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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and Héctor Orozco inaugurated the Photographic Exhibition "Nazarín, fotografías de Manuel Álvarez Bravo"

Aranza Flores @Alvayeah

The vice president of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel, in company with curator Héctor Orozco, inaugurated the Photographic Exhibition Nazarín of the Televisa Foundation Collection and Archive of Manuel Álvarez Bravo. This exhibition takes place in the Benito Juárez Plaza.

Since the year 2012, the FICM in collaboration with Televisa Foundation, takes over this public space to present exhibitions related to Mexican classical cinema, to invite society to learn more about its history.

The exhibition talks about Álvarez Bravo’s work for the film Nazarín by Spanish director Luis Buñuel. The Televisa Foundation preserves more than 600 negatives of this film; the square format appreciated in the photographs is the one that the photographer preferred to use, so it is material in an original format.

At the event, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel expressed the importance of this exhibition because “Manuel Álvarez Bravo is one of those artists who made us who we are. Who built part of our collective imagination.”

Héctor Orozco, who was in charge of giving the tour to the attendees, complemented the significance of Álvarez Bravo’s existing archive, and added that “on this occasion, we had the opportunity to present this photographer’s passage through cinema, which is so important in the history of this country and known very little. He even accompanied great stars like Pedro Infante and María Félix.”

Lastly, the vice president of the FICM emphasized that “in this case, to be bonded to Luis Buñuel and Nazarín, takes another dimension that it is very important to show in the festival: Álvarez Bravo’s relationship with cinema. To us it is a pleasure that this can be seen on the streets of Morelia.”

On this edition of the Festival, Nazarín was presented in its restored version by the UNAM Film Library, together with the Televisa Foundation, the Cineteca Nacional and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project de L’Immagine Ritrovata, as part of the program dedicated to the Spanish exiles who arrived in Mexico during the Civil War. This restored version had only been screened before at the most recent edition of the Cannes Festival.