Gabriel Lizama (Liz Taylor)

Director · b. 1990 · Santiago de Chile, Chile

Gabriel Lizama Sangüeza AKA Liz Taylor (Santiago de Chile, 1990) is a Chilean artist and academic who has dedicated himself to: music, cinema, film criticism, research, photography and audiovisual teaching. Since 2010 he has created short experimental, fiction and documentary films, music videos and audiovisual research. He is a member of the Film-maker's Cooperative (NYC, USA). After a 10-year hiatus from making short films, in 2024 he returned with his saga (still in development) "Chilean Chants", short films that explore various traumas and events related to the fragmented identity of Chile, through the moving image and its eternal dance with time. Some of his films have reached festivals and markets in the U.S., France, Perú and Chile. He's the coordinator and programmer in the Sala Sazie Cine Club of the University of Chile, the oldest and most prestigious in the country.