Wet Heat Project are documentary filmmakers producing commissioned and independent films with a focus on art and performance, in locations worldwide. Bill Bilowit and Grela Orihuela established the Miami-based company in 2008; filmmaker and artist Marilyn Loddi joined in 2016.

Our films bring genuine spontaneaity and nuance to shortform art documentaries, capturing details that cannot be staged. Watch selections from our many films from the categories below; read on for more about us and our work.

Our films include interviews with Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Hernan Bas, Thomas Bayrle, Larry Bell, Ross Bleckner, Amy Cappellazzo, Judy Chicago, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Tomás Esson, Rachel Feinstein, Charles Gaines, Adler Guerrier, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Guadalupe Maravilla, John Miller, Damian Ortega, Eric-Paul Riege, Norberto Rodriguez, Don and Mera Rubell, Jerry Saltz, Jacolby Satterwhite, Manuel Solano, Jen Stark, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, and many more.

Our projects include in-depth original films for the Harpo Foundation (3-part series 2023), Miami's Institute of Contemporary Art (more than 40 films 2015-2022), the experimental art institution Locust Projects (12 films 2021-2023), the Miami Design District (12 gallery visit films 2020-2024), performance documentation for the Jorge M. Pérez collection/art space El Espacio 23, walk-through experiences with collector-curator commentary for the Margulies Collection (2020-2022), nationwide studio visits for The Chicago Project X public art exhibition (11-film series 2014), and our independent 20-episode series Studio Drive-by which captured a transformative independent art scene in financial crisis Miami (2008-2010).

Our perfomance films include dance events by Trisha Brown Dance Company, Michael Clark Company, Adam Weinert (presenting Ted Shawn's Dance of the Ages), Paul Maheke with Sophie Mallet, music events such as a sound-bathing ritual by artist Guadelupe Maravilla, a jazz quartet recital composed and led by artist Charles Gaines (A Visionary Recital - After Terry Adkins), and a jubilant rooftop art week concert by Shamir.

Our 2010 feature film miamiHeights is a two-year ride-along with painter Hernan Bas' meteoric career launch– from a 2007 major survey show by the Rubell Collection to the artist's first New York solo shows at the Brooklyn Museum and Lehmann Maupin– all before the age of 30.

Our 2011 feature film making sh*t up is a multi-year journey with conceptual artist Norberto Rodriguez, from his 2008 Whitney Biennial 3-week performance to the challenge of a roller-coaster career path ahead. The film includes commentary on conceptual art by his idol Vito Acconci, plus Marina Abramovic, Amy Cappellazzo, Jerry Saltz, and many more.

Bill Bilowit (development /direction /camera /edit) has been filming non-fiction and fiction films all his life, the first 13 years of which were on fabled MacDougal Street. Following a childhood with theater-career parents, his timeline includes shooting 16mm documentaries for cultural events in NYC while a teenager; studying film theory (with Barbara Leaming) at Hunter College; creating feature film production design, art direction, special scenic effects and set decorating for east coast horror movies such as Creepshow, CHUD, The Prowler, Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, Nightmare, Hell High, and Sleepaway Camp; developing and directing lifestyle and workplace videos (1993-2003) for Sony Japan and Canon USA depicting near-future concept devices (like a mobile phone with... a camera); and directing two independent fiction feature films with locations in Tokyo, LA, and Miami. An increasingly art-centric focus led to co-founding Wet Heat Project in 2008 with partner Grela Orihuela.

Marilyn Loddi (development /direction /camera /edit) has been producing art documentaries in Miami since 2014 including films for Locust Projects and the Margulies Collection. Her interdisciplinary art practice includes founding the collaborative artist project Hush Fell (@hushfell) in 2020, integrating sculpture, performance, filmmaking, graphics, and sound. Marilyn's character-based work includes performances at Locust Projects, Edge Zones Gallery, Touché Boutique (Tunnel Projects), Bakehouse Art Complex, The Nerve: Performance Art Festival, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FilmGate: Interactive Media Festival, Miami Beach Urban Studios: Digital Oculus, and Edge Zones: Miami Performance International Festival. Her sculptural / video work has been shown at Zilberman Gallery, Satellite Art Fair, III Points, Place Project Group’s pop-up at The Miami Design District and at The Sagamore Art Week 2020 exhibitions. Marilyn graduated from the FIU Honors College, majoring in Video Art and Art History.

Grela Orihuela (Exec Producer /Advisor) co-founded Wet Heat Project with partner Bill Bilowit in 2008. She is presently the Vice President of Global Fairs at Design Miami (since 2021). Grela is Cuban by birth and grew up in Astoria, Queens. She graduated from NYU Tisch Film School Fine Arts program, followed by executive positions in broadcast television at WABC-TV news, Telemundo Network, and for independent syndicated Spanish-language programming. Her producing shifted to international projects and multimedia events for fashion (with Kal Ruttenstein) and music (with Bill Graham), followed by large-scale corporate events with in-venue concerts by Tony Bennett, Cyndi Lauper, Julio Iglesias, and Celine Dion. Her art career includes curation of multi-artist video programs for NADA Miami Beach, NADA Hudson, Vanity Projects in New York City, Art Wynwood Contemporary Art Fair, Arte Americas, and the Los Angeles Art Association. Her art consultancy 1meter50 was established in 2019 for private clients.