B0YG1RL

B0YG1RLMUS1C is a feature-length experimental film that follows a Black queer and trans artistic collective in 2025 Miami as they document their lives in the moment before what they believe to be their inevitable big break. Parallel to their story, a sentient supercomputer in the year 2225 ruminates on the city’s collapse, searching for meaning in humanity’s demise. Blending vérité documentary with surrealist sci-fi, the film juxtaposes spirituality, artificial intelligence, environmental decay, and queer futurism. Developed through Masisi Studio, the project includes an original electronic score by local collaborators and will screen in alternative venues across Miami, from clubs to community spaces.

Moving Image Alliance - 16mm for Contemporary Artists

Moving Image Alliance is a hands-on workshop series designed to introduce digital-native artists to the practices and poetics of analog filmmaking. Led by media artist Barron Sherer, the program focuses on 16mm techniques including Bolex camera operation, hand-processing black-and-white film, and scanning footage for digital use. Through free, juried workshops hosted at Miami-based arts and archival spaces, participants will explore the material and historical possibilities of celluloid while developing their own moving image works. The project equips a new generation of experimental filmmakers while expanding Sherer’s ongoing initiative to preserve legacy cinema technologies.

Mystic Triangle

Mystic Triangle is a decade-long film and research project exploring sacred Vodou ceremonies in Souvenance, Badjo, and Soukri, three of Haiti’s most spiritually significant Lakou, or ceremonial compounds where ritual, oral history, and ancestral memory converge. Using interviews, field recordings, and layered soundscapes, the project honors Haitian spiritual life through a cinematic lens shaped by cultural intimacy and lived experience. Screenings and public conversations in Little Haiti at venues including Lakou Café and the Little Haiti Cultural Complex aim to open dialogue and reflection across the Haitian diaspora.

First Come, First Serve

First Come, First Serve is a documentary film that traces the layered history of the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, a chaotic, iconic flea market and drive-in that has long served as a launchpad for South Florida’s immigrant communities. Blending personal storytelling, archival footage, and visual collage, the film weaves together three narratives: the Swap Shop’s rise as a cultural and economic hub, the artistic journey of painter Marie Franco, and the uncertain future of this rapidly changing landmark. Presented alongside a portrait exhibition, the film captures a vanishing landmark through layered, personal perspectives.

Ah Lil' Noise Later

Ah Lil’ Noise Later is a site-specific research project by Miami-based artist Gabriel Soomar that explores how Black Atlantic sonic cultures shape public space, memory, and architectural perception. Proposed for Green Haven in Overtown, the project centers on the design of a custom-built modular sound system inspired by Caribbean sonic traditions. Part sculpture, part platform, the system functions as a material study in how sound choreographs emotion, animates ritual, and shapes collective space. Alongside the structure, Soomar will develop a montage film using archival footage, field recordings, and experimental editing to examine how sound records, distorts, and reimagines place. Together, the installation and film consider how sound might shape our experience of architecture.

Canto al Árbol

Canto al Árbol is an intergenerational songbook and multimedia project that honors the trees of Miami and the wisdom of community elders. Rooted in a series of free workshops led by Serra alongside her mother, grandmother, and local musicians, the project invites participants to share cultural and spiritual relationships with trees. Drawing from Venezuelan traditions where plant knowledge is passed down through song, Canto al Árbol re-centers nature and elders as vital teachers. Through public performances and video portraits, the project preserves these stories in lasting form, connecting memory, land, and song.

Sinpay|Trenzar

Sinpay|Trenzar is an ongoing participatory project that uses braiding as a collective action for storytelling and community connection across the Andean diaspora. Beginning in Miami and expanding through gatherings in Chicago, Perú, and Indiana, the project invites participants to contribute to evolving trenzas made of hemp rope and local materials while sharing personal histories of hair, memory, and heritage. With each braid, new stories are woven into the work, which also incorporates video documentation and community-led activations. Supported by the North Miami Beach Public Library and other cultural partners, Sinpay|Trenzar supports cultural visibility, shared dialogue, and connection among Andean communities in South Florida and beyond.

SEED Erosion Blocks

SEED Erosion Blocks is a research-driven installation that repurposes invasive sargassum seaweed into modular concrete blocks designed to stabilize shorelines and support coastal plant growth. Developed through interdisciplinary collaboration with engineers and marine scientists, the project combines climate-adaptive design with material science that repurposes waste as infrastructure. Each block integrates planter cavities and solar lighting, forming a scalable prototype for erosion control that doubles as public art. Installed at sites across South Florida’s beaches, SEED Erosion Blocks introduce an experimental model for sustainable coastal design rooted in art, science, and site-specific research.

Constructs

Constructs is a site-specific, durational installation that unfolds over three hours, beginning at sunset and ending at nightfall. Blurring the line between sculpture and performance, the work evokes an illusory construction site—part artifact, part inhabited structure—in a slow crescendo of movement, sound, and shifting form. Using bricks, sand, wood, aluminum, and light, performers activate the space through choreographed actions and live sound loops captured by embedded microphones and sensors. Themes of displacement, fragility, resilience, and transformation emerge as materials are built up, broken down, and rearranged. Without being fully participatory, the installation invites audiences to enter and witness its evolution from multiple vantage points, becoming part of a sensory environment where image and sound build toward a totality.

Kahayatle

Kahayatle is a collaborative multimedia installation that centers the Miccosukee Tribe’s sovereign relationship to the Everglades and the cultural memory embedded in the land. Developed in partnership with the Tribe’s archives department, the project documents oral histories, field recordings, and video footage tied to sites such as the Everglades Study Research Trip, the Tamiami Trail, and a community garden impacted by diverted water flow. Taking its name from the Indigenous word for “a bright, lit place” and “water that is bright,” Kahayatle brings together sound, memory, and story to illuminate the intertwined ecological histories of the Everglades and Miami.