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Manuel Correa is a filmmaker whose work explores memory and post-conflict reconstruction in contemporary societies. His work exemplifies the difficult task of navigating highly complex and fragile social relationships. He has used the language of documentary filmmaking as a tool to bring people together, creating meeting points for war victims, survivors, activists and scientists. Correa has worked with various historical memory organisations in Colombia, Spain, Guatemala and England.

Correa is the director of The Shape of Now (2018, 75 minutes), Peñoncito (2022, 35 minutes) and #Artoffline (2015, 65 minutes). Together with Marina Otero Verzier, he has co-directed Biological Agent (2023, 23 minutes) and Building for Quantum (2025, 26 minutes). He currently heads the Office of Documentary Research, based at MediaLab Matadero, and is part of the Forensic Architecture project (University of London).

His works have been shown at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and Dok Leipzig. He has also taken part at the Berlinale Doc Station and in the 19th and 18th Venice Architecture Biennales and his work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Medellín, at the 8th Norwegian Sculpture Biennale, at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo and at e-flux Architecture, among others.