Baroque
A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'
Also Directed by Paul Leduc
Documentary short film winner of a couple of Ariel awards. It deals with "crowned nuns" or "portraits of crowned nuns," a pictorial genre of portraiture that emerged during the colonial period of New Spain in the 17th century.
Documentary short film about Enrique Cabrera Barroso, a Mexican university student leader of the 1968 student movement and member of the Mexican Communist Party.
A journey that begins in prehistory, passes through the Mesoamerican peoples, and shows the instruments that were used in the conquest and the colony, in order to learn about the evolution of Mexican music.
During the American invasion of Panama to oust General Noriega, a mambo dancer is raped by American soldiers. Based on a true incident. There is effectively no dialog in this film: Everything is communicated through dance or pantomime.
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Directed by Paul Leduc.
Documentary short film commissioned by the SEP. Plot unknown.
A compilation of 20 Mexican children's song, composed from 1850 to 1950, ranging from lyrical to surrealist, illustrated with digital animation.
Documentary short film commissioned by the SEP. Plot unknown.
A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.
