SoBay Cultural Arts Festival *  February 18, 2012/7PM * Deering Estate * 16701 SW 72nd Ave.  Miami, FL     *This work addresses the history, energy and ecological importance of Florida’s waterways and the Everglades in particular via references to historical and...

Coming soon to haunt a café near YOU! Premiering at the Miami Beach Cinematheque Café 1130 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach December 1-4, 2011 Opening Reception December 2nd 7-10PM Created by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez.  Starring Anita Ponton.  Special thanks to Kevin McLeod for...

A disjointed experimental narrative that humorously explores the concept of sleepwalking and traveling through the terrain of the subconscious via the use of found footage, this work features such legendary movie icons as Betty Boop and the Sleepwalker from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari....

An abstract trance film by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez created from 16mm film footage originally shot at various outdoor locations across Miami as well as animated drawings depicting the subtropical landscape. The film footage is then hand-scratched, digitized and processed into a...

Five site-specific outdoor installations composed of hand-crafted film animations projected into foliage and trees at five public locations across Miami from June-October 2010.

Ellos y Nosotros: Them and Us   An installation consisting of two empty and disassembled bird cages and two identical videos created from hand-scratched film footage projected onto the bifurcated ceiling of the Project Room at Hollywood Art and Culture...

A dance theater piece by Brazilian choreographer Lucia Aratanha that combines experimental movement with multiple screen projections to create a visual and sensory adaptation of the short story “Amor” by Clarice Lispector.  Presented by Miami Light Project Here and Now Festival...

A music video depicting the plight of Earth Mother’s Daughter through the process of global overdevelopment via the use of found footage and psychedlic effects. Music by Fred Ho and the Green Monster Big Band. 2010, 05:14

A moving image installation created to showcase kinetic sculptures by Erman, this work addresses the psychology of immigration and relocation through the use of digital video combined with hand-crafted 16mm found footage. The work was originally shown as a giant projection on a gallery wall...

An installation in which a film has been deconstructed and hung in strips from a Grand Poinciana tree, while a video made from the same film strips is projected alongside of it. This installation was presented outdoors at Miami Beach Botanical Garden as part of the Sleepless Night 2009 event...

The seventh movement of “female alchemy: a videosymphony in seven movements” this piece was created as part of a step-by-step guide to womanhood dedicated to the artist’s daughters and designed to explore, honor and celebrate the many phases, choices and transits that make...

A beautiful bride suffers from an existential crisis while fluttering inside and outside of her cage. Directed and edited by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, cinematography by Isabel Cuervo, with actress Om Daya and music by award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank. Filmed at the abandoned...

A look at the relationship between cartoons, childhood memories, advertising, and human sexuality, and the drive to attain a state of purity in spite of it. Music by Valerie Opielski. 2005, 02:13

A graffitti remake of the classic Clairol hair dye ad from the 1960's using hand-scratching and hand-coloring techniques. This video was originally featured in the performance work Cabaret Unkempt by Jennylin Duany. 2006, 00:58

A one-hour multimedia performance in collaboration with Jennylin Duany and Elizabeth Doud of Las Negras Performance Ensemble.

Using found footage, hand-scratched, painted and then digitized, the artist draws an analysis of the current crisis in communication, cross-cultural understanding, social mores and spiritual values under the influence of technology, mass media and globalization. Soundtrack by J Foster Peone....

An image embarks upon a journey of self-discovery in response to a mysterious phone call. This media collage features hand-crafted 16mm film combined with digital video, performances by famed Cuban actress Magaly Agüero and filmmaker Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, and music by 1960’s Cuban...

A tribute to biophysical impulses, this 16mm assemblage of erotic images, scientific illustrations, and distressed footage presents an experiment in texture, psychological association and synchronicity. This piece exists in various versions wherein each one is synched to the soundtrack at a...

A multimedia performance series in collaboration with choreographer Octavio Campos and visual artist Michelle Weinberg.  IPO examines how the intuitive, fluid nature of artmaking is both disrupted and energized by the insertion of banal economic facts.  Through the use of interdisciplinary...

This stylistic 16mm film collage addresses balance between “feminine” and “masculine” forces and inner and outer realities. The work consists of three shorts and the animated sequences between them. Original score by Guillermo and Bobi Céspedes, Thierry Diallo, William R. Jack, Ustad Habib Khan and Auschim Chadhouri; animated drawings by Bárbara Safille.

A series of site-specific moving image installations consisting of a puppet made of reflective material (celluloid, metal plates) a film loop that is projected onto the puppet, throwing reflections of the projected imagery onto the surrounding environment, and a soundtrack of traditional...

This interactive moving image installation consists of hand-painted 16mm film loops projected into floor-to-ceiling mirrors and throwing reflected imagery outside onto the foliage visible through the studio’s sliding glass doors, with live music by Ken Field, John Eacott, James Espinas and...

Replicating the peep shows of the past, this moving image installation is presented inside of a closet.  The work consists of three erotic video loops presented within a “safe” viewing space into which one enters through a red velvet curtain.  Culled from over 20,000 feet of vintage...

Created in collaboration with artists Denise Delgado, Tatiana Saínz and Michelle Weinberg, this piece transforms a black box theatre space into an interactive unfolding of dramatic obsessions and transitory illusions utilizing 3-dimensional media, transparencies, video and 16mm projections....

“All the sex that we are having and not having in virtual reality…” A dreamscape in which distance, astral travel and communication technologies have modernized sexual love. Soundtrack by Ricardo Lastre. 06:45, 2007