Fisura is a festival dedicated to independent audiovisual production and dissemination, conceived as a space of freedom, creativity and innovation.
From August 22 to September 19, Mexico City will host the fifth edition of FISURA, one of the most outstanding experimental film festivals in Latin America. In addition, it will have special functions in Durango, Oaxaca and Acapulco.
With a bold and visionary program, the festival will showcase a careful selection of national and international works that challenge traditional narratives and broaden the sensory horizons of image and sound. This year, Fisura reinforces its interdisciplinary essence with performances, concerts, workshops and talks, consolidating itself as a space that transgresses the limits of audiovisual art.
Among the most relevant retrospectives are Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars, a posthumous tribute to Japanese filmmaker and artist Tomonari Nishikawa, a key figure in underground cinema in recent years. In addition, it will be screened The Echo of Silence, by South Korean artist Jangwook Lee, with short films made in 16 mm between 1998 and 2024. Both sections were curated by Estefanía Díaz and Carlos Cruz.
Arte Abierto joins, as the venue and co-producer of the audiovisual concerts and academic activities of FISURA, the international experimental film and video festival that celebrates five years of audiovisual radicality this 2025 with an ambitious, interdisciplinary and decentralized edition.
In this co-production with Arte Abierto, FISURA presents audiovisual concerts by:
• Hiroshi Watanabe A.K.A Kaito (Japan)
• Maxime Corbeil-Perron A.K.A Datum Cut (Canada)
• José Orozco + Valeria Vicente (Mexico)
• Jael Jacobo + Ezequiel Guido (Mexico)
Arte Abierto houses a practical workshop given by Steven McInerney A.K.A Merkaba Macabre (Australia) where techniques of optical manipulation, analog projection and the creation of immersive environments through light and sound are explored, aimed at visual and sound artists and audiences interested in experimental cinema. In addition, two nights to experience the power of expanded cinema and live sound art with four exceptional acts that blur the boundaries between music, video and performance, artists Hiroshi Watanabe A.K.A Kaito (Japan), José Orozco + Valeria Vicente (Mexico), Maxime Corbeil-Perron (Canada) and Jael Jacobo + Ezequiel Guido (Mexico).
As a space dedicated to promoting contemporary art in accessible and participatory formats, Arte Abierto reinforces its commitment to experimental culture by presenting a series of sensory experiences that expand the boundaries of cinema, sound and technology.
London-based artist who combines 16mm film, digital media and sound expertise to create expanded forms of cinema, live audiovisual performances and installations. His work investigates emerging phenomena through media systems that vary over time, using them as tools for exploration. His cinematographic work is built from opposing energies, in a constant meditation between the sacred and the profane.
His live presentations use multichannel projections and real-time feedback systems, under a structuralist methodology that values error and reappropriation. From these elements, speculative narratives emerge that tend to blur the boundaries between science and fiction. McInerney is the founder of Psyché Tropes, an interdisciplinary platform dedicated to research and publication in media archeology that also produces a monthly program on Resonance 104.4FM.
A 20-year career as a guitarist with influences from different genres. In 2012, he decided to jump into the field of sound experimentation and improvisation, setting live cinema to music.
Ezequiel Guido's sound work is based on recording fragments from guitar, drums, voice, flute, to electronics and the use of field recordings.
ワタナベヒロシ also known as KAITO, is a Japanese composer, DJ and producer famous for his synthesized, melancholic and emotional sound. His music merges dance rhythms with environmental atmospheres, conquering global audiences. He studied musical synthesis at Berklee College of Music after graduating from Tokyo College of Music High School. Like KAITO, he has released eight albums with the German label KOMPAKT, including Everlasting and Special Life. He has composed for film, anime, advertising and fashion, and has collaborated with the WDR Orchestra. He was the first Japanese to release on Transmat Records with Multiverse (2016). Her projects include pieces for swimmer Yukiko Inui, the Fukuroda Falls light show and the Women's Nordic Ski Jumping World Cup. In recent years, it launched Collection at InFiné Music, delving into immersive narratives through electronic music.
Architect and audiovisual director, she bases her work on memory and ancient art, using animation, video mapping, expanded cinema, analog and experimental cinema as a form of expression; in addition to the intervention of space and the manipulation of light.
IG @jael_jacobo
He works with sound from multiple disciplines, including sound installation, sound design, composition, production and post-production, as well as experimental luthery. His work focuses on the exploration of sound with a particular focus on its physical properties and its relationship with acoustics and psychoacoustics. To do this, he experiments with alternative tunings, a careful selection of timbres and the spectral content of both acoustic and electronic instruments, many of which he designs and builds himself. This deep sound research has led him to work in various media and formats, such as sound installations and multichannel works.
He has been a fellow of the Young Creators program of PECDA Jalisco (2021 and 2024) and the Young Creators program of FONCA (2023). His recordings have been released by renowned record labels such as Cassauna/Important Records (USA), Hol Records (Mexico), Constellation Tatsu (USA) and Dablé Records (USA). His work has been presented in Mexico, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, New Zealand and Denmark.
José is originally from Chapala, Jalisco, and currently lives in Mexico City.
She is a Mexican audiovisual artist whose work encompasses video art, experimental cinema, Live cinema and video clip. Her practice is characterized by the hybrid use of analog and digital technologies, live improvisation and the exploration of liminal narratives where reality, memory and fiction converge. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals such as MUTEK, the Cervantino International Festival, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Hallucinea Film Festival (France), FUSE (Croatia), and the Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, among others. She is the co-founder of VIDEÓNICA, a network dedicated to Latin American audiovisual experimentation.
IG @valeriavlo
Datum Cut is the stage name of artist Maxime Corbeil-Perron, based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. His practice spans a variety of media: audiovisual performance, experimental film, electroacoustic composition, improvisation, sound art, and installation. Through a media archaeology approach, his current works seek to establish relationships between obsolete media and contemporary technologies in search of new aesthetic possibilities.As a composer, his work received an honorable mention in Digital Music and Sound Art at the Prix Ars Electronica (Austria, 2021).
As a director, he received the award for Best Experimental Animation at the Ann Arbor Film Festival (2021) and an honorable mention at the Vienna Shorts (Austria, 2024).His work has been presented at hundreds of international events such as LEV (ES), INTONAL (SE), Mutek (CA, ES), Dresden Filmfest (DE), VIDEOEX (CH), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (CA), and Set Fest (IR).
His work has been exhibited at venues such as Currents New Media (USA), Intermediale (PL), LABoral (ES), and FIMAV (CA).He was an artist-in-residence at EMS Stockholm (Sweden, 2018), Signal Culture (USA, 2017, 2019), Société des Arts Technologiques (Canada, 2019), Vidéographe (Canada, 2021), VIDEOFORMES (France, 2023), Recto-Verso (Canada, 2023), and WERKTANK (Belgium, 2023, 2024).
Arte Abierto inicia su programa de mediación y comunicación educativa 2022 con una conversación entre la investigadora y escritora Irmgard Emmelhainz y Sebastien Noel de Troika, tomando la exposición No Sound of Water como punto de partida. Abordarán los temas presentes en este proyecto, como el Antropoceno, y harán diferentes lecturas y cuestionamientos (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).
Irmgard Emmelhainz transmitirá en vivo desde No Sound of Water en Arte Abierto.
