Sebastián Salfate is a Chilean artist, film director, and editor. He graduated in Visual Arts from the Catholic University of Chile and earned an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts. His practice moves between contemporary art and cinema, often exploring themes of memory, territory, and collective experience. He has exhibited his work in Chile and internationally, including at the Contemporary Museum of Art in Santiago and Kugler Space in Switzerland. As a filmmaker, Sebastián has directed short films and music videos, including Días del mar (2018), which premiered at the Monterrey International Film Festival, and Litre (2020), which premiered at the Poitiers Film Festival. His work has also been presented at the Lima Film Festival, San Diego Dance Film Festival, and Annual Copenhagen Film Festival. Alongside his directing practice, he has worked extensively as an editor on documentaries, television series, and feature films.

Memory Lapses (Lagunas mentales) [co-written with Ileana Elordi] — In 2005, 60-year-old Carlos, a Chilean raised in exile, returns to the judicial reenactment of his brother Luis’s disappearance, a MIR guerrilla who was last seen in 1981 in Neltume as part of Operación Retorno. His search —both technical and symbolic— uncovers painful truths and the unhealed wounds of Chile’s past.