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Program 2: Advanced Exp. Video Art Works

SILENCES IN THE DARK

Jose Perez | Miami, FL USA

Many of us live in the shadows, and these shadows bear witness to our memories, longings, dreams, and frustrations. Recollection is obscure, and memory fades in flashes of light, like a forgotten image. (3 mins)

ECHOES OF ONESELF

Jorge Agustin Cuina Pace | Hollywood, FL USA

An experiment in self-perception, factured identity, overlapping timelines, and memory distortion. Are we truly in control, or mere echoes of ourselves? (2 mins)

LIFE IMITATES ART AND ART IMITATES LIFE

Karen Torres | Pembroke Pines, FL USA

"Life imitates art" and "art imitates life." It goes on as a cycle, over and over. The zoom into the eye indicates the birth of an idea in one's mind. (1 min)

ODDBALLS

Damien Carrie | Miami Gardens, FL USA

The exploration of two people taking their obsessive opinions too far. These opinions are expressed through the power of a remote. (3 mins)

UNISON EVOLUTION

Miguel Chamah | Miramar, FL USA

Transformation made manifest, mixing two styles of animation. Two dimensions once separated shall be made whole. The two sides transfer aspects of themselves into one another giving birth to a new form of life. Through this, a question is asked. Shall change be embraced, or shall stagnancy reign? (4 mins)

TRACE ELEMENTS

Alexis Schuffert | Miami, FL

Visions of a boat drifting through the waters off the coast of Key Largo slip beneath the surface into a space of silent immersion. Fleeting glimpses and distant siren songs remind us that; “you cannot eat money.” (2 mins)

REVERBERATIONS

Luisanna Cardenas | Miami, FL USA

A deeply personal video diary exploring the raw emotions tied to experiences that have quietly but profoundly shaped my life. Each entry unfolds a digital journal entry reflecting on core memories, faded connections, and transformations that occurred. (5 mins)

LINGUA MIAMI: BABELISM IN MAGIC CITY

Alessandra Henriqueza | Hialeah, FL USA

A linguistic exploration of Miami through the eyes of local residents. After experimenting with bilingualism in my own immigrant family, this film pierces the cultural soundscape of South Florida in 360 degrees—and we're not talking about the heat. (15 mins)

AI AY EYE

Frank Martinez | Miami Gardens, FL USA

An inevitable storm approaches as humanity must endure and fight against AI in order to even stand a chance to survive in. (2 mins)

THE LOONEY BIN

Marcos Garcia | Tamiami, FL USA

A cacophony of explosive mayhem and whimsy juxtaposes deadpan snark as a coastal transplant to Los Angeles descents into madness and begins to speak to cartoons only visible to him, combining dry improv with animated insanity. (8 mins)

DIVINA COMMEDIA

Guillermo Sainz | Miami, FL USA

A reflection upon the multiple works of art and artists that have been inspired by the classical text of the divine comedy including great figures like Gustave Dore and William Blake. (2 mins)

POLARITYa

Reinier Castellanos | Miami, FL USA

The creative mind has endless potential, dive deep as you are surrounded by pure creativity, a plethora of different sounds, and the everlasting charm of the artist's mind. Revel in catharsis as you expand your horizons in limitless ways. For what an artist is, an artist can become. (1 min)

GLARING

Juliette De Armas | Miami, FL USA

Street lights are artificial Stars. Hovering glare. (2 mins)

DIMENSIONAL VEIL

Alex Baker | Miami, FL USA

A faux-VR moment of reprieve from life that trots across the ever-thinning line between reality and digitization.Bywatchingthisimmersiveexperienceyouagreetothetermsthatthisisstillinalphaandmaycontainunexpectedglitches.Viewerdiscretionisadvisedastheartgalleryisnotheldliableforanyfeelingsofconcernbutembraceanyfeelingsofalleviation. - (3 mins)

UNREALITY

Amber Martinez | Miami, FL USA

As the world begins to make less and less sense, even everyday life seems out of place. (2 mins)

UNFINISHED/LOVESTORY

Tristan Cuenca | Homestead, FL USA

Set in Miami and Puerto Rico, a real-life couple explores the end of their relationship by re-creating the scenes they lived through. Boundaries between film and video, public and private space, and fact and fiction blur as reality appears to no longer resemble itself. Love has never been seen like this before. (7 mins)

Many of us live in the shadows, and these shadows bear witness to our memories, longings, dreams, and frustrations. Recollection is obscure, and memory fades in flashes of light, like a forgotten image.