Laura Huertas Millan is a multifaceted filmmaker and visual artist, whose creative endeavors seamlessly converge the realms of cinema, contemporary art, and research.
Her cinematic endeavors have garnered recognition at esteemed film festivals worldwide, including the Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Cinéma du Réel, to name a few. Her films have also won prestigious awards at the Locarno Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Doclisboa, and Videobrasil, among others.
In addition to her cinematic achievements, Huertas Millan has organized over twenty retrospectives and focus exhibitions of her work in prominent cinematheques and film festivals globally, including Toronto's TIFF Lightbox, Harvard's Film Archive, and Bogota's cinematheque, as well as leading film festivals such as Mar del Plata and Rencontres du Documentaire de Montreal.
In the art world, her solo exhibitions have been showcased at renowned institutions like the MASP Sao Paulo, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, and Medellin's Modern Art Museum. Her films have also been exhibited and screened in prominent art institutions, including the Centre Pompidou Paris, Jeu de Paume, Guggenheim Museum NY, and Times Art Berlin, as well as biennials such as Liverpool, FRONT Triennial, Videobrasil, and Videonnale. Her work is part of private and public collections, including Kadist, CNAP, Banco de la República de Colombia, CIFO, FRAC Lorraine, and others.
Huertas Millan holds a practice-based PhD on "Ethnographic Fictions" developed between PSL University's SACRe program and the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. She works as an educator in academic and alternative settings. Since 2019, Huertas Millan has collaborated with curator and writer Rachael Rakes on critical anthropology and the aesthetics and politics of the encounter as part of a research-based duo.
