Mujer Partera (Financing)

Teaser of the film Mujer Partera, which is currently in the funding stage. The documentary has been selected to be part of the development labs of Plataforma Mx, Docs Lab Mx, RIDM Montreal, and Miradas at the Tenerife Festival.

Dirección: Valentina Ortega Backhoff
Co-guionista: Julia Bonetto
Producción: Carlos Alberto Cuesy y Antonia Lema

La trompa del diablo (post)
Short documentary about the self-representation of the San Cipriano community in Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

Dirección: Sebastián Macias
Fotografía: Valentina Ortega Backhoff

Garay 325 (2019)
Over the course of three years, many have passed through Garay 325. It's a house and a maze at the same time, a refuge and a confinement, a magical and maddening place. Garay 325 belongs to everyone and to no one. It was slavery, yellow fever, dictatorship, and it was death. It's San Telmo and it's Buenos Aires. A house of over a hundred years where whatever happened remains imprinted on its walls and lingers in its air.

Dirección: Valentina Ortega Backhoff
Fotografía: Diego Piedras y Valentina Ortega Backhoff
Edición: Julián Ospina

Terremoto (2018)
While Mexico City, which had embraced me for several years and where most of my friends lived, was collapsing and being rebuilt, Buenos Aires, a city that doesn’t shake, maintained its stillness.

Realización: Valentina Ortega Backhoff

Violencia (2014)
Living far from Mexico but really affected by the incidents that where taking place on my country I decided to create a video where I can show a bit of the terrible things that were happening.
Part of an exposition in "Parque Lage", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Realización: Valentina Ortega Backhoff
Fotografía CDMX: Simón Ortega

6 x 5 (2014)
I made 6x5 from my window in Rio, on the eleventh floor of the multifamily building where I lived. The city throbbed with the same anxiety that my heart was feeling at that moment. It was what I saw every day, and at the same time, it was part of what contributed to the anxiety that overwhelmed me. Placing the camera overhead, capturing all that chaos of the space I inhabited and of my mind in general, was a way to position my body above the anxiety, allowing me to feel it from a place where I could control it, instead of it controlling me.
Part of an exposition in "Antiga Fabriga de Bhering" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Realización: Valentina Ortega Backhoff