Image Pardo, Elena She studied communication at the Iberoamerican University (UIA), Mexico City, and specialized in contemporary art at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO) and at the La Curtiduría Contemporary Space for the Arts, Oaxaca. She received a scholarship from the Alfredo Harp Helú (FAHH) Foundation, Oaxaca, to attend the Clinics for Specialization in Contemporary Art in Oaxaca (CEACO). She also received a grant in 2013 for her project “Vistas oaxaqueñas” from the Program for the Artistic and Cultural Enrichment of Citizen Initiatives of the Secretary of Culture and the Arts of Oaxaca (SECULTA) and the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), Mexico. She has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). At the 2nd FICM, she competed with her documentary feature El rey de los coleaderos (2004), co-directed with Héctor Hernández Gutiérrez, for which she won a grant from the Promotion Program and Cultural Co-Investments of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico, and the Emerging Directors Award at the 12th San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), California. She won First Prize in the 3rd Experimental Video Competition, Baja California, Mexico, for her animated short film Juquilita (2004), which is part of the compilation of experimental cinema “Cine a contracorriente: Latinoamérica y España”, conducted by the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). She participated with her documentary short film Mi barrio (2009) in the 7th FICM, in the section “Cinema Without Borders,” and the 2nd Ambulante Documentary Tour, Mexico. This piece is part of filmmaker Jesse Lerner’s curatorial project, “Cine Povera”, (READY) MEDIA: Hacia una Arqueología de los Medios y la Invención en México, of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA), Mexico City. Other Movies 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 Related News A Closer Look at Mexican Experimental Cinema 04 · 28 · 15 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Pardo, Elena She studied communication at the Iberoamerican University (UIA), Mexico City, and specialized in contemporary art at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO) and at the La Curtiduría Contemporary Space for the Arts, Oaxaca. She received a scholarship from the Alfredo Harp Helú (FAHH) Foundation, Oaxaca, to attend the Clinics for Specialization in Contemporary Art in Oaxaca (CEACO). She also received a grant in 2013 for her project “Vistas oaxaqueñas” from the Program for the Artistic and Cultural Enrichment of Citizen Initiatives of the Secretary of Culture and the Arts of Oaxaca (SECULTA) and the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), Mexico. She has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). At the 2nd FICM, she competed with her documentary feature El rey de los coleaderos (2004), co-directed with Héctor Hernández Gutiérrez, for which she won a grant from the Promotion Program and Cultural Co-Investments of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico, and the Emerging Directors Award at the 12th San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), California. She won First Prize in the 3rd Experimental Video Competition, Baja California, Mexico, for her animated short film Juquilita (2004), which is part of the compilation of experimental cinema “Cine a contracorriente: Latinoamérica y España”, conducted by the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). She participated with her documentary short film Mi barrio (2009) in the 7th FICM, in the section “Cinema Without Borders,” and the 2nd Ambulante Documentary Tour, Mexico. This piece is part of filmmaker Jesse Lerner’s curatorial project, “Cine Povera”, (READY) MEDIA: Hacia una Arqueología de los Medios y la Invención en México, of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA), Mexico City.
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
