La Trinchera (the Trench) is an ensemble of artists who execute live audio-visual improvisations using analog technology, mainly with 16mm projectors. Operating as an impulse generator and calling out for experimentation in a “free fire zone,” this clash of individual creativity provokes a sense of immediacy with visual situations, to create  unique kinetic experience generated through the fusion of image and sound converging in a particular space at a particular time. Since 2004, La Trinchera has taken its expanded cinema performances around the world including  to the Museums Quartier and the Essl Museum, Vienna; the Engelman-Ost Collection, Uruguay; the CCEBA, Argentina; the 8th Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris; the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda and the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City; FLEXfest, Gainsville FL; and  Antimatter Media Art Festival, Canada. For Lux-ex-Machina, La Trinchera will be Mexican expanded cinema performers Elena Pardo, Rafael Balboa and Manuel Trujillo with Seattle-based filmmaker and musician Eric Ostrowsky.