Alexandra Cuesta is a filmmaker and photographer who combines experimental film traditions with documentary practices. Her films have screened in Art of the Real at Lincoln Center, the New York Film Festival, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and FID Marseille, among others. Recent work includes Manu, a visual album (2023), marking her second feature film to premiere in the signed section of IDFA, and Her Land Expanded (2023), a film and music collaboration with composer Tonia Ko, which was presented with a live orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
While at MacDowell in 2018, Cuesta began the editing process of a 16mm film series project titled Camera Notes (working title). It was during this residency that Cuesta discovered she had been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2025, Cuesta returned to MacDowell, editing her feature film, The Movement of Things, which portrays inner and outer landscapes that depict the transition and disappearance of a small indigenous farming town in the Ecuadorian highlands through oral histories, dreams, and memories. The Ecuadorian Ministry of Culture awarded the film a production grant, making it one of the ten films selected for Doc Lab at the Berlinale Talents—Berlinale Film Festival.
