LUCAS TURTURRO
Filmmaker, visual artist
The labyrinth of mirrors
Short film, 2026
At 3:33 a.m., a woman wakes up caught between sleep and memory. Fragments of therapy, old tapes, and memories of an LSD experiment in the 80s reveal an erased past. Inspired by real dreams and generated with artificial intelligence, the short film mixes fiction, memory and documentary archives to explore the boundaries between perception, memory and scientific manipulation.
YA Film Distribution / Artlab Studio / el Instituto de Innovación Digital + CiudadanIA Duración
Length: 12 min. 47 sec.
VdR–Film Market 2026
FLAT 2026
Geography of the Uncertain
Interactive video installation
The tension between the natural and the artificial unfolds in a landscape suspended between abandonment and regeneration. Roots and cables emerge from the ground as remnants of a system in transformation, while a floating bio-sculpture defies gravity, merging organic matter and technology into a new, uncertain entity.
Created by Lucas Turturro with artificial intelligence and produced by Artlab IA Studio, this interactive video installation expands the boundaries of digital imagery by integrating it with real space. Its apparent continuity is fractured by the presence of the viewer: upon touching the screen, an invisible surface is revealed, establishing a fleeting threshold between the physical and the virtual.
Dangerous Beast
video installation
In Lucas Turturro’s sculptures, the human body is torn apart in an impossible mutation: pain, repression, and the animal within emerge as a protrusion, a mirror, a deformed limb.
These figures are not hybrids but condemnations. There is no symbiosis, no communion—only the fracture of a humanity that believes itself autonomous and superior, yet, like bacilli, fails to perceive the order that transcends it. The history of humankind is a war against the divine, and in each of Turturro’s sculptures, that struggle echoes.
The forms generated by artificial intelligence intensify this paradox. If the machine is an extension of man, what does it reveal when it imagines its own body? In what reflection does it find its true face?
This is the portrait of a species that has strayed so far from its origin that it no longer recognizes its own cry.
All works were produced by Artlab Studio using artificial intelligence.
Juana (17) and Mara (14) only have each other. Since their parents’ tragic accident, they live with their aunt in her farm, where they work in the production of honey.
Their bodies burn from within. Mara, eager and restless, wants to discover and experience everything. Juana, on the other hand, strives to contain her desire and repress her destructive drive.
Their cousin’s arrival from the city shakes the stillness of the farm. Although at first they resist, the sisters end up inviting Lucio into their lives. The three of them become friends, and desire grows between them. But the triangle breaks the sisters’ bond. While Mara wants to experience her sexual awakening with Lucio, Juana becomes increasingly jealous. As Mara becomes more distant, Juana wants her even closer. The tension between the teenagers grows. And, as Juana’s plans continue to get thwarted, this family’s summer becomes a fierce experience. The hive is preparing for the arrival of a new queen bee.
FESTIVAL DE MÁLAGA - Competencia oficial - 2021, España.
BAFICI - Competencia oficial Argentina 2021 - Argentina
Black Nights Film Festival - International Works in Progress 2019 - Estonia
Amazon Video (US), Amazon Prime video (US), Google play (US) and Flow (AR)
THE WEIGHT OF A STONE (2017)
“El peso de una piedra” (“The Weight of a Stone”) is a video installation made of a series of videos in loop where the visitor finds the montage of a great and crowded funeral in which a dead person is never able to rest in peace. An absurd form of eternity.
3rd PRIZE – NATIONAL VISUAL ARTS SALON 2018
Installation and Alternative Media Category.
Casa del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Emilio Caraffa Museum, Córdoba, Argentina.
GROUP EXHIBITION – Exquisite Corpses
BIENALSUR – Galería Arte x Arte. Curator: Fernando Farina. Buenos Aires, 2019.
GROUP EXHIBITION – Proyecto Defunción del Arte
Salamanca, Spain, 2018.
PROYECTOR Video Art Festival
Take Away Process Contemporary Art.
SOLO EXHIBITION – TAE, Teatro Argentino de La Plata
Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, 2018.
SOLO EXHIBITION – El Cultural San Martín
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2017.
Curator: Malena Souto. Coordinator: Mariano Soto.
2017 CREATION GRANT – Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Argentina)
INCONSCIENTE
Experimental Video 2017 | Argentina
If movies are "dreams" of reality, what are the dreams within movies? What do they tell us?
A young director begins to explore the life hidden behind cinema’s dreams, digging through hundreds of scenes from different eras and places. This investigation leads him to create a project that invites the audience to immerse themselves in the unconscious of cinema and a group of theorists to debate these mysteries. An essay on the dream-image and the possibility of revealing that truth is expressed as fiction—because if cinema is not made to translate dreams, it does not exist.
Experimental | 2016 | Argentina
Geometras del Señor Sur - KINO Rebelde - Fondo Nacional de las Artes - Mecenazgo - Fundación Itaú.
