Almudena Escobar López is a curator, archivist, and researcher based in Rochester, NY where she is the Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG). She is completing her Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her work focuses largely on coloniality, anti-ethnography, visual historiography, and artistic practices that propose alternative ways of understanding territoriality. As a guest curator, Almudena has curated and co-curated a number of film and video series which have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá, UnionDocs, ICDOCS, Visual Studies Workshop, Cineteca Nacional de México, Alternative Film/Video, among others. Her writing has been published at MoMA Magazine, Vdrome, Vertical Features, MUBI Notebook, The Brooklyn Rail, Afterimage, and Film Quarterly, among other publications and catalogs. She was program advisor of the 2020 edition of Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and is the curator of Cinema of Sensations: the Never Ending screen of Val del Omar, at the Museum of Moving Image In New York. Recently she has joined the programming committee of Media City Film Festival, and with Sky Hopinka, she is the co-curator of the 2022 Flaherty Film Seminar.