Abinadi Meza (MX/US) is a Hñähñu artist, filmmaker, and composer. Trained in painting and architectural theory, he configures the moving image as a site of physical contact. His Elemental Cinema treats the 16mm substrate as a tactile, metabolic, and synesthetic document. Through hand-layered processes and electronic sound masses, Meza produces chromatic depth and luminosity. Polyphonic signals, microsound, and frequency interference converge in prismatic compositions where sound and moving image unfold as a resonant body. This investigation of material thresholds triggers a perceptual sublime. The work becomes dimensional, molecular architecture.

Meza is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (FAAR 15). His performances, installations, and public artworks have been presented at the Walker Art Center, MAXXI, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Helicotrema, and Blaffer Art Museum. His films have been featured in expanded cinema presentations by Public Art Fund and Film-Makers’ Cooperative; screenings include Anthology Film Archives, Cineteca Nacional de México, OCAT Shanghai, Crossroads, Proyector, Kasseler Dokfest, Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Vorspiel / CTM × Transmediale, Cinemateca do MAM Rio, and Beijing International Short Film Festival.

Meza holds an MFA in Art from the University of Minnesota and an M.Arch in Media & Theory from SCI-Arc, Los Angeles. His work is distributed by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative / New American Cinema Group, New York.

"Meza's video, with its blinding light and hypnotic movement, quietly rejoins tales of conversion. It is not a miracle. It is simply always snowing at the end of the world." Jane Blocker, Afterimage (UC Press)

"[Time Crystals] is one of the most original works I've seen in quite a long time... Memory, and film along with it, has mutated into some undefined state, as if the random access of our digital present broke down into an impressionistic miasma, from which logic and identity cannot be extracted. This is a work that resonates." Michael Sicinski, MUBI Notebook