Hojas de Maiz (2002)

Hojas de Maíz was made at the request of Cincinnati composer and instrumentbuilder Anthony Luensman The film was originally envisioned to be part of Tonys installation Irato in which each of his twentyplus pieces on exhibit in a civic art center responded to viewers pressing of a button An exhibit of doorbells imaginatively defined One of Tonys stocksintrade is the use of discarded upright piano innards as electrified harps my film contribution was to be projected amidst arrays of vibrating piano strings as art patrons took an elevator from the ground floor to a performing arts center While this eventually proved infeasible due to ambient light conditions in the building it did inspire the look and basic vocabulary of the film