Eight of My Videos Selected for IMAGE PLAY 2025 (wow!)

I’m thrilled to share some big news: eight of my video works have been selected for IMAGE PLAY 2025, curated by Hernando Urrutia. It’s rare—and deeply gratifying—to see a broad arc of my practice presented together, from AI-assisted cinema and animated collage to performance-driven, site-responsive pieces. This invitation doesn’t just spotlight isolated works; it traces a living conversation I’ve been having with image, sound, memory, and machine for years.

Why IMAGE PLAY matters

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival is devoted to expanding the language of video across cultures and technologies. It’s a space where audiovisual thinking is as important as aesthetics, and where experimentation is not an exception but the rule. The festival champions the exchange of methods and experiences, fostering that fertile tension between thought and action, creativity and innovation—exactly the terrain where my work feels most at home.

Eight works, one evolving inquiry

Together, these eight videos map a landscape where bodies, architectures, and algorithms co-author narratives. Each piece asks how images behave when they’re not merely captured but constructed, performed, trained, hallucinated, or remembered. While the works differ in tone and technique, they share a few persistent fascinations:

Performance and presence. I often begin with a gesture—subtle or ritualized—then let the camera, the edit, or an AI model push that gesture into unfamiliar terrain. The result is a flicker between the intimate and the uncanny.

Architectures that think. Buildings aren’t backgrounds; they are characters—mirrors for identity, repositories of memory, and stages for transformation. Light, texture, and sound become dramaturgy.

The machinic gaze. AI is not a shortcut but a collaborator that asks new questions: what is continuity when characters are templated by prompts? What is truth when worlds are generated? Where does authorship live in an iterative pipeline of human and machine?

Myth and the everyday. I like to nest small, familiar moments—an object handled, a door opening—inside larger speculative myths. The friction between them is the spark.

Process notes for the curious

Many of these videos are layered productions: concept development, visual drafting, reference photography, AI-based image generation, manual compositing, in-painting, and frame-accurate timing for motion. I treat AI models as granular instruments—useful not just for output but for provoking decisions: reframing a scene, pushing a texture into abstraction, or testing how a character reads across radically different environments. From there, editing and sound design re-anchor the work in time—breath, rhythm, silence.

What I’m most proud of is consistency: characters and settings that remain recognizably themselves even as they drift through surreal atmospheres. It’s the discipline of cinema meeting the elasticity of computational image-making. OFFICIAL SELECTION IMAGE PLAY VII EDITION

1ª SESSÃO | 1st SESSION – 13/NOV/2025

OFFICIAL SELECTION IMAGE PLAY VII EDITION

- Curator Hernando Urrutia

1 ► HELLO WORLD - ENTROPY – 6’13” Francesca Fini ( Italy – Itália )

2 ► ENGRANAJE – 7’05’’ Isabel Perez del Pulgar ( Spain – Espanha | France – França)

3 ► TRANXENOBOTS – 6’32’’ Iury Lech ( Spain – Espanha )

4 ► THE BODY IS A GUSTURE – 7’30’’ Guli Silberstein ( United Kingdom - Reino Unido )

5 ► CLOUDS – 0’ 52’’ Arnaud Laffond ( France – França )

6 ► PARADISE LOST – 6’25’’ Francesca Fini ( Italy – Itália )

7 ► LEAFY WEFT – 11’14’’ Hugo Olim & Vitor Joaquim ( Portugal )

8 ► DOT WITH ILUMMINATION – 6’06’’ Eduardo Medina - ESSTRO9 ( Mexico – México )

9 ► FIELD OF INFINITY – 5’00’’ Guli Silberstein ( United Kingdom - Reino Unido )

10 ► NEX_GENESIS OF THE ABYSS – 2’18’’ Iury Lech ( Spain – Espanha )

11 ► PAPER WORLD – 3’53” Francesca Fini ( Italy – Itália )

12 ► SCARS – 12’ 19’’ Ivan Abreu ( Cuba | Mexico – México )

13 ► ENTELECHIA OBSCURA – 4’00’’ Antonella Mignone & Cristiano Panepuccia - APOTROPIA ( Italy – Itália )

14 ► RADIUM – 5’00’’ Iury Lech ( Spain – Espanha )

15 ► MELTING QUARTER/QUARTER – 5’29’’ Malitzin Cortes – CNDSD ( Mexico – México )

2ª SESSÃO | 2nd SESSION – 14/NOV/2025

 OFFICIAL SELECTION IMAGE PLAY VII EDITION

- Curator Hernando Urrutia

1 ► SUEÑO DE UN ANDROIDE – 8’27’’ Isabel Perez del Pulgar ( Spain – Espanha | France – França)

2 ► BINARY BLUES – 11’24’’ Francesca Fini ( Italy – Itália )

3 ► MAGNETAn² – 5’05’’ Iury Lech ( Spain – Espanha )

4 ► BECOMING – 4’49’’ Hugo Olim & João Ricardo ( Portugal )

5 ► ARP 299 – 1’ 42’’ Arnaud Laffond ( France – França )

6 ► THE 2225 RACE – 8’44’’ Francesca Fini ( Italy – Itália )

7 ► MATERIALIVE – 5’00’’ Guli Silberstein ( United Kingdom - Reino Unido )

8 ► ECHOES IN DATAFLESH #12 – 1’13’’ Iury Lech ( Spain – Espanha )

9 ► A DREAM IN STONE – 14’47’’ Francesca Fini ( Italy – Itália )

10 ► MOUNTAIN FRAGILITY – 4’49’’ Arnaud Laffond ( France – França )

11 ► TU SEI QUI (YOU ARE HERE) – 6’04’’ Francesca Fini ( Italy – Itália )

12 ► ALPACA SESSIONS: Artists pushing live algorithmic sonic patterns forward – 03’51’’ Malitzin Cortes – CNDSD ( Mexico – México )

13 ► SOMNIUM CORVI – 5’29’’ Francesca Fini ( Italy – Itália )

SPECIAL PROGRAMME SPANISH A/R/TOGRAPHY FILMS: GENERATIVE NARRATIVES - 2025

International Exhibition of A/R/Tographic Video Narration – SPAIN

- Curator Angel García Roldán

14 ► RASTROS DEL TIEMPO –2’31’’ Jesica Mª. Moreno García ( Spain - Espanha )

15 ► AI-CONSCIOUSNESS – 17’22’’ Sarah Crevillen Valentin-Gamazo ( Spain - Espanha )