On Friday, May 3, experimental filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Ana Armengod will screen a selection of experimental films and share the interplay between her work as a filmmaker, a poet and a visual artist as part of MacDowell Downtown.

This free event will be presented at The Monadnock Center for History and Culture, 19 Grove St., beginning at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. with refreshments served.

Armengod is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist born in Mazatlán Sinaloa, currently living in Braddock, Pa. On this, her first MacDowell fellowship, Armengod is editing footage recently shot in Cuba. Whether in the form of film, visual art or poetry, she looks to accentuate the overlooked and unimportant, while questioning how these things push us to evolve. On Friday, she will screen recent shorts that draw on her experience as a formerly undocumented and imprisoned immigrant.

“I’m an avant-garde filmmaker,” she stated. “When thinking of art that speaks about immigration, folks tend to think of bright, colorful banners with monarch butterflies, which are meant to inspire us to break these borders and be free. That is not me.”

If you go

Who: Filmmaker Ana Armengod

What: MacDowell Downtown, May 3, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Where: Monadnock Center for History and Culture, 19 Grove St., Peterborough