writingWriting as a cross-disciplinary practice where narratives meet to form living, poetic structures. It drafts further work, including fiction and non-fiction —building an architecture of futures still to come.
Filmmaking New York Spin I You Are Mythical I Visual Theater AZ The Monster Learns Words I Flying Fish Over Mexico I Poetry The First Universe trilogy I The Book of B.
“In ‘AZ The Monster Learns Words’ a girl teaches a voiceless creature the alphabet of a fractured world. ‘Flying Fish Over Mexico’ reimagines the genesis of continents and cultures in a mythical pre-flag Mexico. ‘The First Universe’ trilogy has been described as a sci-fi epic and philosophical poem. ‘The Book of B’ invites figures like Einstein, Spiderman, and Frida Kahlo into a surrealist multiverse.”
Flying Fish
Over Mexico
Flying Fish Over Mexico (2004, Spain/Mexico) is multimedia theater with Butoh and poetic writing. Diving into the origins of humans and Mexican culture —through the cycle of birth, life, and death. It was co-produced by Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico State, and National Center for the Arts, Mexico City.
AZ The Monster Learns Words
AZ The Monster Learns Words (1994, Spain) is an early experiment in Madrid’s multimedia theater scene, telling the story of a girl who teaches a monster to speak atop a mountain of sand beneath a sky of images and dreams. Their journey spans from Love to Terrorism and everything in between. Selected by Sala Cuarta Pared in Madrid.
The First Universe
The First Universe (2000-2002, US) is a trilogy that collects Memories of Uruguay, The Numbers of Earth, and Wild Blues. Written in New York while making the film New York Spin and the art installation 282 Broadway, the trilogy remains unpublished but has been used as source material for stage works, extending its poetic vision into performance.
— POETRY
The Book of B
The Book of B (2023, Spain) tells the story of a boy who lives with his head inside a box. Written in the form of a children’s book, it blends fiction, non‑fiction, and poetic writing to explore language, imagination, and identity. Upcoming, this work promises a playful yet profound journey where even a single letter can reshape destiny. I Photo: CERN
— POETRY
"This body of work spans filmmaking, visual theater, poetry, drama books, a PhD dissertation, visual essays, and articles. │ Filmmaking explores new narratives, connecting daily life with myth and imagination. The work has been recognized with awards at international festivals and includes projects ranging from feature films to video installations, screened across multiple countries. │ Visual Theater develops stage imagery that merges movement, text, and visual composition. Productions have been presented at major cultural institutions and theaters, combining symbolic landscapes with experimental storytelling to create immersive experiences. │ Poetry nurtures all creative work, shaping the foundation of both stage and screen projects. Collections trace love, self-fiction, history, and fantastic tales, while more recent writing adds the layer of a classic story as a way to experiment with narrative form." I FFW
Writing is First
Photo: Life Drawing
FILMMAKING
New York Spin (2002, Spain, US, 87:00, 63:00) documentary feature film tells a multicultural story of New Yorkers lives and dreams. "New York Spin is an ecology of souls. A poetic tale of humans in a unique mirror of the world. The film follows characters for two years. A celebration of diversity." — PV
Documentary Feature Film
You Are Mythical (2018, Spain, 80:00) documentary feature film connects daily life and myths. "Penelope is in search of love. Antigone dissolves into herself. Jason fights his dream as a Dragon. Siren listens to the call. Oedipus escapes his fate. Narcissus looks at the mirror. Ulysses is an untiring traveler." — PV
Documentary Feature Film
Multiple Portraits (2014-2024, Spain/Mexico/Jordan) video installation trilogy: Tarahumara Project, Humans in the Desert, Penelope is Waiting. "Deserts, physical and mental, where life happens. Classic film language is deconstructed as action is fragmented on simultaneous screens." — PV
Video Installations
The House of My Dreams (2016, Mexico/Spain, 19:00) fiction short film at Tecnológico de Monterrey as a “magical tale of a man that never lived in his house. Beautiful and disturbing presences appear in his dreams." [IMDb]
Fiction Short Film
Crossing Europe (2015, Spain, 30:00) documentary short film that follows for two years Crossing Stages UC3M European project, aired on Canal 22 Mexico as a "multicultural portrait of Europe today." [IMDb]
Documentary Short Film
