Robin Mendoza

 

Movies

 

Attraction

2019


Attract mode for Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter espied through a bedroom window at night.

Made for Games for Windows, an exhibition of video art incorporating video game footage curated by Nilson Carroll and installed from October 4 to November 17 2019 in the window of The Liquor Store in Rochester, NY.

 

Waiting for Tonight

2018


Twelve-bar blues about preparing for a hot date on a humid day.

Music is "Texas Flood" by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

 

Quiet Night Thoughts

2018


Li Bai's immortal proto-Imagist poem translated into video game icons (bed, frost, moon, home) hurtling toward the headlights from The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

 

PTV Bumper

2018


Bumper animation for SUNY Purchase's student-run TV station.

 

Faraday

2018


Imageboard thread-like animated slideshow teasing out the paranoid aesthetics of the Faraday cage.

Music is "FX" by Black Sabbath.

 

Rabbi

2016


Footage from Genericon 2016 soundtracked to Bob Dylan's 1991 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech, which paraphrased German Orthodox Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch.

 

Survival Stories

2016


Two harrowing accounts of grit, resolve, and treachery from my day trading, drone flying high school chum Sam after his return to civilization.