Juli Saragosa
Certificate Lead, Film Production; tutor, Creative Production (Film) MA
Juli Saragosa(no pronoun/she/they) is a transnational interdisciplinary artist and sound designer who embraces contradictions in everyday life and practice. From a young age, Juli was determined to become an artist and technical experimenter, fuelled by their immigrant family’s resourceful upbringing. From a home photography darkroom to a dual-cassette recorder, Juli’s career as a filmmaker began thanks to a twist of fate and a love of DIY handmade filmmaking.
After having worked in Hollywood North as a professional sound editor, Juli completed an MFA in interdisciplinary arts at Simon Fraser University, while simultaneously co-founding a Super8 film festival and mentorship programme in Vancouver, BC. The grassroots organizing frenzy was solidified when Juli came across "entzuabert", an underground queer diy uncommercial film festival run out of a wagonplace here in Berlin in 2008. Juli then decided to make Berlin home and joined the collective as co-curator and co-organiser.
Juli has also made numerous award-winning short experimental films that have been shown in festivals in Milan, London, L.A., Chicago, Berlin, Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Tunis, and Baikal. Juli's first long film, an experimental personal documentary, is available to stream online. Juli also creates cross-disciplinary work, such as interactive online ASMR, analog film installation, performance art, and is currently in post-production on an Audio Film.
Juli joined the Catalyst film team in 2016, currently teaching in the Film Production and Creative Production (Film) MA programmes as a film sound tutor, and as advisor to first-year Film Production students.