Eden Bernal Ponce

Director, D.P., Editor, Producer

Mexico City, Mexico City MX

Available for Freelance

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About

Non-fiction filmmaker and visual artist from Mexico City. He studied BA Communications and has a Master degree in Visual Arts. His work explores the tensions between topics as gender, territory and violence. He was part by the National System of Art Creators 2019-2022 with the multi-platform project "Cabinet of Invisible Objects". In 2018 he obtained a Production Fund from the Mexican Film Institute for"The Siren Song", his first documentary feature. In 2017 he completed "The Exile", a multi-platform project granted by the Mexican Fund for Arts and Culture (2014) and composed of a short documentary film, a photo exhibition (PhotOn Prize 2018) and a photobook (shortlisted for the Aperture 1st Photobook Award 2018, exhibited at México, Europe and the United States; and compiled by the Guggenheim Museum and Harvard University). In 2013 he was selected for the DocsDF Challenge with short documentary film “The Navel”. In 2010 the Santiago Álvarez and DocsDF Festivals selected “Portrait in Absence”, his first non-fiction short film, previously awarded by the Emerging Filmmakers Fund. He has been a jury member for the ECAMC 2023 fund (IMCINE), the Nun & Duss Fund (VC Mx), and Jóvenes Creadores 2022 (SAC). He is currently co-coordinator of Video Consortium Mexico.

Featured Work

The Exile (teaser)

At the age of 40 and after years of violence, Bertha decided to get away from her husband and from society to settle in the middle of the forest, in Northwestern Mexico. So today, at 80 years old, she refuses to be disabled because of their age and she clings to the place and job with which she managed to forge her own law.

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Exiles (photobook)

Shortlisted for the Aperture 1st Photobook Award, exhibited at Paris Photo, Aperture Foundation Gallery NY, Miami Photo Fest, Grassi Museum Leipzig and collected by the Guggenheim Museum and Harvard University. Exiles is inspired by the story of three women who, in the middle of their lives and after suffering years of violence, decided to leave their partners and even the whole world. The book is composed of two interspersed books, creating a narrative that visually builds the work by interweaving the stories of three very different places in Mexico. The landscape and the design of the pages create a dramatic and poetic scenario of the lives of these three women who isolated them selves from the world for different reasons, and who are the metaphor to address central issues of identity, gender and the life of women in Mexico.

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