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Oblique Takes

Oblique Takes. Meditations on Art and Crisis (2024)

Essay film on the role of art in a world in crisis. 24 minutes. Super 8 and 16mm to digital. Produced by: Artist in Residence Programme, Amsterdam University of the Arts, IberoDocsLab, Studio Pablo MZ.

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This Image Will Not Go Away (2024)

Live film performance in resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, in collaboration with Rogelio Sosa. Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico.

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Transposiciones

Transpositions (2024)

Collaboration for Julieta Gil’s piece for Muralismo Desbordado volume 2. Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts.

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Variaciones de estudio

Studio Variations (2023)

Exhibition at the Netherlands Film Academy on the artist residency process at the Amsterdam University of the Arts.

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Atlas Transgresión

Atlas Transgression (2023)

Artistic direction of the interactive archive of the research project by the Tryspaces collective. Production: TRYSPACES, UNAM Geography Institute, Ibero-American Documentary Laboratory.

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La memoria se filtró por una grieta

La memoria se filtró por una grieta (2022)

Film essay on the Mexico City earthquake and its impact on Xochimilco. 60 minutes. Production: Ibero-American Documentary Laboratory and Pablo MZ Studio

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México 2021

Mexico 2021. Foundations and Conquests (2021)

Transmedia documentary exploring five historical trajectories spanning 700 years of Mexican history. Production: Espacio Cultural San Lázaro and Ibero-American Documentary Laboratory.

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Paisaje Chintololo

Chintololo Landscape (or what ants can teach humans about instrumental reason) (2021)

Interactive landscape inspired by Juan O’Gorman for the O’Gorman O’Gorman exhibition at the Azcapotzalco Cultural Center.

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La otra isla

The Other Island (2020)

Art direction for a transmedia documentary on artistic practices in Cuba. Production: Aura – Ibero-American Documentary Laboratory.

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En la memoria de los cuerpos

In the memory of the bodies (2020)

Audiovisual direction for the choreographic piece directed by Aura Arreola, inspired by Guillermina Bravo, with music by Rogelio Sosa. UNAM Dance Production.

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Forensic Landscapes

Forensic Landscapes (2020)

Art direction for the web documentary directed by Anne Huffschmid on forensic work in Latin America. Production: Freie Universität Berlin and Ibero-American Documentary Laboratory.

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Codex Cochinilla

Codex Cochinilla (2019)

Visual research on the use of cochineal in photographic media. 2019 to present.

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Disecciones sobre planos

Dissections on Planes. Essays from Tlatelolco (2019)

Transmedia documentary exploring the history of Tlatelolco, produced during a residency in Tlatelolco Central. Production: Estudio Pablo MZ, IberoDocsLab, and Procine.

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El cuerpo es un archivo

The Body is an Archive. A game for ten cameras. (2018)

Video installation commissioned by UNAM’s M68 in Tlatelolco; an immersive version is available.

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El monopolio de la memoria

The Monopoly of Memory (2018)

Documentary essay on the 1968 student movement based on photographic collections from the Heraldo de México. 48 min. Production: Ibero-American Documentary Laboratory.

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Estas imágenes son verdad

These Images are True. Microarchive of ignominy. (2018)

Multiple format installation as a critique on memory policies during Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration. Exhibited in various locations.

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MOMENTO MX

MOMENTO MX (2017)

Interactive documentary about creative industries in Mexico. Production: Aura

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Memoria Interactiva

Interactive Memoire Lab22 (2016)

Interactive report for the 1st Transmedia Documentary Storytelling Meeting. Production: Channel 22 + Iberodocs Lab.

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Poema Panorama

Panorama Poem (2015)

Web art and interactive installation exploring the landscape of the Valley of Mexico, exhibited at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in 2015.

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Santos Diableros

Santos Diableros (2015)

Web documentary about the cart drivers of the Barrio de la Merced. Explore online

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La Película

The Film(2014)

An essay documentary that reflects on the challenges of film preservation with the transition to digital cinema. 27 min. 35 mm a HD

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Tanta Luz

So Much Light (2015)

A poetic essay-film that reflects on tradition through speculative fiction. 17 min. HD.

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Susurros del Panteón

Whispers of the Graveyard (2015)

A film poem that explores the San Fernando graveyard through the voice of a ghost. 4 min. HD. Selected for Views of the Historic Center.

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Ciudad Merced

Merced City (2013)

Transmedia documentary that explores different aspects of the La Merced neighborhood.

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El cuerpo del universo

The Body of the Universe in the Shape of a Man (2022)

A video piece that fractures the male body into a self-portrait about the stories that permeate the flesh. 4:00 min. Super 8 to HD.

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Remanencia

Remanencia (2019)

Expanded cinema performance with Sarmen Almond, curator of the Experimental Film Laboratory (LEC). Ex-Teresa Arte Actual.

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SOS MX

SOS MX (2018)

An urgent ritual film about violence in Mexico following the murder of three film students in Jalisco. 4 min. Cochineal dyed super 8 to HD./p>

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Meditaciones desde el ombligo de la Luna

Meditations from the Navel of the Moon (2021-2025)

A multi-screen essay film that will become an expanded performance. In production.

Película escombro

Rubble Film (2017)

Memorial film about the collapse of the building located at Álvaro Obregón 286 after the 2017 earthquake. 3.24 min. Super 8 + cochineal to HD.

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Vida en la línea

Life on the Line: Impressions from Tijuana. (2017)

A visual essay on the border city that draws on diverse voices as well as a voice-over reflection on the idea of ​​the line and the intensities of this liminal territory. 37.20 min. (Commissioned).

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Dar lugar a la ciudad

To Give Place to the City, in Itself Impossible (2017)

Multimedia installation that reflects on possible ways of inhabiting the megalopolis through sculpture, reactive video, and sound, in collaboration with Julieta Gil, Curime Batliner, and Isabel Gil. Exhibited at the National Museum of Art in 2017.

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Querías aprender

You Wanted to Learn (2017)

A film poem that questions desire unfolding over urban space. 8.08 min. Super 8mm to HD.

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La memoria es musgo

Memory is Moss(2016)

A film poem about memory as violence in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. 1.46 min. HD.

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Tejido y Memoria

Fabric and Memory (2016)

Documentary poem about the embroidery community of Temoaya, State of Mexico. Commissioned by Mexiro A.C. 7.33 min. HD.

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Ruta Crítica

Critical Route (2016)

Video and collage installation on the condition of pedestrians in Mexico City. Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico. Solo exhibition commissioned by the Pedestrian League.

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jTatik Francisco

jTatik Francisco (2016)

Documentary about Pope Francis’ visit to Chiapas. 17.29 min. HD. (Commissioned).

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Cuba, ojos de piedra y agua

Cuba, Eyes of Stone and Water (2015)

Solo photography exhibition on Cuba. Casa del Cine MX.

Cartier-Bresson

Merced-Balderas Route (2015)

Interactive tour inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson, commissioned by the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts.

Tacuba #8

Tacuba #8 (2012)

Documentary about the history of the National Museum of Art. 20 min. HD.

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Destino D.F.

Destination D.F. (2014)

Two-channel video installation about Mexico City as a site of convergence of historical trajectories. Commissioned for the Mexico City Pavilion, Zocalo.

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Escenas del comercio

Scenes from Mexican Trade (2012)

Video installation inspired by the Barrio de la Merced, commissioned by the Interactive Museum of Economics.