Future Traditions

10/10/2025

FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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FRIDAY - Experimental Videos
6PM - DJ Ke Mala
7PM - Films
8PM - Talkback
9PM - DJ Ke Mala

SATURDAY - Performances
4PM - Doors - get there early if you want to participate in the opening ceremony
5:00 PM — Opening Ceremony - Lengua de Tigre
5:30 PM – Tambores del Pueblo x Drip Cuts
6:30 PM — Mario A. Ollincoyotl Ramírez & Julián Pujols Quall
7:30 PM — Soundmap Ensemble

Descriptions of all films and performances are on our website: futuretraditionsfest.com

10/09/2025

See you TOMORROW!!

10/09/2025

** Opening Ceremony - SATURDAY**
Lengua De Tigre (Austin/Colombia) - Ceremonial offering: We heal together
This short opening ceremony centers around a ceremonial corn altar for collective healing, activated by poetry, drums, and an ofrenda. The audience is invited to participate. Visuals and Ofrenda by Paola Ward and Beatriz Lopez. Poetry by Tane Ward, Victor Andres Cruz on tambor alegre.

10/08/2025

** FRIDAY WARM UP ** 6PM
DJ Ke Mala (Austin/Wichita Falls/Ithaca) welcomes us to the festival with a pre- and post-screening social hour at Friday’s experimental video showcase. DJ Ke Mala will be spinning blends of vintage salsa, cumbia, and more.
Come early, stay late. Maybe dance a little.

10/06/2025

El Abuelo by Dino Dinco (Tijuana)
"Shot on location in San Antonio, Texas, El Abuelo is an intimate portrait of local educator and poet, Joe Jiménez. Through the meditative process of ironing his clothes (a duty often identified as “women’s work”), we experience Joe in that familiar goal of finding the perfect crease. Of all domestic chores, ironing is the only one a “homeboy” is more than happy to master, as masterful ironing is the key to reaching an appearance of perfection. And to a homeboy, perfect creases work hand in hand with the power of attraction. Through voiceover, we hear Joe reading his poem, “El Abuelo,” and learn of the potency of ironing that’s used to capture the attention of his “first vato” – his first love of another man."
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Transmission
Directed by Chava Ramirez (San Benito)
This short asks the question “What if a machine or a.i. is able to recount memories that are not their own.”
It is part of an ongoing project the artist has been working on since 2019.

10/06/2025

Un Abrazo del Otro Lado
by: Trucha (Omar A. Casas Jr & Laura Daniela Martinez) (RGV)
A young Mexican woman who is feeling lost goes on an arduous journey across harsh terrain catching the attention of her ancestors who help guide her. "My vision for this film was to be as relevant as I could while still being able to capture the creativity of how my story is told. With recent events hitting the Mexican/Latino community hard in the LA protests to the No kings protest here in the valley. I wanted to make a film about the journey and the spiritual aspects of what our community is facing. We show our protagonist on a journey, where is she going, where is she etc. My intention is to leave that narrative open to the viewers. I also wanted to use as much symbolism as I could to help shape the story. Including filming at one of our crews old family cemeteries. Using La Lomita as a visual sense of hope and guidance which is also a huge hotspot for people crossing over from Mexico. To them that is hope.
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Flowers and Friendship
by: ENTRE & Friends (RGV)
A 35mm direct animated film made by participants at Camp La Afinidad in March 2025. La Afinidad is a youth art and forest therapy camp where participants cultivate deep connection to nature, themselves and others through relational learning opportunities including: Exploring the Japanese practice of Shinrin- Yoku, multi-media art and stewardship. ENTRE was invited to lead a workshop for participants to collectively make a camera-less film using native plants found at Quinta Mazatlan in McAllen, TX. La Afinidad was designed and facilitated by Taylor Zavala, Quinta Mazatlan's Environmental Education Supervisor, and the workshop was facilitated by C. Díaz, filmmaker and co-founder of ENTRE Film Center. The soundscape was recorded over the course of the camp, and includes participants' commentary and the sounds of Quinta's nature refuge.

10/04/2025

💥 Collaboration: Tambores del Pueblo (Austin/PR) & El Drip Cuts (Austin/El Paso) 💥

*Tambores Del Pueblo is a community music ensemble that focuses on wellness through music and dance. The facilitators share education and instruction of Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba to the community for wellness, cultural diversity, and preservation of history and oral traditions.

* El Drip Cuts is an Austin-based experimental video artist and track selector. Their work incorporates digital projections and recorded video media using technicolor digital waveforms, simultaneously embodying natural forms and the abstract.

10/04/2025

🚨Premiere alert!
“Y Si” is an original collaboration by Huachichil-Chichimeca performance artist Mario A. Ollincoyotl Ramírez (Dallas) and Dominican jazz/experimental musician Julián Pujols Quall (Chicago). A living project between movement, music, and projected media, observing diasporic traditions that refract off of shared histories of displacement as they saturate into a broad spectrum of joy, creativity, and futurity. The piece unfolds through synchronicity, rupture, and transformation. ‘Y Si’ is an offering that invites audiences to relate with one another’s stories, reminding us that we are closer than we think.

**Pay-what-you-wish Festival Passes at the link in bio**

10/04/2025

Premiere alert!
“Y Si” is an original collaboration by Huachichil-Chichimeca performance artist Mario A. Ollincoyotl Ramírez (Dallas) and Dominican jazz/experimental musician Julián Pujols Quall (Chicago). A living project between movement, music, and projected media, observing diasporic traditions that refract off of shared histories of displacement as they saturate into a broad spectrum of joy, creativity, and futurity. The piece unfolds through synchronicity, rupture, and transformation. ‘Y Si’ is an offering that invites audiences to relate with one another’s stories, reminding us that we are closer than we think.

**Pay-what-you-wish Festival Passes still available!**
https://events.humanitix.com/future-traditions-fest-2025

10/02/2025

Soundmap Ensemble
Traversing boundaries of musical practices, SoundMap Ensemble presents a “carte blanche” of Brazilian composer Januibe Tejera, where the ensemble explores the terrain of music and technology. Imagined for Future Traditions, the program includes works exploring musical theater, instrumental music, video, electronics sound, deep listening. Here, gestures, space, and video turn into musical practices. and shows how musicians are continuously traversing all borders, in a way to transform imagination into reality.

**Pay-what-you-wish Festival Passes at the link in bio**

10/01/2025

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10/01/2025

Slide 1: cuerpos de papel by Ximena Cuevas
Cuerpos de Papel is a dense visual meditation on sexuality, loss, jealousy and intimacy. It uses rich sensual images to weave a digital portrait of an intimate, erotic, and emotional past. As the images transform, we are left with a slippery sense of intangibility and delicacy.
Slide2: Alcohólico by Lechita Kandy
“‘Alcohólico’ was born from my own experience with alcoholism and the physical and emotional collapse that came with it. I wanted to tell this story not as a clean recovery narrative, but as it truly felt—chaotic, grotesque, and terrifying. By using claymation-inspired visuals and body horror, I aimed to capture the distorted reality of withdrawal, where the body becomes unrecognizable and the world itself feels hostile. This film is not just about destruction—it’s about survival. Beneath the horror, it is a testament to resilience, to facing the darkest corners of the self, and to the possibility of finding a way back.”



Slide3:
Whirlpools by Sewa Choki
Two fated lovers, molded from Texas soil. Oh how we rip each other to shreds. Consensual insanity, to peace and unity of the hearts. No matter where I go you’re always all around me.
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