“I am an experimental artist coaxing strength from the creative unconscious. My pieces are made using film, digital video, sound, performance, text and installation. Inspired in the magic of subliminal manipulation, I am preoccupied to a great extent with the single frame. I pursue emotive and semiconscious reactions to motion and light, and enjoy playing with texture, rhythm, gesture and semiotics. My work thrives on constant interdisciplinary collaboration and the ability for visual language to function on multiple levels...”

Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez is a Miami-based film/video artist working with various manifestations of projected imagery. Juxtaposing hand-crafted 16mm film with video, installation and performance, her collage works have been exhibited internationally in film festivals, museums, galleries, TV, outdoor projections and multimedia collaborations.

Rodriguez studied filmmaking with such visionary experimentalists as Barbara Hammer, Trinh T. minh-ha, Rob Nilsson and the late Warren Sonbert. After years of independent study and refining her craft, she received a B.A. in Film Production from San Francisco State University School of Creative Arts. She has received several fellowships, awards, commissions, prizes, grants and residencies in support of her experimental work from such organizations as Fundación Valparaíso in Spain, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Jentel Artists Residency Program, Visual Studies Workshop, Tigertail Productions, Miami Light Project, San Francisco Festival 2000, and the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Department, among others. Her work was awarded prizes at the Big Muddy and Black Maria Film Festivals, and has been screened in numerous international festivals and venues inlcuding the Images Festival in Toronto, the San Francisco Cinematheque, the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, the Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece, and the Festival du Cinema de Paris.

Originally a native of Cuba, Rodriguez has lived and travelled extensively in the United States, Latin America and Spain. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, where she co-directs a digital arts program for urban youth. Rodriguez has been a Visiting Faculty Artist in the MFA Program at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY and Guest Lecturer at the University of California at Davis and at Florida International University. She has served as a Media Arts Jury Panelist for the Rockefeller Foundations's National Video Resources, the Lousiana Division of the Arts and the North and South Carolina Art Councils. Her work is in several public and private collections including the Film Archive at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA.