ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Born in southeast Mexico to an itinerant family, Racornelia was introduced to the creative process through the discipline of dance and the lyricism of music. Her fascination with movement led naturally to the language of cinema, first through dance films and later through the possibilities of narrative image.

Racornelia won the Latin America Writing Scholarship for Film & Television and completed a writing programme at Vancouver Film School, returning to Mexico shortly after to develop MACDO. Workshops with filmmakers Amat Escalante, Carlos Reygadas, and Víctor Erice would later nurture the first sketches of MACDO.

Alongside her collaborations with Michel Franco and La Corriente del Golfo, founded by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal, She founded Enantiodromia, a Mexico-based production house dedicated to intuitive and authorial filmmaking. Through it she conceived, financed, and directed MACDO, a self-produced debut created in close partnership with cinematographer Negin Khazaee.

A Rotterdam Lab alumna, she continues to expand Enantiodromia’s vision by developing new cinematic and interdisciplinary projects.