The experimental video is about a man named "Juan", going about his day attempting to learn and practice English. It is a narrative reflecting nuances of a border city with glimpses of visually inebriated abstraction combined with words lost in translation. It is a reflection that many citizens have had to face, struggle with and have adapted to.

Gil Rocha is a South Texas artist, former educator, and curator born in Laredo, TX. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2006), a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at San Antonio (1999), and is certified as an all-level Texas Educator from Texas A&M International University (2002).For the past 25 years, Rocha’s professional artistic career has led him to engage in a variety of programs taking on roles that span from facilitating workshops for community based projects, participating on panels, and working on public artworks and murals, in collaboration with galleries and museums on the national and international level. His
artwork expands across painting, collage, sculpture, assemblage, installation, and writing. He focuses on issues about the U.S./Mexico border and takes on a survivalist approach known as “Rasquache.”

Tres Tekuanis is a Laredo, Texas, based artist who spent their formative years in the center of Mexico. Their work utilizes digital and analog mediums including light, audio, video, and other technologies to document the human experience and the value of artistic expression independent of skill level. At the International Miraaa Media Fest in 2024, Tres Tekuanis and Gil Rocha received the “Best Collaboration Award” for their experimental short “Ingles sin Fronteras”

In response to the spike in COVID-19 cases across the country in Spring 2021, ENTRE gave out direct animation kits to people across the RGV. The kit included: 30 seconds of clear 16mm film, a 16mm Cheat Sheet, ENTRE’s Oblique Strategies, and some C-47s. A 13 minute tutorial video accompanied the kit that covers different techniques, tips and tricks for making the film. Participants crafted their films using tools and materials found at home. This film premiered to the RGV community on Saturday December 3, 2022 with a live score performed by five local musicians.

Films by: Cielo Zuniga, Gavi Nati, Evy Rendon, Valeria Baltazar, Ram Jam, Keaton McKeever & Michael Flanagan, Laura Cavazos, Sadie Hernandez, Tapiadaily, Sam99, Daniela Bochas, America Garcia, Alma Montano, Arianna Cantu, Abigail Vela, Dominique Flores & Alejandra Martinez.

Live score composed and performed by: Carmen Castillo, Kolade Adjibi, Danny Villarreal, Brendon Sandoval & Jake Solis.

bisonte is a short experimental video poem that explores cultural heritage, bodies, land, desire, religion/spirituality, and queer food erotics.

Luna Vela is a multidisciplinary artist based in Austin, with roots in North Mexico and the RGV. Her work revolves around her native foodways, and explores the intersections of food, culture, art, and desire.

“Lost Bois” is a raw technicolor explosion of angst, laughter, and the unshakeable bond of trans brotherhood. Samp, Gian, and Moose all know that a boi’s first testosterone shot is also a right of passage into a world grappled with loneliness and a relentless search for belonging. Isolation hangs heavy, only pierced by the rush of poppers and the reality-bending trips of shrooms, the frantic energy of punk bands, and most importantly each other.

Through their shared experiences, these lost bois have come to know that Grindr's a wasteland of empty promises but kinship can offer its moments of relief in the concrete jungle that is New York City. This ain't some feel-good coming-of-age flick. This is a hedonistic and gritty exploration into the lives of three rebellious trans bois. Buckle up, embrace chaos.

Devyn Galindo (they/them) is a two spirit, trans-masc, Mēxihkah transdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Tongva Tierra “Los Angeles”. Primary disciplines include filmmaking, photography, installation and sculpture. Devyn’s body of work celebrates Queer, Trans, BIPOC subcultures and stories.

Merging documentary, conceptual, and archival styles, I often look to my community for my inspiration. My work explores identity, challenges patriarchy, and dances between the physical and spiritual realms of gender expansion through Mexica spirituality. The liberation of queer and trans people of color and our interconnectivity with other movements globally is central to my work. They approach their work by forming meaningful connections with their collaborators, with curiosity and deep respect. They focus on stories that are often untold, and from subcultures that are historically underrepresented such as the trans, Latine, two-spirit, Mexica, and Xicanx perspectives.

ALTARES is an audiovisual shrine composed of small temples that contain images of ancient deities. With the earth always present, Altares connects with primitive iconography and with the deep roots of the symbolic in the collective unconscious. Death appears among the figures with an agitated pulse. History become geology as well as geology becoming a trance.

Music by Lluvia de Palos.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Tehuacán) is a Mexican film collective founded in 2012 to dismantle the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology. The collective is inspired by the historical avant-gardes, and their commitment to using both form and content against alienating realities. Their methods combine digital and analog mediums, interventions on archival materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests, and documentary poetry. Their radical experimentations on documentary and cinematographic devices produce images, both visual and auditory that are political possibilities in their own right.

On a late January afternoon, two friends create simultaneous moving image portraits of one another and the neighborhood they call home. Shot on 16mm and 8mm film. Original score by C. Díaz and Andres Sanchez.

C. Díaz (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and radical archivist from the Rio Grande Valley and a co-founder of ENTRE. Their work explores the relationship between cerebral landscapes and the natural environment through the weaving of experimental cinema, social practice, and the reimagining of archives.

Andres Sanchez (he/him) is an artist from the Rio Grande Valley and a co-founder of ENTRE. Since 2009, he has done everything from music writing to graphic design to playing in bands, booking shows, and even running a music podcast.

Ripples delves into the intricate dynamics of family connections and celebrates their diverse expressions. The film illustrates how, despite the unique nature of family relationships and the vastly different lives led by individuals within the same household, common features are carried across generations, leaving intergenerational traces. This project explores themes of home, identity, and intergenerational bonds. Using the cyanotype printing technique, I transformed video clips of my family into individual frames, which I reworked, collaged, and wove together to create amalgamations of our faces.

Cielo Zuñiga is a 23-year-old self-taught artist based in Edinburg, Texas, in the upper Rio Grande Valley. As a mixed-media textile artist, Cielo delves into their relationship with grief, love, impermanence, and identity. They use fibers to create tangible representations of these concepts, setting an intimate atmosphere for their work. Cielo’s recent film, Amor Interminable, is currently being shown at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts alongside the textile frames featured in the short film. The film has also been screened at the Miraaa Media Fest in Harlingen, Texas, and was featured in a month-long exhibition at the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen, Texas. They recently completed their residency at Cultivarte Laredo, following their first residency at the Flower Shop Art Residency in March 2024. Cielo plans to continue blurring the lines between film and collage, pushing the boundaries of storytelling in their art.