“Xilitla” is the name of a film presented by visual artist Melanie Smith at the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011. It is a piece that combines the very different media of video and painting, in a combination rare among the artist’s works. Smith has performed in it a “dismantling of the frame through conceptual plays on repetition and difference, through which her production is displaced from painting toward the potential to ‘unframe’ the frame.”