2023
- Contra-fluxos, co-curated with Margarida Mendes, June-July, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto, Portugal.
- Ancestralidad y trance, co-curated with Colectivo los Ingrávidos, as part of the Archival Assembly #2 Accidental Archivism. Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin, Germany
- An Evening with Colectivo los Ingrávidos, co-curated with Colectivo los Ingrávidos, March 13, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Cinema of Sensations: the Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar, March 10—September 10, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
- Joan Lyons, co-curated with Jessica Marten, February 25—August 13, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
- Crystal Z Campbell: Lines of Sight, February 8, 2023—January 7, 2024, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
2022
- Un gesto, un devenir en fuga, co-curated with Florencia Mazzadi para CineMigrante Argentina. Three programs featuring the work of Ephraim Asili, Ayo Akingbade, Rhea Storr, Colectivo los Ingrávidos, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Filipa Cesar, and Sonia Vaz Borges. For a complete description of the program click here.
- Films from the Flaherty, co-programmed with Sky Hopinka, August 17, 2022 at the Museum of Modern Art.
- 67th Flaherty Seminar Continents of Drifting Clouds, co-programmed with Sky Hopinka, June 25 – July 1, 2022 at Colgate University (Hamilton, NY) and online.
- The Mountains Have Eyes, at the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale, CO, as part of Mountain / Time at the Aspen Museum of Art.
- Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, program advisor with Dennis Lim and Rachael Rakes. Programmers preview.
- Spotlight series. Media City Film Festival 25th Anniversary. A selection of moving image artwork by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Cecilia Vicuña, Ximena Cuevas, and Tânia Dinis, part of Media City Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary virtual edition streaming online February 8 through March 1, 2022.
- Sky Hopinka: Memories of Movement, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY. The exhibition includes Dislocated and Ordinary featuring four titles that exemplify Hopinka’s poetic visual language. These films are a form of political affirmation of contemporary Indigeneity, and they also offer a space of encounter and inquiry for the non-Indigenous.
2021
- Fabulación de archivos. Restos de una opacidad, co-curated with Vanja Munjín Paiva y Florencia Mazzadi para CineMigrante Argentina. Seven programs featuring the work of Ismaïl Bahri, Maddi Barber, Gabriel Herrera, Carlos María Romero, Faraz and Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ana Vaz, Kitso Lynn Lelliott, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Suneil Sanzgiri, Shireen Seno, Crystal Z Campbell, Anina Major, Riar Rizaldi, Andrés Janacua, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Monira Al Qadiri, Deanne Bowen, Heesoo Kwon, and Thirza Cuthand. For a complete description of the films check here.
- Sky Hopinka – Una parte sin un todo, CineMigrante Argentina.
- Colectivo los Ingrávidos – La región más transparente, CineMigrante Argentina.
- Ancestralidad y Trance, collaboration with Colectivo los Ingrávidos, SPACEGallery, films by Colectivo los Ingrávidos, Stan Brakhage, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Teo Hernández, José Val del Omar, y Santiago Álvarez combined with spells, poems, calligrams, manifestos, and textual fragments written in Nahuatl, Spanish, English and Portuguese, by Nezahualcóyotl, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, José Val del Omar, Maya Deren, the New American Cinema, Sky Hopinka, Dziga Vertov, Glauber Rocha, and Jean Rouch.
- Tony Cokes: Market of the Senses, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
- Co-curator with Tara Merenda Nelson of Poetry of the Everyday, films by Rose Lowder, Tara Merenda Nelson, Helga Fanderl, and Anne Charlotte Robertson at the Memorial Art Gallery
- Tara Merenda Nelson: FourMats at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
- myth defies history, jury program presented at Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS)
- Im/perceptible Images, films by belit sağ at the Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival
- Sarah Friedland: Assembled Choreographies at the Hartnett Gallery. Read Murmurations: A Conversation Between Sarah Friedland and Tess Takahashi on CROWDS in IVC, commissioned for the exhibition.
- Crystal Z Campbell: from the corner of my eye at the Hartnett Gallery.
2020
- Melting Animals at the Memorial Art Gallery. *This is an Art Bridges Foundation funded project.
- Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, program advisor with Dennis Lim and Rachael Rakes. Programmers preview.
- Alison Nguyen: i broke my mind at the link in my bio at the Hartnett Gallery.
- Más Allá de lo Real (co-programado con Germán Ayala), 22 Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá. This program was in tandem with the seminar PRESENTE PERFECTO. CINE DOCUMENTAL ESPECULATIVO. Four programs including work by Ben Rivers, Ana Vaz, Sky Hopinka, Viera Čakányová, Basim Magdy, Lois Patiño, y Gürcan Keltek. More information in Spanish here.
- Warhol T.V. at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
- Shamanic Materialism: Autonomous Forms of Remembrance, co-curated with Colectivo los Ingrávidos in dialogue with the Visual Studies Workshop film archive. Twelve Frames of Relation exposes the colonial view and the link between knowledge, classification, possession and control. 24 Omens is a magical view, in praise of superstition that embraces non-objective forms of knowledge. Online at Visual Studies Workshop.