Selections & Screenings:
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7th AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - USA 2018
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Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia 2017
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6th Experimental Audiovisual Design Festival of Valdivia – FEDAXV - Chile 2017
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17th International Documentary Film Showcase - Doc Buenos Aires - Argentina 2017
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IV Video Art and Experimental Video Showcase - Intermediaciones - Colombia 2017
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Casa Nacional del Bicentenario
LOS VISUALES
Filmmakers Lucas Turturro -Brenda Barroero
26 Cap. de 28 minutos.
Channel: Encuentro, 2016.
24° edición del Festival Internacional de TV de Shanghai. Nominación a los Premios "Magnolia Awards 2018" en la categoría "Mejor Serie Documental".
VISUALES 360 - Antídoto para la soledad, Nicola Costantino.
Director
Canal Encuentro, 2017.
VISUALES 360: El taller y la obra Zumbidos, de Silvia Rivas
Director
Canal Encuentro, 2018.
THE PROFANE AND THE PAGAN
5 channel video installation, 2014.
Installation: Arte x Arte Gallery. Buenos Aires.
FEET UNDERWATER
3 channel video installation, September 2015.
Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires.
LA SOMBRA INVERTIDA. The Collective Unconscious of Cinema
Five-Channel Video Installation, 2017.
It is a video installation composed of a multi-screen system where the spectator sees a large compilation of dreams in movies. Oneiric images of different times and places communicate with each other, inviting visitors to explore and experiencing the world of dreams in film.
Developed by the Fundación Telefónica (coordinators: Rodrigo Alonso and Mariano Sardón).
Has been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires 2014,
Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti (Buenos Aires) 2015/16, in Parque del Conocimiento (Misiones - Argentina) 2016, in the Teatro Argentino de La Plata (TAE) 2016 and the 15º Tandil Cine (Buenos aires, 2017).
A KING FOR THE PATAGONIA (An Underdeveloped Superproduction)
Documentary, 2011
In 1971, the graphic artist and publicist Juan Fresán sets out to make a film about the incredible story of Orélie Antoine de Tounens, the mad French man who, 100 years before, had proclaimed himself as "King of Patagonia and Araucaria" with his own constitution, currency and ministers. The film was called “La Nueva Francia”, but it was never finished for two reasons; lack of funding, and because the author was forced into exile to Venezuela. If the story sounds familiar, it might be because in the 1980s Carlos Sorín made “A King and His Movie”, inspired by that frustrated shooting, where he worked as the director of photography. In 2004, Fresán contacted Lucas Turturro to help him rescue the film footage that had been preserved.
Fresán died in July of that same year, but Turturro decided to follow the trail of that truncated film and to recover unseen material, by returning to the original locations, and gathering testimonies to shed light on the two tales –one inside the other– that compose this true story, which is stranger and more fascinating than any fiction.
Competencia oficial Argentina del 25º Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata 2010 – Mención Especial del Jurado.
Competencia oficial Festival de Málaga, Cine Español 2011- Mención Especial del Jurado.
35º World Film Festival, Montreal. Canada 2011. Documentales del mundo.
Nominada a los Premios Cóndor de Plata 2012, Rubro Innovación Artística.
29º Festival Internacional de Cine de Uruguay 2011.
Latino Film Festival LAFF Bélgica 2012 – No competencia.
10º Festival Nacional de Tandil Cine, 2011- Competencia documentales. Voto del público.
Competencia Oficial en Tucumán Cine 2011.
18º Festival Latinoamericano de Rosario.
Competencia oficial Festival de Cine Social de Concordia, 2012.
Declarado de interés cultural por la Secretaria de Cultura de la Nación
SMOKE OF THE RIFLE (2004)
Shortfilm 16MM
11 minutes
Directed by: Lucas N. Turturro
-Tehran International Short Film Festival 2006, Irán.
-8émes Rencontres du Cinéma Sud-américain de Marseille, Francia, 2006.
-L'ALTERNATIVA FESTIVAL DE CINE INDEPENDIENTE DE BARCELONA 2006, España.
-Competencia en el marco del III Festival Nacional y I Muestra Internacional de Cortometrajes FENACO Cusco 2006, Perú.
-Seleccionado en el International Student Festival of Film Art Balchik 2005, Bulgaria.
Muestra de cortometrajes argentinos en Zurich, organizado por la embajada de Suiza, 2005.
-XII International Film festival “Etiuda&Anima”, Competencia oficial, Polonia, 2005
-II FESTIVAL DE JOVENES REALIZADORES DE AUDIOVISUAL DEL MERCOSUL, Brasil, 2005
-7º INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF STUDENT FILM IN BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, 2005
-Parte de la programación de “Canal A” del ciclo “Cortorama”, 2005.
-Proyección en la Muestra Itinerante Competitiva FEJOREL Festival y Jornadas de Realizadores Latinoamericanos junio del 2005, en el Cine Teatro del Centro Cultural York
-Declarado de interés cultural por la municipalidad de Mar del Plata 2004.
-Seleccionado para el Festival Internacional de Cine Iquique 2004, Chile.
-Exhibido en La Nave de los Sueños (2004) y Espacio Naranja (2006)