Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water), 2023

color, sound, 8:43

16mm film transfer to HD, single channel screening or multi-channel installation

An enigmatic otherworld where hues of water evolve into prismatic blooms. Tlāloc is the water god of rain, fertility, and storms in the Aztec pantheon, and the lord of the drowned.

"A boldly physical, almost immersive viewing experience" - Other Cinema, San Francisco

Selected Screenings/Awards:

• World premiere: Experimental Brasil Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, 2023 *Best Experimental Abstraction, finalist

• Berlin Kiez Film Festival *Best Experimental Film

• Engauge Experimental Film Festival/Northwest Film Forum, Seattle

• Torino Underground Cinefest, Italy

• ULTRAcinema XII, Mexico

• RPM Festival, Boston

• Strangloscope, Itajaí, Brazil

• Light Matter, New York

• Motion Media Arts Center, Austin

• Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, New Mexico

• Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Quito

• Kino Palais, Buenos Aires

• Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas 4, Monterrey, Mexico

• Bordeaux Shorts Biennale, France *Honorable Mention

• New Jersey International Film Festival

• Public Art Fund + The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York

• Other Cinema, San Francisco

• Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria BC

• Oklahoma City Museum of Art