by Gabriel Figueroa Flores, Diego Lòpez, Messico 2007, 78'
| SCENEGGIATURA: Margarita Mansilla, Diego López |
MONTAGGIO: Ramón Cervantes | |
| FORMATO ORIGINALE: 35mm | ||
| FOTOGRAFIA: Manuel Álvarez Bravo | PRODUTTORE: Production Company: Productora Río Escondido |
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| SUONO: Carlos Aguilar Zafra | ||
| MUSICA: Silvestre Revueltas, Arturo Márquez |
Presented at The Screen of the Arts 2008Fifty years ago, the director Gabriel Figueroa and the photographer Manuel Alvarez-Bravo began working on a documentary that celebrated the Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Thanks to these never shown or edited various materials, Figueroa’s son and Rivera’s grandson created a film which becomes a sort of manifesto of the Muralist art and of a crucial age for the Mexican history. In a paradoxical live screen, past and present, personal memory and official history join together. The movie becomes an unique temporal experience for both directors and audience, that get the possibility to go inside a historical period through the same protagonists’ voices and eyes. The film becomes even a lesson for young artists about how they can join together, thinking their art as something that goes beyond itself as a sort of vision of the future.
Gabriel Figueroa Flores
Gabriel Figueroa Flores is a Mexican photographer, author of several books about the architecture and the history of his country. He has been tutor in a goverment funded project for young photographer-artists and is in charge of his father’s photo archive.
Diego Lòpez
Diego Lòpez has worked for cinema and the Mexican TV for more than 25 years. He has directed the Mexican Cinematography Institute and the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. His films, such as Crónica de Familia (1985), were screened and awarded in several international festivals.
Selected Filmography
1979 Niebla 1985 Historias violentas 1986 Rogelio Cuellar; Crónica de familia 1988 Goitia, un dios para sí mismo