Bio

filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist

Rosa Angelini is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist, musician, and immersive sound designer with experience in new media, performance, artistic direction, and production. Her work focuses on the intersection of art, technology, and nature, with a special emphasis on environmental issues and connections with Indigenous worldviews. In recent years, she has specialized in creating immersive experiences, video installations, and audiovisual and musical works with immersive and ritual qualities, designed to generate sensitive and meaningful encounters that invite viewers to reflect on the balance between humans and nature.

With a background in environmental research related to volcanoes and mountain ecosystems, she blends film, new media, immersive sound, music, performance, 3D animation, and visual effects. Her practice delves into the elements of nature within wild and ancient landscapes—water, native forests, rivers, glaciers, fire, volcanoes, and earth—experimenting with audiovisual and sonic proposals across multiple formats and perspectives (terrestrial, aerial, underwater, and 360° cameras).

She conducts territorial and scientific research, together with alliances with environmental institutions, where the projects explore the effects of climate change, extractivism, colonization, and human action, seeking to raise awareness about the urgent protection of nature, biodiversity, and native territories at risk.

Her saga “Inmersión en la mapu”, winner of cultural awards in Chile, stands out. It now includes three episodes, filmed in various mountain ecosystems of Araucanía Andina. I — “For the protection of the native forest and the pewen tree” (2022), premiered at the Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago and the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, is a work that travels through forests and national parks located at the feet of the Llaima Volcano, guided by the spirit of a machi (portrayed by Lorenza Aillapán), who recounts the environmental crisis and the loss of biodiversity in the China Muerta National Reserve and Conguillío National Park, caused by a massive forest fire that occurred in 2015.

En 2023 se estrenó la segunda parte «The universe of the river» In 2023, the second part, “El universo del río”, was released, raising awareness about the protection of the Truful Truful River, a place considered sacred by the Mapuche people and endangered by the imminent installation of a hydroelectric plant. Through a journey across aquatic and terrestrial landscapes of the Truful Truful River basin, near the Llaima Volcano, the second part of the saga recalls our aquatic origins and ancestral stories of the Mapuche people, such as Sumpall, the guardian spirit of the waters (portrayed in the work by actress Rallén Montenegro).

In November 2024 "Glaciers, guardians of the balance on Earth”premiered, its third part, in a large-scale immersive video installation with 360º Dolby Atmos sound, integrating live music, performance, and projections. Filmed in the depths of two glaciers in the Araucanía Region: Pichillancahue and Voipir, located on the Rukapillan (Villarrica) Volcano, the most active in South America. It is led by Mapuche musician and ulkantufe Joel Maripil, who portrays an ancestral spirit traveling through the glaciers of the Villarrica Volcano, invoking the spirits of the mountain, the volcano, and the millennia-old waters preserved in ice, to perform a prayer for the protection of these territories fundamental to biodiversity and the sustainability of ecosystems on Earth.

These works feature original music created by Rosa Angelini together with Fran Straube (Rubio).

The production is managed by IMITELAB, immersive experiences,a production company and studio founded by Rosa Angelini.

Rosa Angelini explains: “This new episode seeks to raise awareness regarding the importance of protecting the balance on Earth, highlighting the role of glaciers as primary guardians of that balance. It explores their symbiotic relationship with the volcano—two energies we understand as opposites, fire and water—yet they coexist, and their harmony and co-regulation are essential for our survival and for the sustainability of ecosystems.”.

Also notable are the direction and music of the interdisciplinary work “Hay una conspiración en la tierra” (2019–2021) and “Volkana” (2023), an immersive audiovisual concert.

She also leads various initiatives such as Imitelab, experiencias inmersivas, Gestoras en Red, an international network of women arts workers and she is producer and curator of the documentary series “Sonidos en mi, mujeres y disidencias en la música” “Sounds within me, women and dissidence in music.”.

She is professionally trained as a Filmmaker, specializing in directing, at Universidad ARCIS, and holds a degree in Visual Arts Education from UAHC.