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hurricane

An inner hurricane summons errant images and drifting fragments of time, dragging them toward a threshold that resists form. A voice, part invocation, part echo, emerges from within the storm. Between the lived and the imagined, memory disintegrates and reconfigures, not to be understood, but to be felt. This is a ritual of passage: where chaos becomes a kind of language, where what is lost is not retrieved, but transformed, and what dies, opens.

  • Héctor Almeida
    Director
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    huracán
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Genres:
    Found Footage, Video Art, Glitch, Home movies, Video Poetry
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 38 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 20, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Cuba
  • Country of Filming:
    Cuba
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Analog, VHS tape
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Héctor Almeida

Héctor Almeida (Cuba, 1995) is a filmmaker and film editor. His practice emerges from a sensibility that resists binary classifications of art and cinema, embracing a porous, unclassifiable territory where images circulate across languages, bodies, and devices. In 2023, he presented his debut film Para Esteban, a filmic letter on family memory selected at 70 international festivals and awarded the Funespaña Prize. In 2024, he received the Prince Claus Fund SEED Award and took part in DIP: Documentary, Intimacy and Staging Lab, where he developed the short Huracán and advanced his hybrid documentary project Tijeras, Palomas y Bajo Mundo. In 2025, he was awarded the Gwaertler Stiftung Grant.

His work has been developed through programs and study contexts such as Archivos y Activaciones, Euro CineLab, the CCEBA MediaLab, The New Centre for Research & Practice, and the School for Poetic Computation, and he is currently part of Film Workshop: language, limitations and experimentation (Invasión Cine). He is developing the documentary art game The Boy Aflame Who Couldn’t Fly, which emerged from the Documentary Chair Project Incubator at EICTV, received support through the Latinx In Gaming Grant, and is currently being explored through the online residency Sentimientos Encontrados.

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Director Statement

I created this work from a deep state of confusion. As a tropical storm was flying overhead, I was going through an emotional hurricane, a moment of blockage I couldn’t name, but one I needed to move through. What emerged wasn’t an answer, but a gesture: letting the chaos speak. I improvised, edited from intuition, allowing myself to fail, allowing myself to feel.

This hurricane-montage doesn’t seek to order or explain, but to gently sweep through, purify, and open space. Letting the images and sounds say what language cannot reach. It is also a way of looking back at childhood, that out-of-focus territory, without nostalgia, but with presence. In the whirlwind, something is lost, something is transformed, something dies… and something, simply, is revealed.

This piece was created as the final exercise for the 2024 DIP Lab (Documentary, Intimacy, and Staging) led by Argentine filmmaker Manuel Abramovich, and was further activated and explored within the working table of 2025 Archivos y Activaciones, directed by Argentine curator Romina Resuche.