Alexandra Cuesta is a filmmaker and artist who lives and works between the United States and Ecuador. Her films combine documentary practices, experimental traditions and visual anthropology. An observer with a pressing curiosity of the world around her, she is interested in documenting the everyday, the ordinary, and believes that cinema is the vehicle to highlight and transcend the poetics of the common experience. Often behind the camera, she finds a connection to the world and to the subjects of her films. She is drawn to stories that exist in the in-between spaces, both in the public...
