Luis Arnías, Bisagras, 2024 (still). 16mm, black and white, sound; 16 min. Courtesy the artist
Luis Arnías Studio Visit
May 17, 2025
Members are invited to join us for a visit to the Hyde Park studio of Luis Arnías, artist and experimental filmmaker.
Take a tour of the studio and learn more about the artist behind the work.
Much of Luis Arnías’s work explores the condition of diaspora in relation to neighborhood, landscape, and the social division of space. His recent film Bisagras (2024), for instance, examines what he calls “the enduring here and elsewhere of Black consciousness.” Filmed between Dakar, Senegal, and Bahia, Brazil, the film moves through across the Black Atlantic while querying the racial logic of celluloid and photographic emulsion themselves. The artist’s interest in the possibilities of 16mm film is complemented by a studio practice spanning drawing and sculpture.
Arnías’s films have recently been screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Netherlands; the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; and Ambulante Film Festival, Mexico City. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Menil Collection, Houston; Klosterruine, Berlin; and Mishkin Gallery, New York. His solo exhibition, Slow Loops, will open at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for Arts on April 26, 2025, after having previously been on view at Wagner Foundation, Cambridge.
Luis Arnías (born in Caracas, Venezuela) is a filmmaker and artist who currently lives and works in Boston, MA. In 2009, he graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and in 2020 he received his Masters in Film/Video from Milton Avery Graduate School at Bard College. His films have screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight, TIFF, Punto de Vista, New York Film Festival, Berlin Critics’ Week (Woche Der Kritik) and BlackStar Film Festival. He was a fellow at the FSC at Harvard University, the recipient of the Herb Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship 2022 and most recently a 2023 Boston Artadia Awardee.
This event is open to members of the List Center, please contact supportlist [at] mit.edu (supportlist[at]mit[dot]edu) if you are interested in learning more.