My work explores the intimate, the poetic, and the real through image-making and documentary cinema.
Visual experiences where memory and contemplation coexist.
Through audiovisual creation, I seek to capture what often goes unnoticed,
inviting viewers to pause and look more deeply.
BIOGRAFÍA
Josefina Morandé Ruiz-Tagle is a graphic designer trained at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile. She studied under influential teachers such as architect Alberto Cruz, José Balcells, Claudio Girola, and poet Godofredo Iommi, whose teachings introduced her to observation and artistic creation as fundamental aspects of life. In 2001, she began working in the audiovisual field. She studied Film and Editing at FX ANIMATION Barcelona 3D & Film School in Barcelona, where she also carried out projects for Fundació Foto Colectania. She later studied Video Art at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Film from the Academia de Humanismo Cristiano University. She directed and produced her first feature-length documentary, Today and Not Tomorrow (Hoy y no Mañana), which premiered through Miradoc in 2018. The film received the National Institute of Human Rights Award for its outstanding contribution to the promotion and defense of human rights through documentary cinema at the 22nd edition of FIDOCS – Santiago International Documentary Film Festival. In 2023, she premiered her second documentary feature, The Absolute Gift: The Story of Sebastián Acevedo (El Don Absoluto, la historia de Sebastián Acevedo), which received both the Best Feature Film Award and the Audience Award at the 16th edition of FECICH – Chilean Film Festival.Both documentaries are available on the free streaming platform OndaMedia.cl. She currently works as an independent audiovisual filmmaker and graphic designer.
