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Salvador Miranda

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Salvador Miranda is a Mexican-Canadian filmmaker, artist, and producer. His debut short film, This is my land... (19), premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). His film installation, Life Eternal (22), premiered at Kasseler Dokfest, received a nomination for the 2022 Golden Cube Prize, and won the 2024 Hertzog da Silva Award. His latest documentary short, Promised Land (23), also premiered at IFFR. Salvador is an alumnus of the TIFF Director's Lab, Kunstinstituut Parallel Curriculum program and holds an MFA in Lens-Based Media from the Piet Zwart Institute.

A Cactus, a Ladder and a Boot (2024) - A game of 'Heads Up' under the shadow of the Mexico–United States border wall. The traditional Mexican 'Lotería' cards take on a new meaning alongside the imposing barrier.
Promised Land (2023) - HD film with sound, colour, 18:34m. Made in collaboration with Gijs van der Meer. Promised Land follows a group of five American strangers who were asked to recreate historical moments from the Pilgrim Fathers story: their departure from Europe, their voyage on the Mayflower, and first Thanksgiving meal. Dressed in traditional costume, the pilgrims discuss what it means to re-enact the past in a time when it is being re-evaluated. Does the pilgrim mythology have any place in modern society? We let them interpret this troubled story for themselves, attempting to make meaning out of the past while reflecting on recent events, personal histories and persistent colonial legacies.
Life Eternal (2022) - 3-channel film installation, 23m. Life Eternal tells three intertwining stories about immortality. The first story is about Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon and his legendary search for the Fountain of Youth. The second tells us of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cancer cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. The final story takes up James Bedford, the first person to undergo cryogenic freezing in hope of future revival. Through Life Eternal I wanted to explore the desires and the emotional entanglements of these characters, while touching upon the complex historical themes that jump out so vividly from them - colonialism, exploitation, and techno-utopianism. This work is a poetic dialogue on the eternal conversation on time and our attitude toward it.
Dawn Chorus (2020) - Video essay on the extinction of the Kauai O'o bird, and its digital life in online media.
This is my land...(2019) - Installation view at Garage Rotterdam, 2022
This is my land… (2019) - This is my land (2019) 2-channel film, 7:50m This is my land… is an experimental 2-channel film examining the trial of a woman whose home is threatened by a new development project. The work explores the use of language and rhetoric, its deployment in support of incommensurable worldviews, as well as competing visions of utopia, progress and home.
An (a)historical excavation (2019) - Series of collages taking historical sites of conflict and tension, imagining their convergence across cultural geographies and time. These works imagine alternative historical possibilities that collapse 'otherization' through fictional archaeologies.
On Holiday (2018) - Two-channel film, 3:15 minutes Collaboration with Lotte de Jong On Holiday is a collection of online reviews of sex workers in the Netherlands. Customers can give ratings, comments and even feedback. Many of these make reference to sex workers going "on holiday" or "away for vacation", and consequently not available to customers. Perhaps a euphemism or a happy reprieve, we are left to imagine their holidays.
Aim Down Sights (2018) - HD film, 7:33 minutes To preview Aim Down Sights please contact info@salvadormiranda.com Aim Down Sights is a short film exploring terrorism in gaming culture. The work explores roleplaying, both as victim and as terrorist, the dedication to these online identities, and the ultimate blurring of realities. The aesthetics of terroristic images are endlessly recreated in virtual worlds, while the immersive gaming experience creates real subjective realities.

GRAW @ FilmDak

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Location: FilmDak

Language(s)

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Location: Garage

Off Screen @ Worm

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Location: Worm

Film presentation

International Film Festival Rotterdam

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Location: LantarenVenster

In Promised Land, five Americans contemplate the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Rotterdam four hundred years earlier. They left Delfshaven on the ship Mayflower at the time. Once they arrived in America, they were heavily dependent on the native population and ate the first Thanksgiving meal. But what is the role of the Pilgrims now and should these heroes of yesteryear still be honored?

Prospects

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Location: Van Nelle Fabriek
In association with: Mondriaan Fonds, Art Rotterdam

For the 10th time in a row, the Mondriaan Fund organized the Prospects exhibition on the site of the Van Nelle Factory during Art Rotterdam. The exhibition showed the work of 19 starting artists from 22 to 2022 May 88. In 2020, all artists received a financial contribution from the Mondriaan Fund to start their career.

https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/en/profiles/prospects/?_profielen_jaar=2022

For What It's Worth

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Location: Garage Rotterdam

Is it still possible to break with an economic system that is now deeply rooted in all facets of life? Despite protests and warnings, this capitalist system of 'desired' competition is leading to monopolies, growing inequality and exhaustion of both people and the planet.

https://catalogue.garagerotterdam.nl/en/catalogues/51/

Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

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Location: LantarenVenster

Screening of 'This is my country..."

https://www.affr.nl/programma/

Video Art & Experimental Film Event

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Location: SEA Foundation

With the growing urgency to recognize the global ecological crisis, spreading awareness of this issue is necessary. Only if we join forces can we address the global ecological crisis. How can we achieve this in a world where individualism is prominent? The films and video works shown at the event discuss the theme of the Commons and Commoning in a variety of ways to discuss possible paths to change. They vote from the need and desire to change social life and spark opinion.

https://www.seafoundation.eu/vaefe-walk-in-cinema-screening-event-short-films-experimental-video-first-edition/

TENT Cinema

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Location: online screening

Online screening of 'Dawn Chorus'

Love in the Time of Corona

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Location: IMPAKT

Online screening of 'Dawn Chorus'

https://impakt.nl/channel/curated/082-love-in-the-time-of-corona/

Artist Talk: What is Development

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Location: Dag van de Architectuur, Arcam

In conversation with Wouter Stroet, moderated by Anne Vera Veen (Arcam).

https://arcam.nl/events/online-film-programme-what-is-development/

IFFR (RTM Programme)

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Location: LantarenVenster

Film screening of 'This is my land..."

https://iffr.com/en/persons/salvador-miranda

Microfunding Dinner

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Location: Kunstinstituut Melly

The Microfund Dinner is a microfunding initiative that provides an alternative funding system for creative projects. Guests are asked to make a small contribution (€8 min. suggested) in exchange for dinner and a ballot. During the dinner, guests become judges: three select individuals will pitch their creative project during the dinner and all guests will vote for a project.

https://www.fkawdw.nl/en/our_program/events/microfunding_dinner

ResearchLabs

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Location: EYE Filmmuseum

Screening of 'Aim Down Sights'

Review of 'This is my land...' in Mister Motley

Location: Mister Motley
https://www.mistermotley.nl/kapitaal-en-de-kunst-b-v-for-what-its-worth-in-garage-rotterdam/
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