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). His media works, live performances, and installations 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, FACT Liverpool, art + film + vienna, Crossroads, Kasseler Dokfest, MA/IN Festival x Centro Ricerche Musicali, Beijing International Short Film Festival, Vorspiel / CTM × Transmediale, Cinemateca do MAM Rio, and Punto y Raya.

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 work—with its tempestuous darkness and unnatural orange glow, its sonic reference to cars and carbon fuels—does not function as a 'neutral, peripheral stage set,' but rather as an instance of the 'very visible, highly monitored, publicly debated climate." Jane Blocker, Afterimage

"Meza is a multimedia artist [whose] work has been in the area of sound installation. This concern with ambiance and envelopment is wholly evident... 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." Michael Sicinski, MUBI Notebook

"Meza’s films belong to the contemporary current of analogue resistance; they transfigure modernity to maintain what was once novel without falling into nostalgia." Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos

"Meza has worked a lot on hacking and radio incursions—on the interference and overlapping of sounds that create a cacophony... clandestine actions [that] are part of the concept of noise as a constant background in the practice of disinformation." Elena Giulia Abbiatici, Arshake