*FREE* Join Vertical Cinema in welcoming Venezuelan filmmaker Diego Andrés Murillo for an exclusive screening of his unreleased film! Followed by an in-person Q&A with the director and producer.
Event Details
As I Was Moving Backwards
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025
4–6 p.m. (CST)
Adler Journalism Building E105
18+ Explicit Content
Always free and open to the public
About the Filmmaker
Artist/self-taught filmmaker: director, writer, editor, producer. Diego was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and studied digital photography at The Roberto Mata School in Caracas. Co-founded EL FANTASMA, a Venezuelan film collective/studio. He migrated from his native country out of necessity in the year 2016 and unexpectedly stayed in NYC, his home for the past nine years. To this date he has released five short films of different genres and styles. El Sonido Es El Cuerpo (Sound Is The Body), an experimental feature he just finished, currently awaits release, as he develops Fiebre Karibe (Karibbean Fever), another long-form film, while continuing to work on other parallel projects.
Diego’s projects usually entail speculative fictions that tackle topics such as individual/collective migration, apocalyptic imaginations, historical re-imagining, and repressed desires, emotions & malaises. These films have screened and won awards at international film festivals including Locarno, Brussels, Sitges, Cinélatino Toulouse, Tacoma Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Uruguay Film Festival, Chicago Latino FF, among others. He is a recipient of the Jerome Production Grant, the Venezuelan National Film Fund, and has participated in programs such as the Locarno Open Doors, Locarno Spring Academy, Tres Puertos Lab and the CineQuaNon Residency.
About El Fantasma
Inevitably spread between New York, Caracas, and Buenos Aires, at EL FANTASMA we focus on collectively or individually creating films that respond to our needs, from no-budget experimental fictions and creative archival-documentaries to narrative & hybrid features. We seek to make and question cinema, dissecting our cultural, political, and ethnic origins, as well as other important daily obsessions that always arise.
We look forward to seeing you there!