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Inspired by an exclusive interview and performance footage of Chavela Vargas shot in 1991 and guided by her unique voice, the film weaves an arresting portrait of a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her unique life into being.
An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, it explores the divergent themes and styles of two contemporary and radical women artists working in the upheaval of the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.
A documentary on the process of production of Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Frescoes and the murals' agitated social context during the years of the Great Depression. The documentary's remarkable archival montage explores the links between industrial labor, public art, and industrial cinema under the exigencies of Fordism.
Human bodies do not disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, torn to pieces. But they are also searched, recovered, and, when forensics achieves the improbable, rebuilt as people. They can only return home when they are identified as dead. An audiovisual journey through the landscapes of an overwhelmed Mexico, between graves and fragments, family and forensic. In search of the human that persists, despite everything.
