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Les Shapeshifters

Cruda Colletive


EXPERIENCE


2023 - present

Founder & Director: Les Shapeshifters

2023 - present

Producer & Editor (part-time): advaya

2020 - present

Cruda Collective

2020 - present

Filmmaker, Artist & Researcher

2022 - 2023

Nadine El Roubi’s offical Creative Director

2022 - 2023

Video Editor. Egas Producations, Almere

2023

Selected Artist for 25AV to direct a film with music produced by Marco Caricolca. 

2021 - 2022

Researcher in Residency.
Horror Program Research Bureau. University of the Underground,

2021 - 2022

Artist in Residency.
Midseason Residency. Het Resort, Groningen 

2021 - 2022

Artist in Residency.
Master Apprentice Program. Kunstpodium T, Tilburg

2019

Writer in Residency.
Camp Cushy Watershed, 1- month Residency for artists and writers, Eindhoven

2019

Artist in Residency.
UNIDEE Residency program with Cittadellarte. Biella, Italy

Shapeshifter | Pluralistic Storyteller & Researcher | Artist
Creative Director | Hybrid Storyteller | Artist


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Last updated 03/2025

Laila Saber Rodriguez is an artist, and researcher based in Barcelona, Spain. The focus of her artistic and research practice for the last 9 years continues to be rooted in hybrid formats of creativity and storytelling; focusing on indeterminant narratives. Through film installation, filmmaking, writing and her work with Cruda Collective - she animates landscapes while mythical and speculative elements unfold to tell a story. After 8 years of living in The Netherlands where she completed her Bachelors in Art, Research & Experiment, with a minor in Theory & Research, her endeavours expanded to found Les Shapeshifters ltd.
A research laboratory residency in the making dedicated to fundamentally re-wilding and re-rooting models of collaboration and knowledge-production by inspiring a shapeshifting approach to cross-industry collaborations - the focus is on generating meaning at the cross roads. Specifically within music, art, science, humanities and even business.

Coming soon is The Shapeshifting Act, a podcast series made with artist, Constance Mariena that presents a mosaic of conversations surrounding thinking around shapeshifting within multiple disciplines ranging from philosophy, linguistics, physics, biology and art.


EDUCATION

2023-2024
MA in Art & Creative Direction. Elisava, Barcelona. 

2017-2021
BA in Art & Design. Base for Experiment Art and Research. ArtEZ, Arnhem

2018-2020
Honours Minor Degree in Theory & Research. ArtEZ, Deventer.

2016-2017
Orientation Course in Art and Design
Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague

EXHIBITIONS / SHOWS


03/2024
Crimson Venom exhibited in KunstRAI as part of Backstage Academy Expo. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

03/2024
Hilos en Hilos screening in Momo Festival as part of Squish Rotterdam, Netherlands.

02/2024
Col•lisió event. Sold out. Sala 3, Apolo. Barcelona

12/2023 
Hilos en Hilos presented in Muharraq Nights Art Film festival. Bahrain

11/2023 
Hilos en Hilos presented in Milan Triennale. In conjunction with 25AV. Milan, Italy. 

10/2023
Space & Art Masterclass Residency. KOSMICA Institute
06/2022
Water Is What We Make It. Part of Gemeene Grond exhibited in Casco Art Institute, Utrecht

03/2022
Horror Show.
Researchers present their final project. University of the Under-ground,

03/2022
Once Upon A Time.
group show at Kardinge Ice-Skating Ring, Groningen.

03/2022
World Receiver.
Group show at Omstand, Arnhem.

11/2021
Media, Art & Technology Festival.
Limina screening on the big screen at Focus Film Theater, Arnhem

07/2021
Hot Damn Thank You Ma’am.
ArtEZ BEAR finals, Arnhem.

PUBLICATIONS / APPERANCES

03/2024
Hilos en Hilos reviewed on Short Film Matters

12/2022
Selected Artist for 25AV program alongside collaborator, Marco Caricola. 

10/2022
Awarded Pictoright Fund for young talent. 

08/2022 
Falsa Porta Interview with Marco Caricola on Radio Alhara.
03/2022
“The Creature That Crawls in The Underground Skies”
Film project research published on University of the Underground.

11/2021
World Building Lecture with Andrea Galano Toro.
Media Art & Technology Festival at Focus Film Theater, Arnhem

09/2021
Metropolis M. Selected in best Graduates List of 2021.

07/2021
Syntax Podcast Interview on Spotify.
Laila Saber Rodriguez and Andrea Galano Toro moderated by Heike de Wit. Arnhem.

06/2021
A Good Tale Begins with a Walk.
Video Essay comissioned by Studium Generale ArtEZ, Arnhem & Cairo.

FILMOGRAPHY

Hilos en Hilos (2023)
Hybrid Time: An Underground Experience (2023)
The Creature That Crawls in The Underground Skies (2022)
Mercury Surface (2022)
Limina (2021)
A Good Tale Begins With A Walk (2021)
Querido Mapa (2020)



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