- Michael Bosworth: Transference, Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY
2019
- Ja’Tovia Gary: Giverny I (NÉGRESSE IMPÉRIALE) at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY. Read the press release and the exhibition’s wall text.
- La tierra que respira two programs including the work by Colectivo los Ingrávidos and Sky Hopinka:
- Cineteca Nacional de México, Mexico City (November 7, 2019): When you’re lost in the rain (2019) by Sky Hopinka; La región más transparente (2019) by Colectivo los Ingrávidos; I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become (2016) by Sky Hopinka; Pirámide Erosionada (2019) by Colectivo los Ingrávidos; Anti-Objectos, o espacio sin camino ni límite (2017) by Sky Hopinka, 2017; Soldadera / Percusión Visual (2014) by Colectivo los Ingrávidos.
- La Cueva (microcinema), Mexico City (November 8, 2019): Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer (2019) by Sky Hopinka; Nos han dado la tierra (2013) by Colectivo los Ingrávidos; Dislocation Blues (2017) by Sky Hopinka; Conflagración (2017) by Colectivo los Ingrávidos
- kelli rae adams: work / study, Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY
- Images that Breathe: Radical Memory in Times of Amnesia, UnionDocs, Center for Documentary Art, New York City.
- Kalup Linzy: Conversations wit de Churen V: As da Art World Might Turn at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY. To download the wall-text click here.
- The Division of Love at Baltic Analog Lab in Riga, Latvia
- Intimate Topographies as part of Cinema Camp, Salos manor, Lithuania
- Manager of exhibitions during the 65th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar curated by Shai Heredia. Colgate University, Hamilton NY
- Curatorial assistant, Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass second exhibition within the Memorial Art Gallery’s “Reflections on Place” series of media art commissions informed by the history, culture, and politics of the City of Rochester, NY
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- Collective Programmer of On Duty & Spirit: An Evening with Reece Auguiste, On Film screening series, University of Rochester
- Jury program for The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival (FLEX), Tampa, Florida
- Sondra Perry: Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I & II, Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY
2018
- Curator of Weightless Present, a selection of works by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, as part of The Alternative Film/Video film festival, Belgrade, Serbia.*Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) supported my participation in the Alternative Film/Video Festival through the Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE), in the framework of Mobility grants.
- Curator of Just Leave Me Alone, as part of the Curatorial Incubator v. 15, What the F**K?!: Video in the Age of Sublime Uncertainty, VTape, Toronto, ON
- Guest curator of the Reapropiación/Found Footage section of ULTRAcinema 2018, Xalapa, Mexico.
- Programming Committee member of the 53rd Media City Film Festival, Windsor-Detroit
- Curatorial assistant and project manager for the exhibition Peter Fischli & David Weiss: The Way Things Go curated by John G. Hanhardt as part of the Media Arts Watch initiative at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
- Manager of exhibitions during the 64th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar curated by Kevin Jerome Everson and Greg de Cuir Jr. Colgate University, Hamilton NY
- Co-Curator, with Herb Shellenberger, of Common Visions, aemi, The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland
- Programmer of the screening The Dance of Memory / La Danza del Hipocampo (2014) by Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba for the Women’s History Month Film Series 2018: Women Who Fight, The Little Theater, Rochester
- Co-Curator, with Herb Shellenberger, of Common Visions, Flaherty NYC series, Anthology Film Archives
- For Life Against the War
- Free Jazz with Bodies
- Future in the Past
- “Hello, You’re On Live”
- I Do Not Remember
- What You See is What You Get
- Collective Programmer of Documentary Attunements, On Film screening series, University of Rochester
2017
- Manager of exhibitions during the 63rd Robert Flaherty Film Seminar curated by Nuno Lisboa, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
- Collective Programmer of Immigration and Displacement, On Film screening series, University of Rochester
- Co-programmer, with Deborah Stratman, of Thin Places: Works by Deborah Stratman, University of Rochester
- Co-Programmer of Women’s History Month Film Series 2017: Trailblazing Women, The Little Theater, Rochester
2016
- Collective Programmer of Queer Longings: Narratives of Desire, On Film screening series, University of Rochester
- Collective Programmer of Voicing On Film, On Film screening series, University of Rochester
2015
- Collective Programmer of Ben Russell’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, with Ben Russell in person, On Film screening series, University of Rochester
- Godina & Marc on Film, screening programmed and presented by Jurij Menden, On Film screening series, University of Rochester
2014
- Andy Warhol’s Sexy Silent Films, screening programmed and presented by Douglas Crimp, On Film screening series, University of Rochester
- Programmer of the London Spanish Film Festival Short Film Section (2012-2016)
2011
- Co-curator, with Julian Ross, of Seasons Inter View. Takashi Makino for Zipangu Fest at Apiary Studios, London, UK
- Co-curator, with Julian Ross, of Enter the Cosmos: Takashi Makino for Zipangu Fest at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
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