Rita González, Jesse Lerner (Editors)

Cine Mexperimental Cinema: 60 años de medios de vanguardia en México / 60 Years of Avant-Garde Media Arts from Mexico.

Santa Monice: Smart Art Press, 1998. First edition. 1889195308 167 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Bilingual in Spanish and English.

Based on forums held in the spring of 1998 at Filmforum and at Huntington Beach Art Center.

Contents:

Shady Origins

Adolfo Best Maugard

Across the Pacific

Interlude

Essay on a film-maker

The underground

Experimental Cinema Competitions

From the Zona Rosa to the Holy Mountain

Let Us Not Forget

Supercheros

Video

Conclusions

ARTICLES

"Emilio Amero: Photography and Cinematography" by Carlos Mérida;

"The Evolution of Mexican Cinematography Humanity" by Diego Rivera;

"A Letter from Mexico or a Film Between Two Mafias" by Adolfas Mekas;

"The Secret Formula" by Juan Rulfo;

"Experimenting with Freedom in Mexico" by Vivian Lash;

"Towards the Fourth Cinema: Education as a Practice of Freedom" by Sergio García.

"A roller-skating nun prophesizes the death of rock’n’roll in spray paint on the walls of a Mexico City high-rise. The angular, succulent leaves of the maguey plant dance to the rhythm of Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony. A feminist prankster wreaks havoc in a monastic order by adding LSD to the friars’ drinking supply. A postmodern ranchera singer savors the taste of her own pumping heart. Mexican cinema is ripe with such subversive images: over the last sixty years scores of film- and video-makers have fractured narrative and toppled conventions in an avant-garde rebellion that has taken a myriad of subversive forms, and they are all sampled in this first-ever survey of experimental Mexican media arts."