Experimental Video & Hybrid AI-Mediated Post-Video
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La Perdilla (The Nightmare)
THEME
La Perdilla is a short experimental video exploring the psychological landscape of betrayal, abandonment, and grief. Created during the development of 860 Days at Acheron, an ongoing body of work examining the aftermath of a marriage disrupted by infidelity, the video reflects the sensation of becoming trapped within a reality that no longer makes sense.
The imagery was generated using the artist statement for 860 Days at Acheron as source material, transforming language into a sequence of shifting black-and-white visions. Figures emerge and disappear. Spaces dissolve and reform. Time loops, fragments, and collapses. The result is neither narrative nor documentation, but an emotional portrait of disorientation.
The title, La Perdilla ("the lost one"), refers to the experience of losing one's bearings after profound rupture. The work inhabits the space between memory, dream, and nightmare, where grief distorts perception and familiar worlds become strange. Through repetition, transformation, and instability, the video evokes the feeling of living inside a nightmare from which there appears to be no awakening.
PROCESS
The video was created through a text-to-image workflow using the artist statement for 860 Days at Acheron as the primary prompt, along with visual parameters referencing black-and-white Pinholga photography. Hundreds of generated images were curated and assembled into a stop-motion sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro.
The animation was subsequently transferred to CapCut for post-production, including tonal adjustments, timing refinements, visual effects, and synchronization with an edited audio track assembled from approved music sources. The final work was exported as a digital MP4 video.
The Ephemeral Nature of Memory
THEME:
The Ephemeral Nature of Memory examines the distance between what was experienced and what is remembered. As time passes, memories lose their certainty. Details disappear, narratives shift, and fragments detach from their original context, becoming something both familiar and strange.
The video's continually transforming imagery mirrors this process of erosion and reconstruction. Images surface briefly before dissolving into others, echoing the way recollections emerge unexpectedly, overlap, and fade. What remains is not a document of the past but an emotional trace of it.
Neither entirely real nor entirely imagined, The Ephemeral Nature of Memory inhabits the liminal territory between memory and forgetting, exploring how time reshapes our understanding of what has been.
PROCESS:
The Ephemeral Nature of Memory began with a single word: "ephemeral." Given to me by another artist during a creative workshop, the word became the starting point for an exploration of impermanence, disappearance, and the instability of recollection.
Using the word, its dictionary definition, and related terms as prompts, I generated a body of black-and-white imagery that was subsequently organized, layered, and sequenced within a video timeline. The structure of the video was developed through a process of repetition and compression, with images becoming progressively shorter in duration as the work unfolds.
The audio track was created from collected sounds and fragments of overheard conversations that were layered and edited using a similar methodology. Through accelerating cuts, interruptions, and visual fragmentation, the finished video attempts to mirror the way memories surface, overlap, distort, and ultimately fade.