A temporal vivisection of a 1993 performance by Miami noise legends Harry Pussy.
Ochlockonee Split (2025)
Inspired by Bill Brown and Thomas Comerford’s ‘Chicago Detroit Split’ (2005), Ochlockonee Split deploys unslit double 8mm film to traverse the span of Ocklockonee Bay on Florida’s gulf coast. A sonic collage of local field recordings and a handheld, malfunctioning camera capture a fragmented portrait of the estuary at low tide–where the boundaries between land & sea, life & death, growth & decay, and our own sense of spatial orientation briefly collapse across the brackish water held between dueling images.
Screenings
2025 Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC) 2025 Tallahassee Film Festival (Tallahassee, FL)
Dysfluency Circuit (2024)
Human speech originates in neurological pathways deep within the brain, linking motor control centers to muscles and airways resulting in spoken language. Certain configurations of this system result in dysfluency, a disrupted flow of speech, commonly referred to as stuttering. While the signs of stuttering are easily visible to the outside observer–and often met with confusion or hostility–signal chains inside the speaker’s mind carve luminous loops and forge wayward networks. Utilizing neural mapping models, scans of decomposing nitrate film, and bare electrical signals from analog video equipment as source material, Dysfluency Circuit posits a neurological landscape of the stutterer, an internal physicality constantly at odds with the ableist urgency of everyday conversation and the capitalist economy.
Screenings 2025 Florida Film Festival (Orlando, FL) 2025 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (Oklahoma City, OK) 2025 Fisura Festival Internacional de Cine Y Video Experimental (Mexico City, DF) 2024 Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC) 2024 Tallahassee Film Festival (Tallahassee, FL) 2024 Oak Cliff Film Festival (Dallas, TX)
Picture a Forest (2023)
Single channel digital video. An anti-landscape performing its own impossible, inevitable annihilation. The north Florida woodlands fractured by strobe light, offering glimpses of its vitality and fragility. Over time, these flickering slices of the natural world become more corrupted and illegible, decaying into garbled datastreams. As the forest fails to preserve itself, it demands that we re-calibrate our vision.
Screenings 2024 Third Horizon Film Festival (Miami, FL) 2023 Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC) 2023 Strangloscope Experimental Film/Video, Audio, Performance International Festival (Itajaí, Brazil) 2023 FONLAD Video Art and Performance Festival (Coimbra, Portugal) 2023 Onion City Film Festival (Chicago, IL) 2023 Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival (Charlottesville, VA) 2023 Florida Film Festival (Orlando, FL) 2023 Chroma Art Film Festival (Miami, FL) 2023 Tallahassee Film Festival (Tallahassee, FL)
a beacon, a warning: Fowey Rocks (2021)
Single channel digital video. a beacon, a warning (Fowey Rocks) pays tribute to the Fowey Rocks Lighthouse, the last operational lighthouse in the Florida Straits located off the coast of Miami, the filmmaker’s home town. A site of historical wreckage and contemporary recreation, the lighthouse stands as a corroded, barnacle-encrusted symbol of the resiliency and precarity of a neon-laden city on the brink of being consumed by the sea. Watch on Vimeo.
Screenings 2023 Finger Mullet Film Festival (St. Augustine, FL) 2022 FLEX: Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival (Tampa, FL) 2022 Tallahassee Film Festival (Tallahassee, FL)
The Transcribed Koyaanisqatsi (2020)
Single channel digital video. A supercut by algorithm, a machine-generated futurist poem. Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 dialogue-less film (scored by Phillip Glass) processed through the speech-to-text function of a popular online video platform and re-edited to match the transcript. Watch on Vimeo.
avail this offer (2020)
Single channel digital video. A brief, forensic investigation into the tactics of predatory capitalism and synthetic media generation.
Single channel digital video. T A R T A M U D E O–a Spanish word for “stutter”–traces the connections between language, trauma, and cultural memory in a Cuban-American family. Assembled from archival fragments–home movies, educational films about stuttering, anti-Communist propaganda–and refracted through methods of analog and digital synthesis, the short video explores a shared loss of language between two generations–one spurned by violent revolution, the other by speech impediment. In English and Spanish w/ English and Spanish subtitles.
Screenings 2025 Docs: Speech Diversity (San Rafael Film Center, CA) 2023 Strangloscope Experimental Film/Video, Audio, Performance International Festival (Itajaí, Brazil) 2020 Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan) 2020 Cosmic Rays Film Festival (Chapel Hill, NC) 2020 That One Film Festival (Muncie, IN) 2019 Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC)
Eyewall: Case Study for Hyperobject (2019)
3 screen expanded cinema performance. Remixing archival footage of Miami in the wake of Hurricane Andrew, contemporary weather coverage, real estate virtual tours, and the writings of philosopher Timothy Morton, Eyewall interrogates the psychic legacy of hurricanes on one of the most ecologically vulnerable cities in the world. Commissioned by WDNA in Miami, FL. Watch on Vimeo
Music video for Faces (2019) commissioned by Tallahassee-based punk band, Deadenders
Unslit B&W 8(16)mm file. Shot in the mountains of Colorado, a short landscape film made as a loving tribute to the late filmmaker Peter Hutton. Exhibited as part of internationally touring program, A Roll for Peter. Distributed by Light Cone (digital) and Canyon Cinema (16mm).
Flan / Yeldham (2015)
B&W 8mm film transferred to digital. Live performances of Bobby Flan & Justice Yeldham recorded in Miami, FL. Watch on Vimeo.
Expanded Cinema
Clavilux 16mm and video projector performance, Action Research #176, Gainesville, FL (2017)
Dave Rodriguez 