction

Desaparecer 2016
Director

The Exile 2015
Art Direction

Lila Downs - Pecados y Milagros 2012
Director

Children’s Game #13: Piñata 2012
Camera Operator, Producer

Children’s Game #12: Musical Chairs 2012
Camera Operator, Producer

Children’s Game #11: Wolf and Lamb 2011
Editor

Children’s Game #10: Papalote 2011
Editor

The Very Best Of/El Alma de Lila Downs 2009
Editor

Mi Barrio 2009
Director

Lila Downs - Lotería Cantada 2007
Producer, Director, Camera Operator

Lives for Sale 2007
Cinematography

Tierra 2005
Director

Juquilita 2004
Director

Fuego 2003
Director
Credits from TMDB.