Aitana López Rodrigo (she/her) is an artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam. Working across sound, video, and installation, her work explores precariousness both as subject matter and as a formal condition, often embracing DIY and low-budget methodologies. In her practice, she listens closely to found sound — street conversations, voice notes — and collects fragments of text, from slogans to bureaucratic language, elements that often trigger and structure her projects. Her work is strongly shaped by rhythm, narration, and chance.

Apart from her individual practice, she has also collaborated with artists like Panida Te Petchara, Sara Santana or Miguel Ruz. On a local level, she is part of Noranje, FilmDak and Feministas en Rotterdam. Aitana studied Fine Arts in Madrid and Paris, and holds a master degree from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her work has been showcased at film festivals and art spaces such as WORM Rotterdam (NL), Matadero Madrid (ES), D'A Film Festival (ES), the Historic Archive of Barcelona (ES), La Capella, Barcelona (ES), Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (NL), Medialab Prado Madrid (ES), Garage Rotterdam (NL), FetFilm Festival, Stockholm (SE), or Mientras Tanto Film Festival, Montevideo (UR), among others.

Find Aitana at her CBK profile, alrart250@gmail.com, or @aitanalopezrodrigo on Instagram.

A Photographic Lesson

2022, short film, experimental, HD, 06’.

A Photographic Lesson presents a formal flip that explores French photographic magazines from the 1970s and 1980s. Through an exercise in improvisation, a voice narrates the image on display, trying to deduce the medium that represents it. The audio comes from voice recordings in corporate contexts, while the images are drawn from the archives of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam.

A Photographic Lesson

2022, short film, experimental, HD, 06’.

The film has been screened at FetFilm festival Stockholm (2023, SE), l’Alternativa Film Festival, as part of the program Short Short Shortcuts (2024, ES), Noranje studio, Rotterdam (NL, 2025) and as part of GRAW Ateliers weekend, Rotterdam (NL, 2025).