Role: Co-Director, Environment Art, Animation, Real-Time Cinematography

D3C05 is a sci-fi love letter to Miami’s Art Deco architecture.

This animated dance film envisions a new phase of technological evolution - eliminating the separation of human, object, and nature. Simulated learning modules take on performative futuristic rituals to recreate endemic knowledge. Module D3C05 focuses on Miami Art Deco architecture and the complex history upon which it was built.

trailer

D3C05 is currently touring festivals. More screenings and full release of the film coming soon.

about the film

At the height of the Art Deco movement, Miami’s architecture was widely recognized for its technological innovations - these structures generated an international sense of excitement and optimistic futurism. To this day, Miami still has one of the highest concentrations of Art Deco in the world. 

D3C05 envisions Miami Art Deco architecture in a post-human latinx world. Re-interpreting a future where power structures have shifted and latinx is the dominant cultural paradigm. Latin dialects, slang, historical references and digital stutter combine into a speculative digital language of the future. The film takes the idea of optimistic futurism and reimagines the concept within a digital space, where the boundaries between human, nature, and object coalesce; a world where synesthetic communication and performative rituals reign.

Director Blaze Gonzalez and Choreographer Liony Garcia were both raised in Miami, by Cuban and Puerto Rican parents respectively, with the visual language of deco lining the sandy beaches of their childhoods. Their combined nostalgia alongside VFX artist and Co-Director, Hannah Gaengler, gave birth to the simulation module that is D3C05.

Thematic to Liony Garcia’s project Corporeal Decorum, D3C05 takes on the investigation of methods that unite the body with architecture details. The project's initial concept stemmed from the choreographer's research residency at the Wolfsonian. Where he was introduced to the pochoir compositions of Maurice Pillard-Vernuil through their exhibition: Deco Designs. The designer’s vibrant and complex patterns embraced modern technologies, ancient civilizations, and artistic movements of the period. All of which were entry points to conceptualizing D3C05 with artist Blaze Gonzalez. 

Blaze has since then taken on the directorship role of envisioning, producing and developing the project in a year-long effort along with Hannah Gaengler.