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...
elixir
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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...
Parlor Tricks
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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...
Sex Tabú
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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
Blondes
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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
Cabaret Unkempt
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
A one-hour multimedia performance in collaboration with Jennylin Duany and Elizabeth Doud of Las Negras Performance Ensemble.
Global Medea
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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....
Un nombre de Mujer
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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...
l’anatomie du ...
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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...
IPO
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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...
A Trilogy
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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.
Everywhere, Marie
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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...
Image Party
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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...
Set: A Set of Settin...
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
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....
TELEPATIA
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
“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 Tweet
Cortejo
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
A visit to the cemetery unleashes the force of the feminine psyche in this surreal narrative starring Cuban actress and performance artist Magaly Agüero, and set to original score by Ken Field of the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble. 04:26,...
The Anatomy of Desir...
posted by Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez
An evening-length work choreographed, directed and performed by Butoh artist Helena Thevenot with live music by experimental sound artist Gustavo Matamoros. This piece includes a segment of 16mm projection onto the performer’s body, exploring and deconstructing the physical and...