The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York
Les presses du réel, Dijon, France
This site highlights selected works. It is not a comprehensive archive. Direct inquiries to studio@meza.work
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York
Les presses du réel, Dijon, France
This site highlights selected works. It is not a comprehensive archive. Direct inquiries to studio@meza.work
Abinadi Meza (MX/US) is a Hñähñu artist, filmmaker, and composer. Trained in painting and architectural theory, Meza configures the moving image as a site of physical contact. His Elemental Cinema treats the 16mm substrate as a tactile, metabolic, and synesthetic document. Meza employs hand-layered processes and electronic sound masses to produce chromatic depth and luminosity. He activates polyphonic signals, microsound, and frequency interference in prismatic compositions where sound and moving image unfold as a resonant body. This investigation of material thresholds triggers a perceptual sublime; it 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, Sonorities, 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, and Revolutions per Minute. He holds an MFA in Art from the University of Minnesota and an M.Arch in Media and 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
Rome Prize in Visual Art, American Academy in Rome
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Jerome Foundation, New York/St. Paul
Albertine/FACE Foundation, New York
Medialab-Matadero, Madrid
Tanne Foundation, Boston
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
National Association of Latinx Arts and Cultures (NALAC), San Antonio
Wave Farm, New York
Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle
ACRE, Chicago
Signal Fire, Portland
ES "Sunspots y Eyes Break into a Thousand Lights" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
EN "Beacon: Epistomologies of the Art Object" - Jane Blocker, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (PDF via UC Press)
EN "Texas Never Whispers: Watery, Domestic" - Ronnie Yates, Glasstire
EN "Signs of Dallas, Streams of Houston: Recent exhibitions in Texas" - William Sarradet, Glasstire
ES "Más cables que personas y Aka 赤" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
EN "Light Matter 2024: When Was I & Bajo de superficie" - Michael Sicinski, In Review Online
ES "Todo rostro es una forma que nos mira y Parangolé" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
ES "Conversación con Abinadi Meza" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
ES "No Justice, No Peace, Caixa Preta y Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water)" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
ES "Surrounded by Colors We Could No Longer See y Educación perdida" - Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos (Argentina)
EN "Eyeing the bounty of experimental films at CROSSROADS 2023" - Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, 48Hills
IT "Exploring matter - Time Crystals and Tlaloc, a diptych by Abinadi Meza," - Luigi Starace, et al., Ordet
EN Interview, Experimental Brasil
EN Tlaloc: Movie Review - Fabricio Estevam Mira, Experimental Brasil
EN "The Political Component of Noise in the Artistic Practices of the Last Century" - Elena Abbiatici, Arshake
EN "The Leftovers: Nine Experimental Films to Watch For" - Michael Sicinski, MUBI
EN Interview - Elena Abbiatici, Arshake
ES "RECUERDO AQUELLOS DÍAS (PUDO HABER SIDO DIFERENTE)" - Pablo Gamba, desistfilm
ES "CROSSROADS 2022. PROGRAMA ONLINE ECHO 2" - Mónica Delgado, desistfilm
IT "16 film in conocorso", Ordet