Ernesto Baca was born in 1969 in Florencio Varela, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a professor at the University of Palermo in Argentina, in the Department of Photography and at the Superior Film School of Mexico. After his beginnings in Fine Arts, he studied photography and completed his studies at CIEVYC, where he graduated in 1997 as a film and video director. He has developed courses on experimental filming techniques and cinema projection on film. He has directed and filmed numerous short films and several feature films, including Cabeza de palo (2002), Samoa (2005), Music for Astronauts (2008), The Servant (2009), Vrindavana (2010), Gardens (2012), The Commander Ashtar Sheran’s Mission (2012), Requiem for a Forgotten Film (2017), War Simulation Scenes (2019), and Israel (2021), shot entirely in Mexico. His films have been at important festivals such as Locarno (Switzerland), Bafici (Argentina), Làlternativa and Punto de Vista (Spain), Oberhausen (Germany), Dobra (Brazil). In recent years he has incurred the discipline of expanded cinema with his project Spectrum (2015-2019).