A pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village.Read More »
Gabino Rodríguez
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Nicolás Pereda – Fauna (2020)
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Nicolás Pereda – Perpetuum Mobile (2009)
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Gabino is a 24-year old man who still lives with his mother and works as a moving truck driver in Mexico City. His mother, Teresa, worships Gabino’s older brother, Miguel, whom never visits them. Gabino and his mother have a distant relationship that comes to a climax when they stumble upon an unexpected discovery.Read More » -
Nicolás Pereda – Fauna (2020)
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In a run-down Mexican mining town, Luisa brings her boyfriend Paco home to meet her family. They’re both actors, and the visit grows increasingly (and hilariously) awkward as Luisa’s father becomes fascinated by Paco’s minor role in a television phenomenon. Fauna’s exploration of performance deepens as the film reinvents itself halfway through, reconfiguring its characters into a mystery plot set at a nearby hotel. Scenes and characters begin to repeat and revise each other’s earlier incarnations, creating a deadpan mindbender that grows more entrancing with each beguiling detour, and invites a parallel universe of interpretations. (MK)Read More » -
Julián Hernández – Yo soy la felicidad de este mundo AKA I Am Happiness on Earth (2014)
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Julián Hernández eroticizes nude men like no other filmmaker. His camera practically caresses the actors’ bodies, and viewers who appreciate his distinctive style of cinema often share the palpable desire his characters feel. His latest film, “I am Happiness on Earth” is not unlike his earlier film, “Broken Sky,” in that it tells of a love triangle where much of the communication is done without dialogue.Read More » -
Raya Martin & Mark Peranson – La última película (2013)
2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryMexicoRaya Martin and Mark PeransonIn this documentary within a narrative-and vice versa-a grandiose filmmaker (Alex Ross Perry) arrives in the Yucatán to scout locations for his new movie, a production that will involve exposing the last extant celluloid film stock on the eve of the Mayan Apocalypse. Instead, he finds himself waylaid by the formal schizophrenia of the film in which he himself is a character. Simultaneously a tribute to and a critique of The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper’s seminal obliteration of the boundary separating life and cinema), La última película engages with the impending death of celluloid through a veritable cyclone of film and video formats, genres, modes, and methods. Martin and Peranson have created an unclassifiable work that mirrors the contortions and leaps of the medium’s history and present. An Art of the Real 2014 selection. A M’Aidez Films release (C) Lincoln CenterRead More »
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Nicolás Pereda – Los ausentes (2014)
2011-2020ArthouseExperimentalMexicoNicolás PeredaA poor man in his mid seventies lives alone in a house near the beach in the south of Mexico. He doesn’t have the and deed and a foreign man claims the property is his. The man attends a hearing to solve the conflict, but nothing gets resolved. During this time he starts losing his mind. Memories of the past start hunting his daily life. He ends up losing his property and his house gets demolished. He embarks on a journey to the mountains in search for people he knew in the past. A memory of his younger self hunts him throughout the trip. He ends up finding some people he knew, but no one he can stay with, so he continues wandering through the forest and into his memories. He meets his younger self, but doesn’t recognize him. They get drunk together, sing songs of the past and nearly pass out after a long night of drinking.Read More »