ABOUT
Mark Escribano is a Puerto Rican artist, filmmaker, and portrait photographer in Los Angeles whose work spans multiple mediums and explores the complex relationship between the artist and the act of creation. From his early explorations in photography to his later pursuits in experimental filmmaking and documentary work, Escribano’s practice has been marked by a consistent focus on the artist as subject and the process of art-making as a theme.
Escribano’s journey as an artist began with a fascination with the communicative potential of metaphoric sequence photography, a practice that employed diptychs and triptychs to construct layered narratives through visual juxtapositions. Influenced by the work of Duane Michals, he sought to capture moments of transformation and the fleeting nature of time, using imagery to distill durational psychological and emotional relationships into single moments. This early experimentation with photographic sequencing eventually led him to short-form experimental filmmaking, where he drew inspiration from avant-garde filmmakers like Maya Deren and Albert Lamorisse. Through these films, Escribano began to explore surreal, fragmented, and symbolic realms of human experience, delving into non-linear storytelling, visual abstraction, and 'vertical' cinema. As his work evolved, Escribano expanded into performance art and eventually into feature-length documentaries, film directing, producing and cinematography.
In addition to his visual work, Escribano has engaged in textual curation, creating a florilegium book from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sculpting in Time. This compilation distills the book to its core reflections on artistic intention and practice, extracting Tarkovsky’s most essential meditations on the creative process. Through this project, Escribano extends his exploration of the artist’s role—not just in image-making, but in shaping and defining the philosophy of artistic endeavor itself.
Commissions&Licensing (Photo/Dir/D.P.)
studio@markescribano.com
Other Inquiries
contact@markescribano.com
Escribano’s journey as an artist began with a fascination with the communicative potential of metaphoric sequence photography, a practice that employed diptychs and triptychs to construct layered narratives through visual juxtapositions. Influenced by the work of Duane Michals, he sought to capture moments of transformation and the fleeting nature of time, using imagery to distill durational psychological and emotional relationships into single moments. This early experimentation with photographic sequencing eventually led him to short-form experimental filmmaking, where he drew inspiration from avant-garde filmmakers like Maya Deren and Albert Lamorisse. Through these films, Escribano began to explore surreal, fragmented, and symbolic realms of human experience, delving into non-linear storytelling, visual abstraction, and 'vertical' cinema. As his work evolved, Escribano expanded into performance art and eventually into feature-length documentaries, film directing, producing and cinematography.
In addition to his visual work, Escribano has engaged in textual curation, creating a florilegium book from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sculpting in Time. This compilation distills the book to its core reflections on artistic intention and practice, extracting Tarkovsky’s most essential meditations on the creative process. Through this project, Escribano extends his exploration of the artist’s role—not just in image-making, but in shaping and defining the philosophy of artistic endeavor itself.
Commissions&Licensing (Photo/Dir/D.P.)
studio@markescribano.com
Other Inquiries
contact@markescribano.com