Architect graduated from Tulane University of New Orleans (1953). In 1964, after spending a summer in New York, Luis Ernesto Arocha, astonished by experimental cinema which was transforming the artistic scene of the city, buys an 8mm camera with an automatic zoom and shoots his first film “ The passion and death of Marguerite Gautier”. This feature more than a story, was a way to explore ideas and experiments he was visualizing in Films done by his principal influences Warhol, Brackhage and Anger. From that moment until today, Arocha who is originally an architect has devoted himself to the exploration of cinema and video art, moving transgessive ideas and techniques to the tropical context of his natal city Barranquilla, in the Caribbean coast of Colombia.