Professor and researcher in the Department of Anthropology at Mexico’s Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) and member of the National System of Researchers (level II). He has a PhD in anthropological sciences from the UAM, an MA in visual anthropology from the University of Manchester, and a BA in ethnology from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH). He has been a visiting professor at the International School of Film and TV (Cuba), the University of Bremen (Germany), and the CCC Film Training Center (Mexico). He is the author and coordinator of numerous books and articles on visual anthropology, ethnographic cinema, documentary history, film ethnography, and film archives. As a photographer and documentary filmmaker, he has published two photo books; his collaborative films, made as part of the Homovidens collective, include Voces de la Guerrero (2004) and Fuera de foco (2013), both of which garnered major national and international recognition. For over twenty years, he has forged a solid career as a cultural manager and worked as a documentary film programmer at festivals such as DocsMX and Ambulante. From 2023 to 2025, he directed the House of the First Printing Press in the Americas, a cultural center and university film club run by the UAM in the historic downtown area of Mexico City.
Professor and researcher in the Department of Anthropology at Mexico’s Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) and member of the National System of Researchers (level II). He has a PhD in anthropological sciences from the UAM, an MA in visual anthropology from the University of Manchester, and a BA in ethnology from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH). He has been a visiting professor at the International School of Film and TV (Cuba), the University of Bremen (Germany), and the CCC Film Training Center (Mexico). He is the author and coordinator of numerous books and articles on visual anthropology, ethnographic cinema, documentary history, film ethnography, and film archives. As a photographer and documentary filmmaker, he has published two photo books; his collaborative films, made as part of the Homovidens collective, include Voces de la Guerrero (2004) and Fuera de foco (2013), both of which garnered major national and international recognition. For over twenty years, he has forged a solid career as a cultural manager and worked as a documentary film programmer at festivals such as DocsMX and Ambulante. From 2023 to 2025, he directed the House of the First Printing Press in the Americas, a cultural center and university film club run by the UAM in the historic downtown area of Mexico City.
