This programme wishes to review experimental, alternative and independent filmmaking in contemporary Mexico. Though largely focusing on the production made in the wake of the Mexperimental*, encounters, it also includes previous works. We take “contemporary experimental” to mean a variety of (formally countercultural) alternative film and video practices, as well as a search for forms of production and distribution made possible by new technologies.

• PROGRAMME 1. From 15 of April to 12 of July

ORIGINS / TECHNOLOGY:
Gregorio Rocha. Los rollos perdidos de Pancho Villa, 2003
Video DV, 8´54” (dos fragmentos)
Fernando Llanos. Stereovisión, 2008
Mini DV / Vídeo Celular, 7´25”

VOICES:
Adrián Arce, Diego Rivera y Antonio Zirión. Voces de la Guerrero, 2004
Mini DV, 10´52” (fragment)

BORDER:
Jesse Lerner y Rubén Ortiz. Fronterilandia, 1995
16 mm, 9´19” (fragment), including a version with commentaries of the filmmakers

BODY:
Alfredo Salomón. Tensa calma, 2008
HD, 8´31”
Alejandra Islas. Muxes: Auténticas intrépidas buscadoras del peligro, 2005
Mini DV, 5´27” (fragmento)

MOVEMENT / PERCEPTION:
Luis Emilio Valdés. Feliz cumpleaños, 2006
DV, 5´07

MEDIATION / CONSUMPTION:
Ivan Edeza. De negocios y placer, 2000
Mini DV, 1´37”
Paulina del Paso. Invasión doméstica, 2002
DV, 3´16”
Domenico Capello. Phonesex, 2001
Mini DV, 0´56’’
Ricardo Nicolayevsky. The Big Whack, 2002
16 mm, 2´28”

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• PROGRAMME 2. From 15 of July to 25 of October

ORIGINS / TECHNOLOGY:
Juan Carlos de la Parra. Muybridge cuántico, 2008
Mini DV, 0´37”

VOICES:
Bruno Varela. Exotic Nippon, 2000
Super 8, 2´06”
Jesse Lerner. The American Egypt, 2001
16mm, 11´34” (fragment)

BORDER:
Juan Carlos de la Parra. Transmigraciones, 2004
DV, 7´08”

BODY:
Ximena Cuevas. Cama, 1998
DV, 1´59”
Grace Quintanilla. Nací mujer, Whatever that Means, 2003
Mini DV, 4´24”
Jessica Cruz. Mujer Rota, 2003
DV, 4’30
María José Alós y Artemio Narro. Poetry in Motion, 2004
Mini DV, 11´09”

MEDIATION / CONSUMPTION:
Txema Novelo. Playing for Money, 2007
16 mm / DV, 12’15”

* (González, R. y Lerner, J. Mexperiemental: 60 años de vanguardias en México, Santa Mónica, Smart Art Press, 1998)