Rey Parlá is a Cuban American visual artist working in photography, painting and filmmaking. Parlá first received recognition for his “motion-paintings” at the 12th Annual Miami International Film Festival: The Avant-Garde Returns, presented by Harvard Film Archive Curator, Bruce Posner. Parlá’s time based media works are short Super 8 film documentaries he then hand-painted, edited, and collaged after shooting his brother José Parlá and friends during their creation of many mural projects in Miami. Born in Miami and partly raised in Puerto Rico in his early childhood, Rey was informed by the various cosmic events of the early 1980s when he kept a visual scrap-book of newspaper clippings on the then current space flights from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida in a suitcase his father discarded. Touring the small Caribbean island’s rich landscapes with his family and gazing up at the stars with his brother are very vivid memory for the artist. Parlá has received Honorable and Special Event Presentations for his films: Rumba Abstracta, Sporadic Germination, and The Revolution of Super 8 Universe: A Self-Portrait at several film festivals such as: The Anti Film Festival, The Alliance Cinema, Milan International Film Festival, Flower Film Festival, The Central Florida Film & Video Festival, The Independent Feature Project, El Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte Roma (MUCA Roma), The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives, and The Cuban Alternative Film Festival in Little Habana. From 2007 to 2010, Rey co-produced and was co-director for the travelogue; The New Grand Tour, a project exhibited in Hong Kong (2007), Beijing (2008), and at Bryce Wolkowitz’s Gallery in New York City (2010), which produced two exhibition monographs where Rey presented his poetry, photography, and manifesto in collaboration with a group of artist friends. Also with Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Rey’s work has previously shown at Paris Photo. Early in 2011 curator Helen Homan Wu of Opalnest Independent Projects presented SONIC ARCHITEXTURES, an experiential art event with a new film by Rey, entitled: Emulsions, Glitches, and Scratches in a live sound and image performance with MERCE (Maria Chavez and Shelley Burgon). In May of 2012, Rey travelled to Habana, Cuba with French artist JR and his brother José Parlá for their collaboration during the 11th Havana Biennial with The Wrinkles of the City: Habana, Cuba project as co-director of photography for their documentary and book with Damiani and Standard Press covering the mixed media murals they completed during a one month stay. Parlá has collaborated with performance artist Natasha Tsakos in Miami Beach, Vanessa Gocksch of Intermundos, and Ralph Falcón of Murk Records. Critical theorist, filmmaker, and collaborator; Michael Betancourt, has written specially about Rey’s film work. Parlá has also lectured at Savannah College of Art & Design on experimental time based media and photography. Parlá’s work is in various international private collections and the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection. Rey Parlá’s other photography documenting his brother has been published in Forbes, Brooklyn Rail, NY Daily News, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Champ Magazine, Cultured Magazine, and other foreign periodicals as well as his brother’s artist monographs. Rey’s short films and documentaries have screened at several films festivals with honorable mention. His first solo exhibition Borderless was exhibited at happy Lucky No.1 Gallery in 2016; a monograph of the same title was self-published in the same year.