Jean-Jacques Martinod is an Ecuadorian filmmaker, media artist, radio DJ, and occasional film curator. His practice operates as constant relational inquiry within the realms of cinematic noumenal perception. His works study the intertwined relations between the human and the non-human, living mythologies, disappearing memories, biomes and techne as manifested in relation to living worlds, and how perception mediates the relations within these ecosystems and their cohabitant entities.
Martinod's work has been showcased in leading festivals, museums and cinematheques, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, FIDMarseille, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Mar del Plata, PHI Centre Montreal, Cinemateca do MAM Rio de Janeiro, The Museum of the Moving Image and the European Media Arts Festival. His work has received several awards including Jury Prize at DocumentaMadrid, both Camira and Explora awards at Curtocircuito, and the Jury Prize at the Belgrade Alternative Film/Video Festival.
He received his MFA from Concordia University in Montreal where he was a member of the Centre for Expanded Poetics, Fabrique-mondes Research Group, and the Global Emergent Media Lab. He is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD within the Emergent Technologies and Media Art Practices(ETMAP) program at the University of Colorado where he is a member of the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media.
