Personal Cinema: AKURO/ALVAREZ

Personal Cinema: Akuro/Alvarez

The Next installment in our ongoing Personal Cinema series will be celebrating the work of Andrew Alvarez and Akuro Imbu. Theirs is a  collaborative project between two artists that began quite by chance in 2020 when filmmaker Alvarez moved into the same building as musician, writer and audio engineer Akuro. The telltale signs of art practice, gear carried through the halls and music echoing through the walls piqued their interest in one another and a fruitful artistic partnership came together organically and formed into what Akuro calls “a continuous easy conversation that never looks backwards.”

Both hailing from smaller-city backgrounds (Andrew Alvarez from Rochester, NY; Akuro Imbu from Minneapolis MN), this and other congruences in their personal histories and worldviews made Andrew a natural visual interpreter for Akuro’s raw words and sonic concepts. Characteristic of their project is an on-the-fly production style, only rarely working with other…