Lourdes Villagómez

Lourdes Villagómez is a Mexican animation director and producer who works between Mexico and Madrid. She studied Communication at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and holds a master's degree in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts. Her animation combines everyday images, objects and sounds across film, video and installation, and has been shown at the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the CCCB in Barcelona. In 1999 she founded Los Animantes, a collective for the production and promotion of independent animation, and she has received Fulbright, Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundation grants.