Perpetual Radiance

Magdalena Orellana (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1990) studied Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires, she specialised in Documentary Film at ECAM. She also completed the Postgraduate Programme in filmmaking at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola.

Interested in the intersections between fiction and non-fiction, her work explores the fabric of routines, conversations and disconnections that shape our everyday lives.

She has directed several short films: Perpetual Radiance (Paris, 2025), Todo esto es aún más intenso si a esa hora tardía se visita un amigo para ver cómo le va (San Sebastián, 2020) and A Smile Is Not a Paradigm (New York, 2018), among others.

At the same time, she has worked as a visual artist and graphic designer on artistic projects such as the speculative publication on IKEA, Yup, Modern Sensibility (Rotterdam, 2019), and El único destino de los coches es chocar contra los árboles (2019), a reading/performance at La Casa Encendida.

She has taken part in various residencies and artistic programmes, including the Collaborative Studio of UnionDocs (New York), the Artists-in-Residence programme at CA2M, the X Films project at Punto de Vista and, more recently, the In Situ programme at Cité internationale des Arts (Paris)

Her projects have been exhibited at institutions and venues such as V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid) and CCCB (Barcelona), among others.

Her first fiction feature film currently in development, Hasta que el lugar se haga improbable, has been selected for the Ikusmira Berriak, MRG/WORK and Abycine Lanza development programmes, for the Matadero Madrid audiovisual projects residency and for the Ibermedia Development Programme for Ibero-American projects.