Friday | January 21, 2000 7:00 pm

Mexperimental Cinema:
60 Years of Avant-Garde Media Arts from Mexico
Program 1: Surveying the Terrain

Co-Curator Rita González in Person

The first program is designed to provide an overview of the eclecticism of the series as well as to demonstrate the curators’ broad conception of the term "experimental."

PROGRAM

Humanidad (Humanity)

Directed by Adolfo Best Maugard.
Mexico, 1934, 35mm, black & white, 1 min.
fragment.
Magueyes

Directed by Rubén Gámez.
Mexico, 1962, 35mm, color, 12 min.
El despojo (The Dispossession)

Directed by Antonio Reynoso.
Mexico, 1958–60, 35mm, color, 12 min.
Untitled (Quiero ser un actor) (I Want to be an Actor)

Directed by Fernando Sampietro.
Mexico, 1970, Super 8 transferred to digital video, color, 3 min.
Desnudo desciende

Directed by Silvia Gruner.
Mexico, 1986, Super 8 transferred to digital video, color, 3 min.
Desnudo con alcatraces

Directed by Silvia Gruner.
Mexico, 1986, Super 8 transferred to digital video, color, 3 min.
Pecado Original Reproducción

Directed by Silvia Gruner.
Mexico, 1986, Super 8 transferred to digital video, color, 5 min.
El fin (The End)

Directed by Sergio García.
Mexico, 1970, Super 8 transferred to digital video, color, 12 min.
Retrato de la generacion en crisis (Portrait of the Crisis Generation)

Directed by Roberto López.
Mexico, 1998, video, color, 8 min.
Medias mentiras (Half Lies)

Directed by Ximena Cuevas.
Mexico, 1994, video, color, 14 min.