Chris Gude has made three films about the search for value in the contexts of various extractive and commercial logics. Mambo Cool (2013) is embedded in the underworld of small-time
drug traffickers in Medellín; Mariana (2017) accompanies gasoline and whiskey smugglers on the Colombian-Venezuelan border; and Morichales (2024) immerses in the material, temporal, and spiritual labor of the informal gold miner in Venezuela. They have exhibited at places such as FIDMarseille, Dok Leipzig, Viennale, FICUNAM, Punto de Vista, Mar del Plata, Mostra de São Paulo, Lincoln Center, Goa International Film Festival of India, MALBA (Buenos Aires), Cinemateca de Madrid, the Museum of the Moving Image (New York), Cinemateca de Bogotá, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Centre Pompidou. Morichales was awarded Best Film at the 2025 Cartagena International Film Festival.
At MacDowell, he worked on the treatment of a new film that continues inquiries into alternative attitudes on accumulation, work, and territory that both challenge and coexist with extractive and commercial logics.
