2012 | Color | 61 min The documentary weaves the intimate love stories of three women from different generations: an adolescent, a middle-aged divorcee, and my 90-year-old Great Aunt. Through a careful exploration of space and color, inspired by technicolor melodramas of the 40s and 50s, I trace their experience, exploring the rooms they inhabit and the memories that remain in them, extracting their voice and their loves from a rich texture of archival material. Country: México Direction: Portillo Padua; Otilia Script: Portillo Padua; Otilia Production: Portillo Padua; Otilia Photography: Castillo; Erick Sound: Molina; Miguel Ángel Participation year at FICM: 2012
2012 | Color | 61 min The documentary weaves the intimate love stories of three women from different generations: an adolescent, a middle-aged divorcee, and my 90-year-old Great Aunt. Through a careful exploration of space and color, inspired by technicolor melodramas of the 40s and 50s, I trace their experience, exploring the rooms they inhabit and the memories that remain in them, extracting their voice and their loves from a rich texture of archival material. Country: México Direction: Portillo Padua; Otilia Script: Portillo Padua; Otilia Production: Portillo Padua; Otilia Photography: Castillo; Erick Sound: Molina; Miguel Ángel Participation year at FICM: 2012
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More
Yolanda Montes “Tongolele”, diosa de la danza 02 · 18 · 25 PEPE EL TORO appears in Cahiers 02 · 13 · 25 David Lynch (1946-2025), Mexico and a Lynchian Anecdote 01 · 23 · 25 MÉXICO, MÉXICO, RA, RA, RA, RA after half a century 01 · 16 · 25
