Ouroboros
2018 México
16mm film altered / Digital
Black and White
HD (1920 x 1080) 16:9
8:57 min Stereo
Philosophical essay on 2 significant events in Mexico: the massacre of students in Tlatelolco in 1968 and the forced disappearance of students in Ayotzinapa in 2014. The official voices of each moment are similar and the (sampled) voices of the presidential candidates in 2018, sentence the social condition of Mexico within the Eternal Return; on the image of a daily environment such as the subway that connects both events.
This film received support from the Film Archive of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Ingmar Bergman Chair for Film and Theater, the National Film Archive, DOCS MX Film Festival, Goethe Institute Mexico, and Ambulante Film Festival
Screenings:
2024 Loops Expanded selection. with DuplaCena (Lisbon), Proyector (Madrid), OndaVideo (Pisa), and WWVF (Amsterdam). Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo – Museo del Chiado. Lisbon, Portugal. 12 – 17 agosto.
2022 Festival of (In)appropriation 12. Los Angeles Filmforum on October 2 and at The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) on October 19th. Guest Curators: Marie-Pierre Burquier, Allyson Unzicker, and Micki Davis. USA
2021 TV UNAM. Broadcast national screening. México. April 12.
2021 Cinema NUBO Festival. Special mention. Aguascalientes, México. April.
2021 FESCISA San Antonio independent Film Festival 2021. Online screening. Quito Ecuador. March 20 -23.
2020 KARAMA Human Rights Film Festival. 11th edition. Main program. Amman, Jordan. December 10-17.
2020 X Festival Iberoamericano de cortometrajes ABC. FIBABC. Spain. October – December.
2020 Das 12 Lateinamerikanische FilmFestival. Pantalla Latina. Shorts selection. Switzerland. November 27 – 29.
2020 Los Angeles Film Forum. Disarm the Right to Violence!: Recent Mexican Experimental Short Films. Programers Madison Brookshire and Jesse Lerner. November 12-26.
2020 7th Corriente: Encuentro Latinoamericano de Cine de No Ficción. Sección Miradas en crisis. Online exhibition. Arequipa, Perú. November 12-26.
2020 1st Bizarrya Short Film Festival. Online exhibition; experimental section. Porto, Portugal. October 1-10.
2020 5th Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival. Online exhibition. Cuzco, Perú. October 1-4.
2020 Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, official selection. Images Manifest Panorama. “Here” section. August and september
2020 Experimental Film Festival, official selection. Spain (diverse locations). July.
2020 Hope First. Festival Universal de Cortometrajes as an audiovisual link from The Festival El Grito de los sin Voz; initiative in defense of Human Rights. Online edition. Spain. July
2020 The Americas Film Festival New York. The 7th Festival edition is online in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes NY and the National Museum of the American Indian. USA. June 25-29
2020 Los Angeles Film Forum. Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA. USA. March 15. Curated by Travis Wilkerson
2020 Inattendus Film Festival. Lyon, France. February 14 – 22
2020 Revolutions per Minute Festival. University of Massachusetts. Boston, MA. USA. January 31 – February 2
2019 Prisma Rome Independent Film Awards. Official Selection. Rome, Italy.
2019 Oaxaca Film Fest. Sección Nueva Industria, Proyectos Desarrollados. Oaxaca, México. October 4-10
2019 Film Fest Zell. Zell am See, Austria. October 3-6
2019 DOBRA Festival Int’l de Cinema Experimental. MAM Rio. Río de Janeiro, Brasil. September 28
2019 Proceso de Error. Festival Internacional de Video Experimental. Valparaíso, Chile. October 1
2019 Muestra de Cine Experimental, Cine Tonalá Tijuana. Tijuana, México. September 12
2019 III Muestra de Cortometrajes. Nayarit México. September 10
2019 MUTA Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual. Lima, Perú. August 21 – 24
2019 San Diego Underground Film Festival. San Diego, USA. August 22 – 25
2019 V Jornadas de Investigación en Artes de la Universidad de Costa Rica. San José, Costa Rica. June
2019 VIDEO EX Experimental Film & Video Festival. Zurich, Switzerland. May 25 – 2 June
2019 Cámara Lúcida – Encuentros Cinematográficos. Cuenca, Ecuador. May.
2019 II Muestra de Cine Mexicano Contemporáneo. Barcelona, Spain. May 12
2019 FINI Festival Internacional de la Imagen. Finalist in the Professional Documentary section. Pachuca, Hidalgo. Mexico.
May 2-10
2019 De l’autre côté: cinéma expérimental mexicain. Paris, France. March 19
2018 ULTRAcinema MX. INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & FOUND FOOTAGE CINEMA. Xalapa, Veracruz. Mexico. November 22-25
2018 ARCADIA: INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF RESCUED AND RESTORED CINEMA. UNAM Film Archive. Mexico City. Mexico. September 25