Jean-Jacques Martinod (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1990) is a filmmaker, artist, film curator, abyssal researcher, and clandestine anarchivist. He obtained his master’s degree from Concordia University (Montreal), where he was a member of the Centre for Expanded Poetics, The Global Emergent Media Lab, and the Fabrique-mondes Research Group. He is currently pursuing his PhD in the Emergent Technologies and Media Art Practices programme at the University of Colorado, where he continues to research the intersection between technology, ecology and artistic expression. His work addresses the relationships between the human and the non-human, exploring popular mythologies, anaemic memories and supra-regional biomes. As a curator, he has worked with Cámara Lúcida (Ecuador), V-F-X (Slovenia), and Xinema (Canada), among many others.

He is currently the programmer and coordinator of expanded documentary at the Mimesis Documentary Festival (USA). As an artist and educator, he extends his practice beyond the realm of film, creating environments where media experimentation and community engagement converge. In 2025, he published the experimental novel Arkta Cirklo in collaboration with artist Paulus van Horne. His films have been screened at festivals, museums and film libraries such as IFF Rotterdam, FIDMarseille, Sheffield Doc/Fest, CIFF Camden, PHI Montreal, Cineteca Nacional de México, Cinemateca do MAM Rio de Janeiro and Cinemateca de Bogotá, among others.