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Clara Cullen

Clara Cullen is an Argentine director and photographer whose work moves between independent cinema, fashion films and portraits of artists.

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Overview

From: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Works in: Film, photography, theater and opera
Studies: Film at Universidad del Cine; documentary filmmaking at Parsons
Early recognition: Ballroom Battle, a 2013 interactive voguing film
First feature: Manuela, premiered at Mar del Plata in 2022

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How it started.

Cullen studied film in Buenos Aires and documentary filmmaking in New York. Her training included working with Spike Lee and learning from Werner Herzog. Early work reached galleries in New York and Milan before she expanded into shorts, music videos and opera.

An invitation to play.

Ballroom Battle brought her interest in fashion and New York’s ballroom culture to an interactive film. Viewers choose dancers to advance through a competition. Released by NOWNESS in 2013, it earned a Silver Lovie for Best Interactive Video.

A story close to home.

Her first feature, Manuela, follows an immigrant nanny and the child in her care. In her director’s statement, Cullen connects the film to her own childhood nanny and her experience of motherhood. It premiered at Mar del Plata in 2022 and won Santa Barbara’s Nueva Vision Award in 2023.

Fashion and film.

Alongside independent cinema, Cullen makes fashion films and photographs artists and performers. Her recent work includes Beyond the Season with Gabriela Hearst, Schiaparelli runway films and portraits of Lisa Kudrow and Eva Victor for Interview.

Creditschronological, newest first

Film

2025Gabriela Hearst, Beyond the SeasonWriter and director
2024RhizomeDirector
2022ManuelaWriter, director and producer
2021Lo que no se ve ni se oye (Lost and Found)Director
2013Ballroom BattleDirector

Photography and fashion films

2026The Joy of Loving, FerragamoDirector
2026HommeGirls Volume 15: Jenny ShimizuPhotographer
2026Lisa Kudrow for InterviewPhotographer
2025Back to the Future, SchiaparelliFilm director
2025Eva Victor for InterviewPhotographer

Awards

Quotes

I think of myself as an artisan, not an artistClara Cullen, Mission

Discussing her approach to filmmaking in an interview: https://www.missionmag.org/clara-cullen-is-the-filmmaker-shaping-fashion-narratives/

Trivia

Street Fighter helped inspire the game-like structure of Ballroom Battle, which she developed with Convoy studio.
Her daughter Alma appears in Manuela; Cullen says they shot the film in fifteen days.
She told Mission she first met Gabriela Hearst on the dance floor after crashing Hearst’s wedding.