Elena Pardo is a visual artist and documentary, experimental and animation filmmaker living in Mexico City. She explores the possibilities offered by photochemical films for preserving and capturing images, working in a laboratory. Since 2005, she has been a member of the extended film collective Trinchera Ensamble. She is also co-founder and current director of Laboratorio Experimental de Cine Experimental Film Laboratory (LEC), an artistic project that came into being in 2013. LEC engages in the dissemination, production, educational activities and programming of content in different cinematic formats.