Surrounded by Colors We Could No Longer See, 2023 

color, sound, 4:34, Super 8 and 16mm

The US/Mexico borderlands function as a terrain of memory and a collection zone for scattered histories. The film serves as a parallel manifestation of Meza’s text published in Manual For a Future Desert (Mousse, Milan). It draws from personal, family, and collective histories; the archive becomes a layered dreamscape.

"The title alone for Abinadi Meza's extremely personal diaristic film brings me tears, much less the quietly profound images of the director's family history." Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, 48hills, San Francisco

"Through collapsed timelines and careful framing, the work prompts new ways for considering and visualizing the land anew—centering the multitude of complexities that connect us to it." Christina Battle, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF)

"It is the most moving of Meza's works: an experience of a family without their own place... where what is seen is pure film, as if it were the pure matter of which memories are made." Pablo Gamba, Los Experimentos

Screenings & Installations

World Premiere / Installation: Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin

International Premiere: Winnipeg Underground Film Festival. Curated by Christina Battle

European Premiere: Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Toulouse

Official Selection: Crossroads, San Francisco

Official Selection: New Orleans Film Festival

Official Selection: Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, New York

Official Selection: Aurora Picture Show, Houston

Official Selection: Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas 3, Monterrey