[video] Time Crystals by Abinadi Meza, USA / Mexico

Time Crystals, 2021, color & black and white, sound, 5:35. Super 8 and 16mm film transfer to HD, single channel screening or multi-channel installation. Found footage short film in which a synthetic narrator describes patterns in time, which “she” calls time crystals. It is not clear if this film comes from an unknown future, is a consciousness loop, or a dream. Time Crystals is part of a film cycle of nine films from 2012-present.

Here in SAIFF's blog, Ordet: 

https://ordetv.blogspot.com/2023/07/focus-esplorare-la-materia-time.html

https://ordetv.blogspot.com/2022/02/i-vincitori-di-febbraio-2022-e-le.html

Press:

"He manages to make the viewer enter into 'intimacy' with what he is looking at in a particular way, not always clear...but pressing and seductive. Words chase each other with images and vice versa, in an unexpected game that apparently separates one from the other." - Anna Troiano

"Fascinating and enigmatic experimental short. Absent the music, the story itself becomes a persuasive musical rhythm to make the beautiful images even more evocative and powerful. Sensory and beautiful." - David Fratini

"A work as dense as a neutron star, which activates thoughts, memories and connections with the skilful use of found footage sequences and synthetic voice. To paraphrase Morin: every object in the universe, and therefore also the machine that speaks in this film, is a self-repeating and self-reproducing cycle, but life produces a new-same, as in a spiral that at each phase, while returning to the same point, does not cease to ascend. A new individual repeats the same species as the parents but proceeds along the path of evolution: «when faced with a new critical situation, only the new can save life. But this newness, which breaks with the recursive link, inscribes itself in it and thus transforms and preserves it». Perhaps the crystals of time are nothing more than the particles, the photograms, the evidence of ancient circular navigations in the ring of existence now the cultural and genetic heritage of the new cybernetic." - Antonio Universi

https://www.meza.work/time-crystals

Abinadi Meza (US/MX) is a Latinx-Indigenous artist who studied creative writing, art and architecture, and whose practice includes experimental film, sound art, and installation. Meza’s films are made with found and original footage, hand-painted film, and original soundtracks.