Chris Gude has made three films, all of them blending documentary and fiction with extensive fieldwork. Mambo Cool (2013) is embedded in the world of small-time drug traffickers in Medellín, Mariana (2017) delves into that of gasoline and whiskey smugglers on the Colombian-Venezuelan border, and Morichales (2024) is a journey immersed in the anxious search for gold in the jungles of Venezuela. He is currently developing a literary and illustrative project about gold mining and indigenous sovereignty struggles in Southeast Venezuela.
Gude has exhibited in places such as FIDMarseille, Dok Leipzig, Viennale, FICUNAM (Mexico), Punto de Vista (Spain), Mar del Plata, Cartagena, Mostra de São Paulo, Lincoln Center (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano (Buenos Aires), Cineteca de Madrid, the Museum of the Moving Image (New York), and Cinemateca de Bogotá.
At MacDowell, he worked on the treatment of a new film continuing a cycle of inquiries into how alternative attitudes on accumulation, work, and territory both challenge and coexist with extractive and commercial logics. The latest of these works, Morichales, immersed in the material, temporal, and spiritual labor of the informal gold miner in Venezuela, was awarded Best Film at the 2025 Cartagena International Film Festival.
