Time Crystals, 2021

color & black and white, sound, 5:35, Super 8 and 16mm

An investigation of temporal propagation and the lattices of memory. A synthetic narrator, Ouroboros A2M37, chronicles phase transitions from formlessness to states of crystalline order. The film is a document of the "Time Crystal," a manual for synthetic evolution inscribed with glitches and inclusions. A fractured taxonomy of growth. A dream becomes a film.

Part of The Ouroboros Transmissions, a multi-film cycle (2012–2023).

"One of the most original works I've seen in quite a long time...the film has the feeling of a long-lost artifact, its distressed surface suggesting the neglect of a society that has perhaps moved beyond its need for images." Michael Sicinski, MUBI Notebook

"A work as dense as a neutron star, activating thoughts and connections through found footage and synthetic voice. Life here is a spiral: while returning to the same point, it does not cease to ascend. Perhaps the crystals of time are nothing more than the photograms of ancient circular navigations. They represent the cultural and genetic heritage of the new cybernetic." Antonio Universi, Ordet

"There is a reflection on the very nature of these images that contains something beyond their simple representation... For Meza, the 'time of crystals' is the possibility of the mercurial, changeable, and fluid." Monica Delgado, Desistfilm

"Fascinating and enigmatic experimental short. With the music absent, the story itself becomes a persuasive musical rhythm to make the beautiful images even more evocative and powerful. Sensory and beautiful." David Fratini, Ordet

Screenings & Installations 

World / North American Premiere: Houston Cinema Arts Festival. Curated by Michael Sicinski

European Premiere: Under the Radar, Vienna. Best International Film

Asian Premiere / Installation: non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Taipei 

South American Premiere: Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro 

Featured Screening: Digital Celluloid, Seven House Gallery, New York. Curated by Emily Singer

Featured Screening: La Lumière Collective, Montreal

Official Selection: New Year/New Work, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York

Official Selection: Crossroads, San Francisco 

Official Selection: Antimatter, Victoria

Official Selection: Light Matter, Alfred

Official Selection: Revolutions per Minute (RPM), Boston

Official Selection: Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival

Official Selection: Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / Cineautopsia

Official Selection: Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill

Official Selection: VASTLAB Experimental, Los Angeles