Unfinished Visions: Silent Film & Sightless Radio

A program of expanded cinema and radio art exploring fragmentation, montage, and transmission across time.

Date: Sunday, July 26, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Deering Estate Theater
7220 SW 168th Street
Palmetto Bay, FL 33157
Tickets: Free of charge, RSVP on Eventbrite required.

The program features a multiscreen presentation of film materials associated with Sergei Eisenstein’s ¡Que Viva México!, reconfigured from surviving fragments and related documentary materials. Presented as a composite visual field, these elements form an evolving constellation of images shaped by historical displacement and reinterpretation.
The multiscreen realization of these materials, along with additional projection design and visual treatments across the series, is developed in collaboration with Deering Estate resident artist Freddy Jouwayed, whose work translates archival film into an immersive spatial environment responsive to the theater’s architecture and technical systems. The restoration and reconstruction of the ¡Que Viva México! materials were undertaken by film historian and archivist Bruce Posner, who worked extensively in Miami for many years. His work has been central to the preservation and renewed presentation of experimental and avant-garde cinema, enabling new ways of engaging Eisenstein’s unfinished project. Also included is If Everyone Waits by Gregory Whitehead, a radio art composition for voice, instruments, radio noise, and very low frequency transmissions (11:11). The work draws on text adapted from a historical 1942 leaflet, unfolding as a layered acoustic environment shaped by speech, signal, and interruption. Through shifts between continuity and rupture, the piece explores voice as both carrier of meaning and material presence.

Gustavo Matamoros is a Miami-based intermedia artist, composer, and curator working in experimental music, sound installation, and interdisciplinary performance. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he has been active in South Florida since 1979 and is the founding artistic director of the Subtropics Festival. His work explores listening as a spatial and perceptual practice through immersive and site-responsive environments. He is currently in residence at Florida International University’s i360 XR Theater and at Deering Estate Theater, supported by a Knight Arts Challenge award.

Freddy Jouwayed is a Miami-based multimedia artist and exhibition designer and a resident artist at Deering Estate. His practice spans projection environments, multimedia installation, and exhibition design. For this series, he develops the multiscreen realization of ¡Que Viva México! materials and contributes visual projection and spatial image design across the programs.

Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948) was a pioneering Soviet filmmaker and theorist whose work fundamentally shaped the language of cinema. Renowned for his development of montage as a compositional and expressive technique, his films—including Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible—redefined cinematic form through dynamic editing and visual structure. His unfinished project ¡Que Viva México! remains one of the most significant and influential works in the history of experimental and documentary cinema.

Bruce Posner is a film historian, archivist, and curator specializing in avant-garde and experimental cinema. He is widely recognized for his work in the preservation, restoration, and reintroduction of historically significant non-narrative film. Posner played a key role in the reconstruction of Sergei Eisenstein’s ¡Que Viva México! and lived in Miami for many years, contributing to the city’s experimental film culture.

Gregory Whitehead is an award-winning radio artist, audio artist, and text-sound poet whose work has been broadcast internationally on outlets including the BBC, Radio France, Deutschlandradio, ABC Australia, and NPR. A central figure in the resurgence of radio art since the 1980s, his practice explores voice, transmission, and the poetics of broadcast media. His work often navigates the tension between continuity and rupture, as well as the material instability of language and sound.

Deering Estate, located at 16701 SW 72 Ave. in Miami, is a 21st Century house museum, cultural and ecological field station, and a national landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, owned by the State of Florida and managed by Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department. Deering Estate is designated as one of seven Miami Dade County “Heritage Parks” which have a vital role in our community’s history, environment and in providing recreational and cultural experiences.

Cultural Arts Programming at the Deering Estate is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc. Programming in the Deering Estate theater is also possible thanks to The Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation.

For those who treasure the Deering Estate, who advocate for its preservation and wish to invest in its future, The Deering Estate Foundation provides opportunities for individuals and corporations alike to partake in membership, signature events, and one-of-a-kind experiences, all in service of providing vital funding and support to the Deering Estate. Through these efforts, the foundation fulfills its mission to uphold the legacy of Charles Deering's cherished 1920s-era property, to provide funding for the cultural, educational and recreational experiences it offers, as well as its significant scientific and archaeological endeavors to conserve its diverse flora, fauna and the eight native ecosystems that thrive on its 450 acres, and to ensure its longevity as a prized American heritage site. Established in 1989, The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc. is a community-based charitable 501(c) 3 Florida Corporation and the philanthropic partner of the Deering Estate.

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