Artefacto Films

Shaping the future of cinema through technology

A center for research, production, and innovation in film and technology working across three interconnected areas: Production, Tech & Research, and Education.

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The Rock Speaks

Film | 6 min | 2024

A rock of cobalt channels a chorus of voices as it undertakes a trans-continental journey beginning in a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Atlas Of Disappearance

Feature documentary | 84 min | 2026

New forensic technologies help a group of families reconstruct the fate of their relatives, whose bodies were stolen and secretly transferred to the Valley of the Fallen. The film uses digital techniques and archival material to restore what repression tried to erase.

Yet, The Faces

Feature documentary | In development

After the death of her mother, Belgian filmmaker Miléna Trivier develops prosopagnosia and loses the ability to recognize faces. Yet, the Faces reflects on the rise of algorithmic surveillance and the use of biometric data in a world shaped by the global expansion of facial recognition.

Membrane

Fiction short film | 10 min | 2025

A finalist for the 2025 Lumen Prize and conceived as the first installment of a trilogy based on Jorge Carrión’s novel Membrane, the film invites viewers to reconsider what it means to be human in an era shaped by artificial intelligence, memory engineering, and digital consciousness.

09/05/1982

Documentary short film | 10 min 45 sec | 2025

A deteriorated film shot in 1982 in a Latin American country shows a sequence of everyday images, among which a few stand out as testimony to the violent events that took place on May 9 of that year.

One Charming Night

Feature Fiction Film | In Development

Alice finds refuge from her real life in a virtual hotel. Moving through different rooms, she encounters characters searching for multiple forms of intimacy. But they cannot always anticipate the consequences of that search.

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Monday, May
4 – Friday, May 8

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AI for filmmaking with a critical and ethical perspective

Spanish Film Academy, Madrid

Monday, May
11 at 20:45h

Atlas of Disappearance

National Premiere at DocsBarcelona + Q&A

Renoir Floridablanca, Barcelona

Tuesday, May
12 at 18:45h

Atlas of Disappearance

Estreno nacional en DocsBarcelona

Renoir Floridablanca, Barcelona

June, Friday 5th: 6 -
9pm

Artefacto Sessions

Second edition of our Artefacto Sessions

Artefacto, Barcelona

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