Juan Carlos Zaldívar (aka Violenta Flores)'s Reel

An interactive dance, video installation inspired by the real-life interdependence between an insect, a plant, and a human who fights to ensure the other's survival.

A young trans person returns to meet her mother while presenting female for the first time.

www.Zaldivar.info LOG LINE ALTERATIONS is a short comedy that follows J (an adolescent trans woman previously known as Jesus), as she sets out to reconnect with her amnesic mother for the first time as a woman.  SHORT SYNOPSIS J’s manic depressive mother, Mary Jane, had a heart attach when J told her that he wanted to be a woman. Now J is making a movie to sort things out. When Mary Jane awoke...

This installment of Shifting Nature at BURST 2011 Art Project in Miami FL For a full, 3D listening experience listen at the following location as you follow the walk described. You may use the map to guide you or you can use the video as a reference.

http://www.zaldivar.info/ShiftMovie Shift is a stop-motion animated film made of over 9,000 photos shot over a period of one year. It follows a character, who is born from a tree and stitches a female skin out of leaves until one day, a fierce dog steals her face.

A series of site-specific, binaural (3D audio) walks and visual experiences featuring music, natural phenomena (such as weather from other parts of the world and 'controllable lightning bolts') as well as exotic insects weaving a loose story/narrative. The goal of these "shifts" is to encourage participants to explore new ways to perceive their surroundings and to accept different ways to be. Subsequent installations will be mapped on a website and will begin to reveal--over time-- the inner lives of the two main characters of feature film.

A series of site-specific, binaural (3D audio) walks and visual experiences featuring music, natural phenomena (such as weather from other parts of the world and 'controllable lightning bolts') as well as exotic insects weaving a loose story/narrative. The goal of these "shifts" is to encourage participants to explore new ways to perceive their surroundings and to accept different ways to be. Subsequent installations will be mapped on a website and will begin to reveal--over time-- the inner lives of the two main characters of feature film.