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Arturo López Barrera

López Barrera; Arturo "Pio"

Arturo López "Pío" is a Mexican visual artist and puppeteer. Across a professional career of more than thirty years, he has created projects that combine plastic arts, puppetry, cinema, and performing arts. His artistic training has been connected with artists such as Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Enrique Garnica, and Patricio Guzmán. 
In 2003, together with Julieta Tabbush, he began the development of CINEMANO—a project of pictorial and performative experimentation that creates visual narratives in real time through drawings, paintings, and large-scale projections. The technique incorporates elements including ink, sand, water, oil, objects, and articulated flat puppets, turning the creative process into part of the performance.
With CINEMANO, he has had the opportunity to perform in venues such as Palacio de Bellas Artes, Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, and Sala Nezahualcóyotl. He has also presented his work in countries like Japan, China, South Korea, Austria, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Argentina, and the United States. In addition to this, he has also participated in art residencies in Nanto, Japan, and Krems, Austria.

Other Movies

If I Were Fire

Si yo fuese fuego
Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More

Lives on the Border

Vidas en la orilla
Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More

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Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More

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