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Abinadi Meza is a Latinx-Indigenous (Otomí - México) artist, filmmaker, and composer. Trained in painting and architectural theory, his practice investigates the intersection of architecture, phenomenology, and the materiality of the moving image. Across three decades of sustained practice, he has configured the moving image as a site of physical contact. His non-narrative Elemental Cinema employs hand-layered 16mm processes and electronic sound masses to produce intense chromatic depth and luminous transparency. Utilizing non-traditional instrumentation and live electronics, Meza develops integrated compositions where sound and image converge as dimensional, atmospheric architecture.

A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Meza’s work is distributed by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative / New American Cinema Group, New York. His media works, performances, and installations have been presented at leading international institutions including the Walker Art Center, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, FACT Liverpool, and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

His films have screened at Anthology Film Archives, New York, Cineteca Nacional de México, and international festivals including Crossroads, San Francisco, Kassel Dokfest, Germany, Aesthetica, UK, and Vorspiel / CTM x Transmediale, Berlin. His work has earned critical acclaim in publications such as Afterimage and desistfilm. He holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota and an M.Arch in Media & Theory from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles.