Mexiko 3
From urbanism to queerness, this program features four films on a variety of issues facing Mexican society today. These are framed by short animations from indigenous mythology.
Sunday, 19. Mar 2023 // 20:00 Uhr @ W1 – Zentrum für junge Kultur Theatersaal
Wednesday, 22. Mar 2023 // 17:00 Uhr @ W1 – Zentrum für junge Kultur Theatersaal
El Buzo
Mexico 2015, color, 15 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Esteban Arrangoiz
Julio César Cu Cámara is the leader of Mexico City’s team of sewer divers. Their job is to repair pumps and remove waste from sewage canals in order to channell black water away from the city, lowering the risk of floods in a city that has a history of serious flooding problems.
About the Origin of Earth
Mexico 2017, color, 1 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Gabriela Badillo
The Seris tell the story of how a long time ago, when there was only the sea, a turtle dove to the bottom of the sea to pull up some sand. That’s how the earth we live on today was formed.
Dirt
Mexico 2021, color, 19 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Gustavo Gamero
Production: Marcela Ayala
Consuela is the mother of a missing young woman in Mexico. One day, she witnesses the secret burial of a child’s body, so she decides to unearth the body to bury it worthily in the nearest graveyard in the town she lives in.
About how we got the Sun and the Moon
Mexico 2017, color, 1 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Gabriela Badillo
The Tentals tell the story of how many years ago a child persuaded his mother to go up to the firmament, knowing that they did not belong to this world. So they became the moon and the sun to give light and warmth to the people.
Mi edad, la tuya y la del mundo
Mexico 2020, color, 28 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Fernanda Tovar
On September 19, 2017, a terrible earthquake hit Mexico City. My grandparents lost their apartment. While they took out their things and faced the consequences of such a tragedy, my grandmother and I made this movie.
The Origin of Life
Mexico 2016, color, 1 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Gabriela Badillo
The Chols tell the story of how the Lord of Heaven sent the flood after creating the earth and the first human beings, for the origin of life as we know it. That is how the stars and our first ancestors were born.
Winter
Mexico 2021, color, 16 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Rafael Ruiz Espejo, Luis Pacheco
Production: Rafael Eduardo Espejo
Nico works as a drag queen in order to support themself. Nico’s dad, with whom they don’t have a very close relationship, comes to town for a doctor’s appointment. Nico must hide their queer lifestyle from him, along with their new life as a drag queen.