13 minutes of vintage Mexican film clips that will make you question everything you know about cinema history.
Through the montage of film fragments from the Mexican Golden Cinema, it explores the cinematographic representation of of pain, violence, repressed sexuality and Mexicanness.
Editing
Fernández Violante's surgical montage weaponizes nostalgia against itself.
Direction
Turns studio-era propaganda into radical queer-feminist critique.
Director
Marcela Fernández Violante
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 1990s Mexican experimental filmmakers who used found footage to confront official histories—Fernández Violante was among the few women granted access to Cineteca Nacional archives.
The title's 'present body' refers to Laura Mulvey's 'presence of the woman' as spectacle—here made literally present through violent juxtaposition of archival fragments that were never meant to touch.
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