Crossing Stages (2013-2015, Spain) web series produced by Crossing Stages: In Search of the Myth theater; Whisperers urban action; About Innocence dance; Les Sept Dormants dance; Mythical Visions, UniEscena Festival events. [IMDb]
Web Series
TRANSMEDIA PROJECTS I "New York Spin presents a 87:00 film for movie theaters, 63:00 film for TV, 6 short films, and 18 micro-stories for digital platforms. A cutting-edge site built in 2002 included interactive navigation. The structure follows opposites: First/Last, Win/Lose, Up/Down, In/Out. Segments are connected, some characters appear in several stories, and the last one is seen in all of them. I You Are Mythical sets the audience free to watch the film (80:00), stories (10:00), visual poems (3:00), and animations (1:00). Myth is the opening piece, Life shows the connection with the chosen myth, and Visual Poem links Myth and Life." — FFW
「 SELECTED WORK 」
VISUAL THEATER
AZ The Monster Learns Words (1994) - Original title El decálogo del monstruo [Unpublished] visual theater where a girl teaches a monster how to speak on a mountain of sand under a sky of images and dreams. Their journey takes them from Love to Terrorism, and everything in between. It’s an early practice in Madrid on multimedia theater, exploring visual storytelling. It was pre-selected by Sala Cuarta Pared.
Visual Theater
Flying Fish Over Mexico (2004) - Peces voladores sobre México [Premiered] visual theater-dance on the origins of humans through Mexican cultures and the love story of mega-continents Gondwana and Laurasia. A production by Flying Fish Work, co-produced by Tecnológico de Monterrey Mexico State with the support of the National Center for the Arts, Teatro Salvador Novo.
Visual Theater
Future Roots - Raíces futuras [Upcoming] visual theater and Butoh project exploring new narratives and technology. It may take the form of a transmedia project including film, digital media, and visual art. Work in progress by Flying Fish Work through ongoing creative research with artists in Madrid and New York.
Visual Theater
MULTIMEDIA / VISUAL THEATER I Flying Fish Over Mexico. "The history of continents lays that settlers of America arrived through the Bering Strait from Asia. We imagine a fantastic world where American pueblos meet their Oriental essence. Magical times where flying fish glided as Mexican people looked at themselves dreaming of the future. Endless Lovers, Gondwana and Laurasia, rebirth through time and space into men and women who cannot stop loving each other. Wise Children, maybe Indigo, light a never-ending flow of encounters. White Dancers portray the cycle of birth/life/death through Butoh. Original Souls, senior narrators, represent pre-Hispanic visions of the genesis of Mexico and human life." — PV
「 SELECTED WORK 」
POETRY
Memories of Uruguay (2000) - Memorias del Uruguay is a collection of love poems weitten by someone who has never visited that country.
"Rather than documenting lived experience, the book transforms absence into an expanding ground. Uruguay becomes a distant landscape where the imagined becomes real, and the unreal becomes intimate."
「 UNPUBLISHED BOOKS 」
The Numbers of Earth (2000) - Los números de la Tierra collects iconic numbers of the world’s history, the 20th century history, and one person’s history.
"The text shapes three dimensions, where numbers become symbols of memory and imagination. From the origins of the cosmos to Picasso’s paintings, each figure resonates as both historical marker and metaphor. Emerging after an initial approach to poetic writing that found its path through love, and before opening itself to human relations framed by mystery, this book marks the author’s turn toward a deeper exploration of narratives."
Wild Blues (2002) - Azules Salvajes is a poetic journey inspired by extraordinary tales of medieval China.
"This series reinterprets the spirit of those fantastic narratives into a contemporary poetic fabric —meeting the timeless enchantment of Asian storytelling. The poems unfold as dreamlike maps, triggered by the beginnings of these ancient stories: fabulous loves, unexpected encounters, and settings haunted by forests and high mountains. Cartographies of the soul."
The Book of B (2023) - El ibro de B tells the story of a boy who lives with his head inside a box, a fable that blends fiction, non‑fiction, and poetic writing in the form of a children’s book.
"The boy grows into a man searching for B, while B itself searches for its own identity, turning language into a labyrinth of discovery. The journey unfolds as a secret game of words and images, leading to encounters with hidden books, fantastic creatures, and iconic figures."
