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Salvador Miranda

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Salvador Miranda (b. 1987) is a Mexican-Canadian artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam. His work explores grand narratives and the images of our visual culture that (re)produce them. His works have been shown in IFFR (Rotterdam), Ruhrtriennale (Bochum) EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), TENT (Rotterdam) Haiton Art Center (Taipei), among others. Salvador holds a Master’s in Lens-Based Media from the Piet Zwart Institute in the Netherlands (cum laude).

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 persisting 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 archeologies.
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.

International Film Festival Rotterdam

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Locatie: LantarenVenster

In Promised Land overpeinzen vijf Amerikanen het vertrek van de Pilgrim Fathers uit Rotterdam, vierhonderd jaar eerder. Zij vertrokken destijds op het schip Mayflower vanuit Delfshaven. Eenmaal in Amerika aangekomen waren ze sterk afhankelijk van de oorspronkelijke bevolking en nuttigden ze de eerste Thanksgiving-maaltijd. Maar wat is de rol van de Pilgrims nu en moeten deze helden van weleer nog wel geëerd worden?

Prospects

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Locatie: Van Nelle Fabriek
In samenwerking met: Mondriaan Fonds, Art Rotterdam

Voor de 10e keer op rij organiseerde het Mondriaan Fonds tijdens Art Rotterdam de tentoonstelling Prospects op het terrein van de Van Nelle Fabriek. De tentoonstelling liet van 19 t/m 22 mei 2022 het werk zien van 88 startende kunstenaars. Alle kunstenaars ontvingen in 2020 een financiële bijdrage van het Mondriaan Fonds om een start te maken met hun carrière.

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

For What It's Worth

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Locatie: Garage Rotterdam

Is het nog mogelijk om te breken met een economisch systeem dat zich inmiddels diep heeft geworteld in alle facetten van het leven? Ondanks protesten en waarschuwingen leidt dit kapitalistisch systeem van ‘gewenste’ concurrentie tot monopolies, groeiende ongelijkheid en uitputting van zowel de mens als de planeet.

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

Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

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Locatie: LantarenVenster

Screening of 'This is my land..."

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

Video Art & Experimental Film Event

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Locatie: SEA Foundation

With the growing urgency to recognize the global ecological crisis, spreading awareness on 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 stem 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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Locatie: online screening

Online screening of 'Dawn Chorus'

Love in the Time of Corona

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Locatie: 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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Locatie: 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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Locatie: LantarenVenster

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

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

Microfunding Dinner

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Locatie: 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 jurors: 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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Locatie: EYE Filmmuseum

Screening of 'Aim Down Sights'

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

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