The Barragán House. A Universal Value

2011 | Color | 29 min

A walk through the house of architect Luis Barragán. The documentary explores the most intimate corners of the house, accompanied by the artist's poetic reflections. A key piece of contemporary architecture, very much a product of the twentieth century, the house has been included in UNESCO´s List of World Heritage Sites. The aim of this documentary is to show, in and out of Mexico, the universal legacy of Barragán.

Country: México
Direction: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic
Script: R. Mirabal; Enrique
Production: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic
Photography: Granillo; Guillermo, AMC, AEC;
Music: Ortiz; Gabriela, González de León; Emiliano, Sílberer; Déborah, S. Bach; J.
Participation year at FICM: 2012

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Bridget Tichenor. Visiones reales

In 2012, the Museum of Mexico City holds a major posthumous exhibition on Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917-1990), an English painter based in Mexico. Her friends, the artists Alan Glass and Pedro Friedeberg, visit the exhibition and comment on aspects of her work and life, such as her closeness to the European aristocracy and her time as a model and editor of Vogue in New York. She painted for 20 years on her ranch in Ario de Rosales, Michoacán.

Wolfgang Paalen. Cristales de la mente

The artist Wolfgang Paalen was born in Vienna in 1905. In 1936, he joined the Parisian Surrealist movement led by André Breton. At the invitation of Frida Kahlo, he settled in Mexico in 1939. As a painter, he underwent several stylistic stages and had a profound influence on the genesis of abstract expressionism. He committed suicide in 1959 in Taxco, Mexico.

The last witness

Leon Trotsky was granted political asylum in Mexico in 1937 after escaping Stalinist persecution. He lived in the neighborhood of Coyoacán, in Mexico City, where he wrote his last political works. His grandson Esteban Volkow is the last living witness of the two murder attempts and eventual assassination of his grandfather. Ninety-year-old Esteban recounts family life at the house, now a museum, and shares his memories of the revolutionary figure’s tragic end.