Mexperimental Cinema is the first major exhibition to consider the history of Mexico’s alternative film and video practices. Guest curators Rita González and Jesse Lerner have collected firsthand accounts and combed Mexican archives to compile this substantial documentation of Mexican experimental cinema throughout the century. The result is a rich, dynamic, and wide-ranging survey of more than sixty years of innovation little known to audiences either within Mexico or abroad. Under different thematic axes, the organizers have brought together the work of several generations of artists who reflect diverse cinematic agendas and work in a variety of media formats—Super-8, 35mm and 16mm film, and video. The series investigates the engagement of Mexican cinema with (and, at times, its estrangement from) the international avant-garde, its varied relationships to Mexican commercial film and television, and its liaisons with painting, performance, still photography, theater, caricature, ethnography, and other disciplines. Evaluated collectively, the films represent an often ignored face of Mexican national cinema.