Spanish-Venezuelan Elena Duque is a filmmaker, programmer, writer and teacher. As a filmmaker, her work moves between animation and collage, incorporating analog formats and working methods to review themes such as identity and the sense of belonging through plastic exercises around places, objects and textures. To date, he has made several experimental and animated pieces, which have been shown at festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Mar del Plata, Punto de Vista in Pamplona, London Animation Film Festival, Les Inattendus (Lyon), Documenta Madrid, Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, USA), Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, ExFF in Frankfurt, Animasivo (Mexico), Cinespaña Toulouse and L'Alternativa, among others, as well as in institutions such as Kino Arsenal (Berlin) and the CCCB (Barcelona). Several monographic sessions have been dedicated to his work in places such as the Valdivia Festival (Chile), Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, USA, Doc's Kingdom (Portugal), MUTA (Peru) and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, among others. He has received a Special Mention at the Gijón Film Festival 2020 and the Best National Film Award at CaracasDoc 2021. Her work is part of the catalogs of Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), Hamaca, and Archivo Xcèntric at the CCCB in Barcelona. She has been a Visual Arts resident at the Matadero Art Residency Center in 2023. She also develops commissioned pieces such as headers for festivals and video clips. She is also programmer and head of the publications department of (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico in A Coruña, has been associate programmer at the Seville European Film Festival, is a professor at the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid and teaches workshops in different institutions and masters. She is editor of the books Val del Omar. Más allá de la órbita terrestre (published by Bafici) and 8 super 8 (published by (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico) and author of Secret Passages. Notes on Experimental Animation (Breus collection of the CCCB).