Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water), 2023

color, sound, 8:43, 16mm cameraless film

A physical inscription of liquid velocity. A torrent of light and color. Tlāloc is invoked through fluid intensity and molecular mass. A spectral storm; a metabolic document.

"A boldly physical viewing experience" Other Cinema

"A naturalistic work masked as experimental that narrates the corrosion of ancestral memory and the repetitive nature of elemental events. Not everything that exists can be deciphered or decoded according to the parameters known to us." Luigi Starace, Stato Quotidiano

"A convocation of elemental spirits... a command for light against impending darkness that summons intangible forces of creation." Antimatter

"In a short time of projection, you begin to be induced into a semi-hypnotic state of unreality where everything improbable becomes possible. A languid anxiety begins to long for cosmic surrealism and physical transmutations... I can easily imagine, in a pre-internet era, cinephiles gathering in totally exclusive circles to watch a certain forbidden film capable of this and that, made by a certain Abinadi Meza, who disappeared mysteriously after completing the work." Fabricio Estevam Mira, Experimental Brasil

Selected Screenings & Installations

World / South American Premiere: Experimental Brasil, Rio de Janeiro 

European Premiere: Torino Underground Cinefest, Italy 

North American Premiere: Engauge Experimental Film, Seattle 

Featured Screening: No Swimsuit Required: Water Works, Public Art Fund x The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York. Curated by Gabriela López Dena & Tom Day. Live soundtracks by Eli Keszler and Maria Chavez

Featured Screening: Other Cinema, San Francisco. Curated by Kornelia Boczkowska 

Featured Screening: Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo, Barcelona 

Featured Screening: Kino Palais, Buenos Aires 

Featured Screening: Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Quito

Installation: Summoned, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria 

Official Selection: Light Matter, Alfred

Official Selection: Revolutions per Minute (RPM), Boston

Official Selection: Antimatter, Victoria 

Official Selection: Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque 

Official Selection: ULTRAcinema, Mexico City 

Official Selection: Strangloscope, Brazil 

Official Selection: Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas (EIC), Monterrey

Official Selection: Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Official Selection: Sipontum Arthouse, Italy