Project Description

Milton Guillén

Portrait of Milton Guillen

FSC-Associated Fellow 2024-25, FSC-LEF Fellow 2023-24

Milton Guillén is a visual artist, filmmaker, and the senior programmer for the Camden International Film Festival/Points North Institute. Milton’s work explores the cinematic intersections of radical collaborative non-fictions and political dreamscapes, focusing on themes transversing human rights and aesthetics. Milton’s films and installations have screened globally at the Venice Biennale, Locarno, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, True/False, DMZ, Camden, and several dozens of festivals and venues around the world. He is an assistant professor at the University of Vermont and has an MFA from Northwestern University.

FSC Works

Film Still from My Skin and I

My Skin and I (working title)

Milton Guillén and Fiona Guy Hall

My Skin and I is a hybrid film responding to the Nicaraguan authoritarian regime via personal, co-creative storytelling. The project is built from shared memory, contemporary documentation, and radical co-imaginings that come together in a reflexive narrative about political violence, exile, and dissidence with three father-son relationships at its center.