Cecilia Barriga

Cecilia Barriga, born in Chile in 1957.Masters Degree in Films & Video Production from Spanish University (Universidad Complutense de Madrid,1984).She worked as an independent filmmaker and independent video maker for many different media: Channel Plus, Spanish Television, Barcelona, DVCTV, New York, etc. She has worked on numerous projects in Spain and Latin America, where she made many documentaries, narrative films, and experimental films. Since 1994 she has been working in film and video around the world particularly in Latin America, China and United State. In 1991 her piece Meeting of Two Queens had a success, full reception in several festivals around the world. This work is considered a "cult" video-film in the experimental and independent production industry. Also the film is used by several universities in Cinema Studies courses and has been shown in Art Museums around the world.
She has made documentaries for the United Nations in Beijing, (Fourth Women World Conference and Social Summit in Copenhagen in 1995). But her most acclaimed documentary is My Wounded Eye, about Cuba which was received in many film festivals. After extensive experience in short fiction, she started writing her first feature project , Time's up!, based on the real case a female escaped from Chile in the period of dictatorship, but it is a reality that is totally reinvented. (06/00)

Meeting of Two Queens
A film by Cecilia Barriga, 1991, 14 min., Color
In this witty, luminous tape Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich star in the roles of their lives—cast as lovers by Chilean video artist Barriga. Queen C...