— External Reviews
The First Universe trilogy was written in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, during the creation of the film New York Spin and the art installation 282 Broadway. Selected texts have later been adapted into theater works, extending its reach into performance and collective experience. The title reflects both the author’s earliest poetic explorations and the shared themes that bind the three volumes together:
Memories of Uruguay embraces the paradox of remembering what was never known. Born from an encounter in New York, the poems trace a love in which one of the lovers returns to Uruguay —imagined as a country of the heart. More than a meditation on place, the book maps hidden emotions into an atlas of nostalgia, where longing and desire intertwine.
The Numbers of Earth interlaces cosmic origins, cultural masterpieces, and the intimate biography of one individual, inviting readers to see history as a living equation in which every number tells a story. Numbers become the coordinates of existence —wars and revolutions, years of discovery, and the tale of personal experience.
Wild Blues draws inspiration from Asian storytelling, particularly the extraordinary tales gathered in Gan Bao’s Soushenji —published in Spain by Lengua de Trapo as Cuentos extraordinarios de la China medieval. Antología del Soushenji. These narratives are transformed into poetic landscapes of fabulous loves, unexpected encounters, and haunting forests, where myth and memory converge.
The First Universe
"The Soushen ji 搜神記 (Annotations on searching for spirits) is canonically considered to be the first example of the zhiguai xiaoshuo 志怪小說 literary strand, which comprises novels or stories about extraordinary events, marked by the presence of spirits, ghosts, and supernatural phenomena. The Soushen ji has been compiled during the first half of the IV century by Gan Bao." I University of British Columbia
"The tales of Soushenji deal with fantastic and horror subjects in an everyday way, perhaps as a remote antecedent of magical realism; they are closely linked to the tradition of European popular literature, and through it American, as stories very similar to those that circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages, creating the substrate of fantastic popular narrative." I Casa del Libro I Artwork: © Soushenji by Anna Podlipentseva
Photo: © CERN I Artwork: © Lucy Campbell
The Book of B was written in Amman, Jordan, during the Gaza war. "A boy follows the trail of B. A girl accompanies him. And B tries to find herself. In the age of fleeting words, language becomes the channel through which this story flows.
Together they travel through a secret map of words: Barbaric, drink. White, kiss. Brave, search. Logbook, box. Beauty, dance. Bubble, toast. Babel, battle. Compass, branch. Bestiary, bless. Brutal, B. Others are left out: codfish, bay, bicycle, binary, bikini, mouth, forest, shine, jump, and mockery.
The journey they embark on is extraordinary: fantastic books, impossible creatures, paths that split, and endless deserts. They cross paths with Albert Einstein, Frida Kahlo, Spiderman, and the Three Wise Men. Creators like Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, André Breton, Kazuo Ohno, Robert Wilson, and Björk. Also the futuristic film Blade Runner, the flamenco icon Camarón de la Isla, and the whale Moby Dick.
Iconic places emerge, like the Berlin Wall, and parallel realities that open within the multiverse. A medieval-inspired bestiary parades by, along with fish flying over the lights of New York’s Chinatown. There are joyful moments, like a gypsy wedding, and darker ones, like wars. The story speaks of human destiny and the mysteries of the Universe. A compass, a lighthouse, and a contraption appear. Plots that drift, return, and surprise. A great deal of love. And a flash of surrealism."
The Book of B
[SPANISH] "Un niño sigue el rastro de B. Una niña lo acompaña. Y B intenta encontrarse a sí misma. En la era de la palabra fugaz, el lenguaje es el cauce por el que discurre esta historia.
Juntos recorren un mapa secreto de palabras: Bárbaro, beber. Blanca, besar. Bravo, buscar. Bitácora, boxear. Belleza, bailar. Burbuja, brindar. Babel, batallar. Brújula, bifurcar. Bestiario, bendecir. Brutal, B. Otras quedan fuera: bacalao, bahía, bicicleta, binario, bikini, boca, bosque, brillo, brinco y burla.
