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Mexperimental Cinema:
60 Years of Avant-Garde Media Arts from Mexico
Program 4: Day Tripping

In the late 1960s, a new generation of radical filmmakers began to make provocative work that reflected the preoccupations of the counterculture. Artists like Chilean-born Alejandro Jodorowsky, his collaborator and cinematographer Rafael Corkidi, and painter/poet Gelsen Gas made films that fused the occult, the Panic movement (a theatrical phenomenon of Jodorowsky’s creation, chiefly inspired by Antonin Artaud), erotics, and a fascination with indigenous rituals. The highlight of this program, Anti-Climax, is a feature-length experimental film comprised of a series of countercultural vignettes that examine the conflicting values of divergent generations and challenge societal attitudes towards sexuality and the Americanization of youth culture.

PROGRAM

  • Roberto el arte (Steal Art)

    Directed by Juan José Gurrola, Arnaldo Cohen, and Gelsen Gas.
    Mexico, 1972, 16mm transferred to digital video, black & white, 35 min.
  • Cine Insurgentes

    Directed by Ed Jones.
    Mexico, 1971, Super 8 transferred to digital video, 3 min.
  • Anti-Climax

    Directed by Gelsen Gas.
    Mexico, 1969, 16mm, black & white, 80 min.

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