Anto(n) Astudillo
they/them he/him
Anto(n) is a Chilean-American person with short, straight brown hair, brown freckled skin, and a light moustache and goatee. They are wearing round black glasses and they look at the camera in a challenging way. They wear a metal chain necklace and a black t-shirt over a black long-sleeved shirt with colorful writing on it. Their arms are crossed. Behind them is a blurred out urban scene.

Anto(n) is a Chilean-American person with short, straight brown hair, brown freckled skin, and a light moustache and goatee. They are wearing round black glasses and they look at the camera in a challenging way. They wear a metal chain necklace and a black t-shirt over a black long-sleeved shirt with colorful writing on it. Their arms are crossed. Behind them is a blurred out urban scene.

Job title
performance artist   filmmaker   festival programmer   curator  
Identity categories
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of trans experience  
Places of practice

United States of America

New York, United States of America

Santiago, Chile

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States of America

Born

Santiago, Chile ()

Location

Chile

Images
Anto(n) is a Chilean-American person with short, straight brown hair, brown freckled skin, and a light moustache and goatee. They grin at the camera in a friendly way. They are wearing a metal chain necklace and a black T-shirt. Behind them is a blurred out urban scene.
Anto(n) is a Chilean-American person with short, straight brown hair, brown freckled skin, and a light moustache and goatee. They are wearing round black glasses and they look at the camera in a challenging way. They wear a metal chain necklace and a black t-shirt over a black long-sleeved shirt with colorful writing on it. Their arms are crossed. Behind them is a blurred out urban scene.
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Biography

Anto(n) Astudillo (they/he) is a Lenapehoking/NYC based filmmaker, performance artist and curator of trans experience from Wallmapu (Santiago, Chile). They work with 16mm film, video and performance to create moving portraits of personal and political themes, navigating embodied practices and experimental cinema. Astudillo’s work has screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival, IX Festival Dobra, Frontera Sur, Ouray Film Festival, DocMontevideo, Montreal Underground, Film Diary NYC and spaces such as Mills Gallery BCA, NADA, WhiteBox, ATA Gallery, MoMA PS1, Anthology Film Archives among others. They are one of the artists selected for DIP 2024, an international film residency program led by Manuel Abramovich, director of Pornomelancolía. Astudillo has taught film production at Massachusetts School of Art and Design, Emerson College and Keene State College. As an independent curator, Astudillo has programmed at Performance Space New York, Anthology Film Archives, Maysles Documentary Center and international film festivals Go Shorts in the Netherlands and Uppsala Kort in Sweden. Astudillo is a programmer at the New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival NEWFEST, Festival Director of TRANSlations: Seattle Trans Film Festival and Program Director of Millennium Film Workshop.

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Filmography
  • A person peers through a slightly open door. They have long straight brown hair, light skins, glasses, and are wearing a red short-sleeve t-shirt and light denim jeans. The room the person is standing in is dimly lit in orange and yellow by six candles sitting on a stand pressed against the wall. To the person's side is an open door into a room which is much more brightly lit, in a greenish hue. Above the candle-stand is a painting of a person with their hands together praying. The person in the painting has light skin and wears a red garment. The painting is held in an ornate gold frame.

    C. Rojas/Little Red Sisters

    film/video, 2012

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • A portrait of a side profile of someone's face with the background blurred out. They have light skin and short light brown hair with the sides slightly shorter than the top. They are looking off at something off-camera.

    Beneath The Light

    film/video, 2017

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • The edge of a building occupies the left two-thirds of the image. There is a visible window with light coming through but the shades are blocking any view into the window. The right two-thirds of the image features a skyline at night. The image has a blue tint over it due to the time of day.

    Almargen

    film/video, 2018

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • A child in front of a stoop on a bike. They are wearing a pink top, pink shorts, a light purple and black helmet, and a pink and light purple bike. There is a light blue bike on the ground behind them, as well as some cardboard boxes and trash bags on the sidewalk in front of them.

    Te Quiero Tanto

    film/video, 2018

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • A close-up of someone getting their haircut, seen from the right side of their face and head. They have light skin and a thin beard, and are looking straight forward with an intense expression. At the top right you can see silver and red clippers trimming the hair on the sides of their head. The background is blurred out.

    Santiago Barbershop

    film/video, 2018

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • A person with light tan skin sits on the metal edge of a train track in an urban environment. They are wearing a tan baseball cap backwards, a black jersey jacket with a pink t-shirt underneath, black denim pants, and light pink and light blue shoes. There is a person slightly in front of them, hunched over taking a picture of the sitting person with a black camera that is in their hands. The camera-person has dark brown skin, is bald, and is wearing a black puffy sleeveless vest over a white and light-gray-striped long-sleeve t-shirt. In the background, three other people stand around watching the sitting person.

    We Are DMO

    film/video, 2018

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • A person is naked on their knees, hunched over into a ball and holding their body. They have light skin, short dark brown hair and some powder on their face. They are seen in side profile. The background is dark and blurred out.

    EXO

    film/video, 2019

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • An extreme close-up of part of someone's face and chest in front of a blue background. They appear to be hunched over and folding into their body. They have light skin and are shirtless.

    Temple Island

    film/video, 2020

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • A black-and-white image of someone from the stomach up. They are sitting on a studio floor, wearing a white martial arts outfit. They have short dark hair and light skin.

    Vu Ha

    film/video, 2020

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • A black and white filter over an image of a pale stone building. A few windows are visible. The left ones have small awnings over them, and the one window on the right is open with curtains blocking the inside of the room.

    Golpes

    film/video, 2020

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • A close-up on someone's forehead and the top of their head. They are holding an object in front of their face. They have light skin and a buzzed head with dark brown hair. The object they are holding resembles a camera and is black and silver.

    Some kind of diagram

    film/video, 2021

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • Screenshot of a computer display that has a digital rendering of a nude trans body in the centre of a white page. On the right-hand side, a Discord chat history is displayed that has a conversation history about a selfie taken by the film's creator, Anto Astudillo, used as reference for the head shape.

    How to Make an Avatar&RMB

    film/video, 2023

    Director, Editor, Cinematographer/Director of Photography

  • An array of porcelain "I love New York" merch displayed on a storefront shelf in a gift shop in Manhattan.

    While I Read This Letter

    film/video, 2024

    Actor, Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story, Cinematographer/Director of Photography, Producer, Editor, Composer