Sunspots (still), 2025, 16mm, color, sound
Recent Exhibitions/Press/News:
2026
Vastlab Experimental - VLX7, Los Angeles, USA
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, USA
RPM in Motion, Boston, USA
Pigmento – Labocine, Brooklyn, USA
Ecologies of Attention – Vorspiel / CTM & Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2025
CineSalon Experimental Film Festival, Cork City, Ireland
Punto y Raya, Sofia, Bulgaria
Harkat 16mm Film Festival, Mumbai, India
Unter dem Beton, ein Traum (Beneath the Concrete, a Dream) – Kasseler Dokfest, Germany
Doc.Berlin, Germany
Siphon 虹吸 – Beijing International Short Film Festival, China
Analogica, Bolzano, Italy
Inflamável V, Florianópolis, Brazil
Manhattan Independent Film Festival, New York, USA
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, USA
Bideodromo, Bilbao, Spain
Edmonton Underground Film Festival, Canada
Institute for Experimental Arts, Athens, Greece
Monument – Antimatter / Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, Canada
Noche de Cine – Yollotl Encuentro del Corazón, Austin, USA
Nightfall – Rooftop Films / Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, USA
MX Nuestro Cine – Canal 22, Mexico City, Mexico
Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, USA
Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada
Encuentro para Cinéfagos, San Cristóbal, Venezuela
Stuff MX, Mexico City, Mexico
Mientras tanto CINE, Montevideo, Uruguay
Doc.Boston, USA
Boston Short Film Festival, USA
Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas 5, Monterrey, México
Festival del Cinema Pirata, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
Adriatikino, Fermo, Italy
Post-Cinema Film Festival, Siracusa, Italy – Honorable Mention
"Sunspots y Eyes Break into a Thousand Lights" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
From Rivers and Stones: Breathing Cartographies – Strangloscope, Itajaí, Brasil
art + film + vienna
Wunderground Film Festival, Verbeke Foundation, Belgium
Cannes International Film Week, France
Video Art Night 2025 – Aurora, Dallas, USA
New Year/New Work Festival – The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York, USA
Inflamável IV, Florianópolis, Brasil – Honorable Mention
"Beacon: Epistomologies of the Art Object" - Jane Blocker, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (University of California Press)
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, USA
Doc.London, UK
Spatiotemporal – Lambla Gallery, Charlotte, USA
"Texas Never Whispers: Watery, Domestic" - Ronnie Yates, Glasstire
Sound by Frame – Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Vignola, Italy *Best Soundtrack Award
Celluloidra Revolverrel, Pécs, Hungary
Brussels Independent Film Festival, Belgium
Primary Colors – Labocine, Brooklyn, USA
"Signs of Dallas, Streams of Houston: Recent exhibitions in Texas" - William Sarradet, Glasstire
The Giant World – Labocine, Brooklyn, USA
Watery, Domestic – Basket, Houston, USA
Summoned: Lana Z Caplan, Gloria Chung, Abinadi Meza, Mike Rollo, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, Canada
2024
Afterimage – Wavefield, Brooklyn, USA
Hiroshima Short Film Festival, Japan
I See a Moon While Looking at the Sun – Harkat 16mm Film Festival, Mumbai
Bajo la superficie – Light Matter, Buenos Aires, Argentina
20/20/20: Harry Smith, Stan Brakhage, Abinadi Meza – We Luv Video, Austin, USA
Orbitis – MA/IN Festival, Matera, Italy
Experimental Brasil, Campos Dos Goytacazes, Brazil
Analogica, Bolzano, Italy
"Más cables que personas y Aka 赤" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, USA
Rare Effect Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
"Light Matter 2024..." - Michael Sicinski, In Review Online
RPM, Boston, USA
Edmonton Underground Film Festival, Canada
Berlin Kiez Film Festival, Germany – Honorable Mention
Toronto Arthouse Film Festival, Canada
"Todo rostro es una forma que nos mira y Parangolé" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
Water Works – Public Art Fund + The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York, USA
Other Cinema, San Francisco, USA
Proyector, Madrid, Spain
Celluloidra Revolverrel, Esztergom, Hungary
Bordeaux Shorts Biennale, France – Honorable Mention
Vagrant Film Festival, Minsk, Belarus
Arthouse Film Festival, Austin, USA
MA/IN Festival + CRM - Centro di Ricerche Musicali, Rome, Italy
Lightpress Grant, Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle, USA
Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas 4, Monterrey, Mexico
Light Matter – Kino Palais, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brooklyn Film Festival, USA
New Jersey International Film Festival, USA
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, USA
Open Air Media Festival, Iowa City, USA
Post-Cinema Film Festival, Siracusa, Italy – Honorable Mention
Sipontum Arthouse, Manfredonia, Puglia, Italy
ULTRAcinema – Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain
Swallow Fire – Cauldron International Film & Video Festival, Salt Lake City, USA
"Conversación con Abinadi Meza" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
Light Matter – Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Quito
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, USA
NALAC Fund for the Arts Award, National Association of Latinx Arts & Cultures, San Antonio, USA
Transmissions – Canopy, Austin, USA
In Situ, In Tempore – Traverse, Toulouse, France
Motion Media Arts Center, Austin, USA
The Brain is the Screen – Labocine, Brooklyn, USA
Light Matter – No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, USA
