Exhibitions/Press/News:
2024
Watery, Domestic, Basket, Houston
Summoned: Lana Z Caplan, Gloria Chung, Abinadi Meza, Mike Rollo, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria BC
Hiroshima Short Film Festival, Japan
I See a Moon While Looking at the Sun, Harkat 16mm Film Festival, Mumbai, India
Light Matter, Buenos Aires, Argentina
20/20/20 Vision, We Luv Video, Austin
Orbitis, MA/IN Festival, Matera, Italy
Experimental Brasil, Campos Dos Goytacazes, Rio De Janeiro
Analogica 14, Bolzano, Italy
"Más cables que personas y Aka 赤" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
Adventures in Perception, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle
Rare Effect Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
"Light Matter 2024..." - Michael Sicinski, In Review Online
Revolutions per Minute Festival, Boston
Edmonton Underground Film Festival, Canada
Berlin Kiez Film Festival *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
Other Cinema, San Francisco, California
Proyector, Madrid, Spain
Celluloidra Revolverrel, Esztergom, Hungary
Bordeaux Shorts Biennale, France *honorable mention
Vagrant Film Festival, Minsk, Belarus
Arthouse Film Festival, Austin
MA/IN Festival + CRM - Centro di Ricerche Musicali, Rome, Italy
Lightpress Grant, Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle
Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas 4, Monterrey, Mexico
Light Matter at Kino Palais, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brooklyn Film Festival
New Jersey International Film Festival
Extremely Shorts, Aurora Picture Show, Houston
Open Air Media Festival, FilmScene, Iowa City
Post-Cinema Film Festival, Siracusa, Sicily, Italy *honorable mention
Sipontum Arthouse International Film Festival, Manfredonia, Puglia, Italy
ULTRAcinema at Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain
Cauldron International Film & Video Festival, Salt Lake City
"Conversación con Abinadi Meza" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
Light Matter at Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Quito
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico
NALAC Fund for the Arts Award, National Association of Latinx Arts & Cultures, San Antonio
Transmissions, Canopy, Austin
In Situ, In Tempore, XXVII Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Toulouse, France
Motion Media Arts Center, Austin
The Brain is the Screen, Labocine, Brooklyn
Light Matter at No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Light Matter at The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, NYC
"Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water)" Luigi Starace, 6th Wrong Biennale (Italy)
2023
Festival nodoCCS, Galería elRAiSE, Caracas, Venezuela
Iono, released on Mute Sound Records #53 Crimson, (CD) Zaragoza, Spain
ULTRAcinema at La Lumière Collective, Montréal, Canada
Bureau for Experimental Ethnography, Austin
Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Australia
Aura, Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, Mexico City
New Orleans Film Festival
Un-framing, Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, New York
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle
"No Justice, No Peace, Caixa Preta y Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water)" Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
ULTRAcinema XII, Mexico City, Xalapa, Toluca, Tepic, & Cuernavaca, Mexico + Cochabamba, Bolivia
Antimatter, Victoria BC, Canada
ULTRAcinema XII, Tijuana, Ensenada, Mexicali, & Tecate, Mexico
Strangloscope, Mostra Internacional de Video/Filme & Performance Experimental, Itajaí, Brasil
ULTRAcinema at Centro Teorema, Mexico City
Seeing is Dreaming, Aurora Picture Show, Houston
ULTRAcinema at La Memoria del Pez, Mazatlán, Mexico
Revolutions per Minute Festival, Boston
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 International Film Festival, Manfredonia, Puglia, Italy
"Eyeing the bounty of experimental films at CROSSROADS 2023" Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, 48Hills
Crossroads Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque/Gray Area, California
ULTRAcinema at Nayar LabCinema, Nayarit, Mexico
ULTRAcinema at Cine Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Chroma Art Film Festival, Miami
Suspaustas Laikas International Film & Arts Festival, 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 Festival, LTK4, Cologne, Germany
Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas 3, Monterrey, Mexico
"Exploring matter - Time Crystals and Tlaloc, a diptych by Abinadi Meza," Luigi Starace, et al., Ordet (Italy)
New Visions, Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada *best screenplay nominee
ULTRAcinema at STUFF MX Film Festival, Mexico City
Experimental Brasil Film Festival, Campos Dos Goytacazes *best experimental abstraction finalist
Surrounded by Colors We Could No Longer See, WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears, New York
AVIFF Film Festival, Cinema Les Variétés, Marseille, France
Wave Farm, New York, Artist-in-residence
Digital Celluloid, Brooklyn
Berlin Kiez Film Festival, Germany *best experimental
ULTRAcinema at 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 *honorable mention
ULTRAcinema at Cineteca Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
"Interview," Experimental Brasil
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown
"Tlaloc - Movie Review," Fabricio Estevam Mira, Experimental Brasil
New Year/New Work Film Festival, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, NYC
Chorion: A Film, Radio Amnion, London & Wave Farm + WGXC 90.7FM, New York
Cosmic Rays Touring Program at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
2022
Austin Arthouse Film Festival
Festival de Cine Radical, La Paz & El Alto, Bolivia
Saigon Experimental Film Festival
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
ULTRAcinema Asunción, Paraguay
Revelry, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston
"RECUERDO AQUELLOS DÍAS (PUDO HABER SIDO DIFERENTE)," Pablo Gamba, desistfilm
Cosmic Rays Touring Program at International Film Series, Boulder, Colorado
Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, New York
Cosmic Rays Touring Program at Vertical Cinema, Iowa City
"CROSSROADS 2022. PROGRAMA ONLINE ECHO 2," Mónica Delgado, desistfilm
VASTLab Experimental, Los Angeles
ULTRAcinema XI, Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico
Antimatter, Victoria BC, Canada
Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Ortometraggi Film Festival, Turin, Italy
Histories of Transformation/Historias de Transformación, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
Crossroads Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque/Gray Area, California
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival/Cineautopsia
Onyko Film Awards, Odesa, Ukraine & Tallinn, Estonia
Reading/book event "Sand Stories 3" at Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, Germany
Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
non-syntax, Taipei, Taiwan
Los Angeles Underground Film Forum *honorable mention
Reading/book launch, Marfa Book Co., Marfa, Texas
Kabayitos Microcinema, The Clemente Cultural Center, New York
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
"16 film in conocorso," Ordet (Italy)
Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Under the Radar Festival, Vienna * best international
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Vignola, Italy
Sipontum Arthouse International Film Festival, Manfredonia, Puglia, Italy *best editing & best experimental
XPRMNTL Anti-festival, London
"Interview," Elena Abbiatici, Arshake (Italy)
Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow & 87.9FM broadcast