Polychora
Director: Abinadi Meza
Crew:Producer: Abinadi Meza. Composer: Abinadi Meza
Email:studio@meza.work
Synopsis
A neuro-refuge of haptic cinema. Polychora moves between analog and digital, cellular and cosmic, organic membrane and fractal geometry. Chromatic masses drift through an aqueous prismatic field. A slowly-evolving electronic composition, biophilic and seemingly breathing, establishes volume. Image and sound suspend, fold, and dissolve duration, rendering time palpable as somatic experience. The screen becomes a space for inhabitation and refuge.
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About the director
Abinadi Meza is a Latinx-Indigenous artist based in Austin, Texas. His work has been presented internationally, including at: Anthology Film Archives, New York; Athens International Film & Video Festival; Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; Brooklyn Film Festival; Cineteca Nacional de México, Mexico City; Crossroads Festival, San Francisco; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro; Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Kassel Dokfest, Germany; Light Matter, New York; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; MAXXI, Rome; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara; New Orleans Film Festival; Proyector, Madrid; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis among other places.
Filmmaker's note
Polychora is the newest component of my Elemental Cinema series (2022–present). It investigates higher-dimensional structures within an architecture of time. The title invokes a convergence of the "polychoron," a four-dimensional geometry, and the "polychron," a multi-temporal logic.
The cinema screen is configured as a phenomenological site designed to investigate durational focus and thresholds of perception. By dilating handmade 16mm direct animation into extreme slow motion, the film strip is transmuted from a flat surface into a voluminous, topological membrane. Within this aqueous prismatic field, light assumes a granular, life-like viscosity.
The soundworld functions as an environmental extension of the image. Mirroring the visual’s recursive movement, sound and image unfold as a unified spectral sediment where vibrational masses generate dimensional architecture. Polychora unfolds as an environment for contact with embodied time and the recursive frequencies of sensory memory.