Light Matter – The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York, USA
"Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water)" Luigi Starace, 6th Wrong Biennale (Italy)
2023
nodoCCS / Galería elRAiSE, Caracas, Venezuela
Iono – Mute Sound Records #53 Crimson (CD) Zaragoza, Spain
ULTRAcinema – La Lumière Collective, Montréal, Canada
Bureau for Experimental Ethnography, Austin, USA
Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Australia
Aura – Helios, Mexico City, Mexico
New Orleans Film Festival, USA
Un-framing – Light Matter, Alfred, New York, USA
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, USA
"No Justice, No Peace, Caixa Preta y Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water)" Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
ULTRAcinema, Mexico City / Xalapa / Toluca / Tepic / Cuernavaca, Mexico & Cochabamba, Bolivia
Antimatter, Victoria, Canada
ULTRAcinema, Tijuana / Ensenada / Mexicali / Tecate, Mexico
Strangloscope, Itajaí, Brasil
ULTRAcinema, Centro Teorema, Mexico City, Mexico
Seeing is Dreaming, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, USA
ULTRAcinema – La Memoria del Pez, Mazatlán, Mexico
RPM, Boston, USA
Torino Underground Cinefest, Turin, Italy
"Surrounded by Colors We Could No Longer See y Educación perdida" Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
FilmArte Festival, Madrid/Berlin – Honorable Mention
Sipontum Arthouse, Manfredonia, Italy
"Eyeing the bounty of experimental films at CROSSROADS 2023" Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, 48Hills
Crossroads – San Francisco Cinematheque / Gray Area, San Francisco, USA
ULTRAcinema – Nayar LabCinema, Nayarit, Mexico
ULTRAcinema – Cine Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Chroma Art Film Festival, Miami
Suspaustas Laikas, Vilnius, Lithuania
"I vincitori della sessione “estate 2023” e le parole della critica sulla selezione ufficiale," Stato Quotidiano (Italy)
A Lyte in the Dark Film Festival, Princeton, New Jersey – Jury Favorite
Centre Court / LTK4, Cologne, Germany
Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas 3, Monterrey, México
"Exploring matter - Time Crystals and Tlaloc, a diptych by Abinadi Meza," Luigi Starace, et al., Ordet (Italy)
Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada – Best Screenplay Nominee
ULTRAcinema – Stuff MX, Mexico City, Mexico
Experimental Brasil, Campos Dos Goytacazes, Brazil *best experimental abstraction finalist
Surrounded by Colors We Could No Longer See, WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears, New York
AVIFF, Cinema Les Variétés, Marseille, France
Wave Farm, New York, Artist-in-residence
Digital Celluloid – Brooklyn, USA
Berlin Kiez Film Festival, Germany – Best Experimental
ULTRAcinema – La Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo, Cinema Maldà, Barcelona, Spain
dispatches from these so-called lands – Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada
Sound Cinema vol. 1, Melbourne, Australia
Experimental Forum, Los Angeles, USA – Honorable Mention
ULTRAcinema – Cineteca Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
"Interview," Experimental Brasil
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, USA
"Tlaloc - Movie Review," Fabricio Estevam Mira, Experimental Brasil
New Year/New Work Film Festival – The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York, USA
Chorion: A Film, Radio Amnion, London, UK & Wave Farm + WGXC 90.7FM, New York, USA
Cosmic Rays – Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
2022
Austin Arthouse Film Festival, USA
Festival de Cine Radical, La Paz, Bolivia
Saigon Experimental Film Festival, Vietnam
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Turkey
ULTRAcinema, Asunción, Paraguay
Revelry – Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
"RECUERDO AQUELLOS DÍAS (PUDO HABER SIDO DIFERENTE)," Pablo Gamba, desistfilm
Cosmic Rays – International Film Series, Boulder, USA
Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, New York, USA
Cosmic Rays, Vertical Cinema, Iowa City, USA
"CROSSROADS 2022. PROGRAMA ONLINE ECHO 2," Mónica Delgado, desistfilm
VASTLab Experimental, Los Angeles, USA
ULTRAcinema, Tepoztlán, México
Antimatter, Victoria, Canada
Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, USA
Ortometraggi Film Festival, Turin, Italy
Historias de Transformación – Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, USA
Crossroads – San Francisco Cinematheque / Gray Area, San Francisco, USA
Bogotá Experimental / Cineautopsia, Colombia
Onyko, Odesa, Ukraine / Tallinn, Estonia
Reading/book event: Sand Stories 3 – Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, Germany
Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
non-syntax, Taipei, Taiwan
Los Angeles Underground Film Forum, USA – Honorable Mention
Reading/book launch, Marfa Book Co., Marfa, USA
Kabayitos / The Clemente, New York, USA
Tonnau Short Film Festival, Aberystwyth, Wales
Dante Sunset Film Festival, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
La Muestra Internacional de Cine y Ciencia, Santander, Spain
Mientras Tanto Cine, Montevideo, Uruguay
Taos Center for the Arts, New Mexico, USA
"16 film in conocorso," Ordet (Italy)
Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, USA
Under the Radar Festival, Vienna, Austria – Best International
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Vignola, Italy
Sipontum Arthouse, Manfredonia, Italy – Best Editing & Best Experimental
XPRMNTL, London, UK
"Interview," Elena Abbiatici, Arshake (Italy)
Radiophrenia – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow & 87.9FM, Scotland