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2026
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there and back again
2026 00:01:40 Single channel video animation with sound Experimental video. Traversing through different landscapes at the sametime. The wind blows in your face wiping the moisture from your eyes, everything starts to look the same. Where are you going and why? Inspired by J.R.R Tolkien's "The Hobbit." WARNING: strobing lights |
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Patojas en Foto
2026 00:06:06 Single channel video animation Patojas en Foto is a video performance and animation work exploring presentation through counting using photos and patterns. Hands with mitts present photos of my mother and myself, growing up in two different countries, affected by unmentioned life changes. Photos are presented as playing cards, counted, and passed out, recalling various forms of card play. |
Still from ©2026Patojas en Foto
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Currently being screened at various locations. Contact for viewing.
2025
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Tejidos y Textiles
2-Channel Video Animation installation on underside of Jensen Bridge, Buffalo Bayou 00:09:00 Tejidos y Textiles explores the connections of pattern and camouflage in woven patterns and physical movement. Birds and critters emerge from interwoven surfaces to explore the environment of their home, Buffalo Bayou. Estrada combines childhood memories and dreams about seeing animals at night and visually connecting the patterns seen in Guatemalan fabrics seen at her house growing up in Houston, Texas. Projected on three surfaces of the Jensen bridge in Second Ward in the East End, this combination of animation and video dreams about weavings, animals interacting with their home, and curiosity about our shared environment. Currently being screened at various locations. Contact for viewing.
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Maximón
2025 Single channgel digital animation 00:05:12 A projected or on-screen experimental animation that uses layered footage of led lights, footage of cooking black beans, alcohol, and animated bouncing balls. An invocation, a video animation in reverence to Maximón, otherwise known as San Simon. WARNING: strobing light Contact for viewing.
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Still from ©2025Maximon
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2024
Currently being screened at various locations. Contact for viewing.
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©2024ixchel/abuelita
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Woven Wick
2024 Video animation with sound, variable dimensions, duration 30 seconds Projected in a corner about 4x4x4 feet in dimension Thinking about Maya Deren's, "Meshes of the Afternoon" as a woven fruit bag. Contact for viewing. |
Woven Wick
2023
Video animation with sound, variable dimensions, duration 30 seconds
Projected in a corner about 4x4x4 feet in dimension
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The Magic Hat
2024 Video installation, variable dimensions, 00:00:30 looping Animation, acrylic screens with rear projection foil, metal, blackout fabric, projector “The Magic Hat,” is a video installation that is influenced by archetypal symbols and legends. Initially, I wanted to create a “Pepper’s Ghost”: a 19th-century theatrical technique that creates an illusion of a ghost through a 45-degree reflection. Pepper’s Ghosts were used by magicians during this period and continue to be used today in music concerts and theatrical productions. However, in my installation, there is no hidden room or solid figure. Everything is projected as light and distorted. In the animation, a cowboy hat turns into different objects associated with masculinity and production. Depending on where you stand in relation to the screens, you might see a solid object. But if you were to walk close to that area, you would discover there is nothing there. The title references Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” which addresses Enlightenment themes. I created a visual work where viewers see reflections and mirroring. Their direct view of what is solid or directly projected is mitigated. |
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2017
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R.E.V.O.L.T,
Woodbury University, Burbank, CA Workshop performance Video documentation An installation and printmaking performance/workshop focused on engaging viewers in conversation with a simple form of printmaking. Participants were asked to help with creating R.E.V.O.L.T banners. Participants were also invited to take artwork they made home. Performance took place at Nan Rae Gallery at Woodbury University January 21, 2017 and February 22nd, 2017. Installation photos are here |
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Video Shot by Michiko Yao
2016
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Travel Tag 2016 00:03:56 Animation Hand painted watercolor paintings. Animated tourist paintings transition to trauma paintings of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. |
2015
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Mountain Through A Peephole
2015 00:05:40 Digital animation collaged with video Living by the Hollywood hills in Los Angeles, California, but I grew up in Houston and miss its expansive sky. Mountains were just an idea while living in Houston, but are a constant reality for me now. The similarities between Los Angeles and Houston are many such as having diverse cultures, urban sprawl, and concerns about the impact of natural forces on its city. Landscape is a major difference. Thinking about how natural disasters impact Houston and Los Angeles’s landscape, Mountain Through a Peephole contrasts the two cities’ geography and their needs for preparedness as a viewer experience. Mountain Through a Peephole is a video installation that inverts the public spectacle of the window display and the voyeurism of a peephole. Often times, viewers encounter disaster events through media; this installation affirms that experience, but takes it for what it actually is – a voyeuristic experience. Presenting the landscape in various states of disaster, a video projection inside the window display illustrates these events as cyclical. On the windows are two peepholes creating a type of camera obscura with hindered views. Looking to the growth of natural disasters in both Houston and Los Angeles, this installation asks, “Are you ready?” Reminding everyone that the big one is still coming. |
Mountain Through A Peephole from D.S. Estrada on Vimeo. |
2010
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Chandelier Mosque
2010 timecode Single channel video Chandelier Mosque is a project that combines video documentation of a mosque with a spatial installation featuring reflective surfaces and the text of our first amendment. Reflecting on the recent verbal/physical attacks on the American Muslim population, in this installation Estrada presents documentation of the interior of a mosque filmed on the day of Eid, the end of Ramadan, in 2009. This year, Eid fell on 9/11/2010. A work in contemplation for a year, following the lunar year, Estrada brings this video footage together with the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution to comment on our present moment. In the video documentation, the camera spins around the interior décor of the construction, then starts to slowly follow the figures of Muslim youth taking pictures in the mosque. By situating the video and text in an environment of reflective mylar surfaces, Estrada calls attention to the viewer’s own perception in contrast to the filmed images. She creates a distorted mirror, reflecting the viewer in the close, narrow environment of the gallery space. |
Chandelier Mosque (2010), video and text installation at Dan Graham space, Los Angeles
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2009
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When Temples Collide
(2009-current) Single Channel Animation A concept animated mockumentary about Frank Lloyd Wright's influences. excerpt 00:00:15 |
©2009-currentWhenTemplesCollide
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2008
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L.A. Killed My Truck
2008 2- channel video installation 00:08:00 A documentary about the trials and tribulations of a woman’s beloved vehicle breaking down in various locations around Los Angeles. In the end it gets stolen. |
©2008L.A.KilledMyTruck
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©2008 Landscape Architect ( with Joy Harris)
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2007
Cuts
2007 00:00:14 secs Single Channel Video A digital flip book. Appedeum to Record Cut |
©2007Cuts
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Record Cut
2007 Single channel video 00:7:35 A mockumentary about an artist’s relationship with her drawing. excerpt 00:00:42 |
©2007RecordCut
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Letter To Me
2007 Single Channel Video 00:10:00. A Guatemalan Woman recounts her experiences living in the U.S. during the Feminist revolution. In contrast, her daughter makes statements growing up during that time while she speaks. excerpt 00:00:50 |
©2007LetterToMe
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Teetortot
2007 Single channel Video 00:00:37 Waking up from a California dream. |
©2007Teetortot
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2006
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Ways of Making Love in U.S
2006 single channel video 00:03:20. A looping video that presents the viewer with a Latin American woman reciting dishes to her blonde lovers. All the dishes recited contain a type of chile from a specific geographic region, making a global verbal map. excerpt 00:00:23 |
©2006WaysOfMakingLoveInUS
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