El viaje que emprenden es extraordinario: libros fantásticos, criaturas imposibles, caminos que se bifurcan y desiertos infinitos. Se cruzan con Albert Einstein, Frida Kahlo, Spiderman y los Reyes Magos. Creadores como Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, André Breton, Kazuo Ohno, Robert Wilson y Björk. También la película futurista Blade Runner, el icono flamenco Camarón de la Isla y la ballena Moby Dick.
Surgen espacios icónicos como el Muro de Berlín y realidades paralelas que se abren en el multiverso. Desfilan un bestiario de inspiración medieval y peces que vuelan sobre las luces de Chinatown de Nueva York. Hay momentos felices, como una boda gitana, y otros oscuros, como las guerras. Se habla del destino humano y de los misterios del Universo. Aparecen una brújula, un faro y un artilugio. Tramas que se desvían, que regresan, que sorprenden. Mucho amor. Y un destello de surrealismo".
ARCHITECTURE OF FUTURES I "It is an architecture of futures still to come. A body of work as a constellation of stories, each one a door into other times, and possible worlds. Fusing poetic language with visual storytelling, it transforms narrative into ritual and writing into a multi-layered experience. Dreamlike and human, personal and universal, these texts invite to thinking and beauty. Blending surrealism, myth, and fierce intimacy, the style dances between fable, cinematic scope, and lyrical tone. Whether through alphabet lessons with a silent monster, flying fish in mythical Mexico, dragons born in ancient China, or a boy navigating the universe of the letter B, these works pulse with inspiring voices as living texts designed to expand. Each serves as roots for further works in film, theater, and visual art. This is literature as origin: writing to be embodied, staged, and set into motion." Site I EXTERNAL REVIEW
The Monster, the Fish, the Dragon, and the Box
"VISUAL THEATER I AZ The Monster Learns Words (1994) begins in a desert of sand, where a young girl meets a voiceless creature —a possible AI, a forgotten machine, a new species— buried beneath silence. In a tender act of communication, she teaches the monster the alphabet, one word at a time. This work seems a parable of contemporary alienation, touching on innocence, violence, and the desperate need for shared language. It was also an early experiment in visual theater in Madrid, with layered video projections and onstage screens, which transformed the stage into a living audiovisual narrative —a deconstructed and postmodern quest of what it means to learn, to name, and to be seen.
Flying Fish Over Mexico (2004) is an epic poem disguised as a dreamscape. Set in a mythical age before ‘eagles and snakes,’ this work explores a country where ancestral memories and fantastical migrations collide. Conceived as a journey into the origins of humanity and Mexican culture, it explores the eternal cycle of birth, life, and death through movement, image, and word. The piece embodies a dialogue between tradition and experimentation, where myth and ritual are reimagined on stage. This piece is a mosaic, blurring cultures with speculative myth, and dance with cosmology.
POETRY I The First Universe (2000-2002) trilogy includes Memories of Uruguay, The Numbers of Earth, and Wild Blues. It rises from the heart of Brooklyn and across ancient China, summoning creatures of scale and metaphor. Rooted in the energy of film and visual art works by the author, these stories breathe fire into forgotten tales and new legends alike. The trilogy reads like a hybrid between sci-fi epic and philosophical poem, folding time into spirals and cities into labyrinths of metamorphosis. It is also a love letter to both the East and the West.
The Book of B (2023) is a luminous, labyrinthine children’s book for adults or perhaps a philosophical graphic novel without the graphics. The text follows a boy with his head inside a box, traveling from one B word to another: Brutal, Bestiary, Blessing. What unfolds is part alphabet, part movie-road trip, and part poetic manifesto. This work mixes pop culture, war, personal myth, and magical realism with ease —inviting figures into a surrealist multiverse. It is a tale of seeking meaning, connection, and a language that can capture the world." Site I EXTERNAL REVIEW
DRAFTS FOR WRITING │ Light the Universe is a digital collage with elements from AZ The Monster Learns Words (visual theater) and The Book of B (poetry), distant in time, sharing the presence of monsters and the power of language.
DRAFTS FOR WRITING │ Digital work connected with The First Universe: Iron Horse for Inner Geographies, Folding Chair for Memories of Uruguay, Iron Worker for The Numbers of Earth. │ Lightning 01 and Lightning 02 are connected with Inner Geographies including Horse by Leonardo da Vinci and Dragon —figures in Chinese astrology—, and the word horse in Oriental characters.