"Our way of conceiving and thinking about audiovisual work foregrounds imagination as a rhizomatic agent, that is, that there is always a new and latent connection with novel ways of creating/working. To work with something never before seen, captured, or encountered infuses our desire to create experience."

Erik Mares (Mexico City, 1980) studied philosophy for two years at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, later graduating from AMCI/Universidad del Cine with a specialty in cinematography and screenwriting. During the following years, he attended seminars on the philosophy of art, politics of images and montage at the UNAM Film Library, MUAC Expanded Campus and Institute of Critical Studies 17.

Andrea Rodea (Mexico City, 1989) studied communication at a private school in Mexico City and, dissatisfied with the experience, went to New York for 6 months to study a series of workshops at Mono No Aware focused on analog, super 8 and 16mm filmmaking. Upon her return to Mexico, Rodea began to study a series of philosophy seminars focused on the image at UNAM Film Archive and MUAC Expanded Campus.

Mares and Rodea founded Rhizomes Films in 2017, a small production company based in Mexico City. In it they seek to develop and support their own ideas from a poetics derived from a sort of phenomenology of experience. The two have worked on myriad audiovisual projects, together and individually, with several artists including Gerald Cleaver, MOE, Ben Lamar Gay, and with a collection of Chicago artists brought together through a collaboration with Elastic Arts. They have also made documentaries such as Fisuras (2020) in collaboration with Travis Wilkerson, Cátedra Bergman and DocsMX—exhibiting at Film Forum (Los Angeles)—and Cartographies of the Workplace (2021) commissioned by Connecting The Dots.

Born in Chiapas, Mexico, Gustavo studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Jost Lijbaart, Arnold Doyerber and Victor Oskam. He is one of the most requested drummers in Mexico. His wide musical vocabulary enables him to play from heavy noise fusion to traditional Latin music, extending through rock, classical, contemporary and orchestra.

Nandayapa has played with different national and international jazz and improvisation artists such as Remi Álvarez, Don Malfon, Iraida Noriega, Agustín Bernal, Victor Flores, Na'rimbo, Klezmerson, Mark Aanderud, Roberto Verastegui, Victor Flores, Misha Marks, Rodrigo Ambriz, Gilad Hekselman, Joe Morris, Cyro Baptista, Kenny Wollensen, Pere Soto, Bruce Saunders, Natalio Sued, Anders Åstrand, Tim Ries, Werner Dafeldecker, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Brian Marseille, Jay Rodríguez, Al McDowell, and Dennis Gonzalez.

Gustavo has recorded for the Tzadik label (John Zorn) in the Book of Angels (Amon) and Book of Beriah (Tiferet), performed at the Village Vanguard in New York City, Porgy & Bess (Vienna) and Jazz Fest Sarajevo. He has performed in Spain, France, China, Taiwan, Korea, Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Austria, the United States, Colombia, South Africa, Russia and the Mexican Republic.

Gustavo is currently a Bosphorus Cymbals artist.