Jean-Jacques Martinod is an Ecuadorian filmmaker and media artist. Inhabiting living locales as deterritorialized landscapes, his practice consistently considers the interrelations existing in fluctuating psychic geographies and expanded human noesis, a constant relational inquiry within realms of cinematic noumenal perception. His works study the intertwined relations between the human and the non-human, living mythologies, disappearing memories, biomes and techne as manifested in relation to living worlds. By mediating relations within these ecosystems and their cohabitant entities, situating potential planes and parapoetic territories, he intertwines ethnofiction, anthropology and surregionalism with haptic artisanal film techniques.

His work has earned awards and screened in museums, galleries, film festivals and independent artist-led spaces and co-ops, including Centre PHI Montreal, The Museum of the Moving Image, Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Cinemateca do MAM Rio de Janeiro, Cinemateca de Bogotá, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Nomadica at LABA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, FIDMarseille, Mar del Plata, DocumentaMadrid, European Media Arts Festival, 25FPS, Images Festival, Frontera Sur, Camden International Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Experiments in Cinema, Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida, among many others.

He received his MFA from Concordia University in Montreal where he was a member of the Centre for Expanded Poetics, Fabrique-mondes Research Group, and the Global Emergent Media Lab. He is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD within the Emergent Technologies and Media Art Practices(ETMAP) program at the University of Colorado where he is a member of the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media.