Marcelo Lagreze is a Director, Editor, and Photographer based in Santiago, Chile. He studied Film and Television at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. His practice is distinguished by conceiving editing as part of the shooting process itself, working with minimal devices and logistics, where an economy of means does not limit artistic ambition but rather concentrates it.
Over the past decade, he has turned the mobile phone into both a primary tool and a cinematic language, developing a recognizable voice within mobile filmmaking. His work has been selected and awarded at international festivals. Among his short films are “Utopia of the Outraged” (2020), “(PAUSE)” (2021), and “Before the Sands Return to the Sea” (2024), which deepens this poetic line centered on movement, memory, and perception.
His short film “Where Time Breathes” (2025), shot in the Galápagos Islands, explores a sensorial relationship between human presence and environment, where the marine pulse and the breath of the landscape propose an attentive pause. Within this trajectory, “The Voice We Have Left…” (2026) marks a shift toward a more direct documentary approach, focused on people and what is at stake, while maintaining the formal rigor that defines his work.
