Pola Weiss
Directing
Biography
Pola Weiss studied communication in Mexico City's most famous university: UNAM, graduating with the first video thesis. After that, she travelled around the world to study video, and returned to Mexico to create her first piece: Flor Cósmica. She continued making videoart, and although she was recognized as an important artist in Europe, her fame in Mexico started after her death.
Known For
The inspiring life and untimely death of a Mexican artist who, ahead of her time, saw the darkness in the light of the screen and responded by transforming it into art.
Pola Weiss
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Las tasas de interés
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Freud
Navideo, 9 min. experimental, l983
Navideo
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El Avión
The story of Merlín in an experimental manner.
Merlín
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Autovideato
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Inertia
Sketch experimental, 1985.
Sketch del fotógrafo Weegee
The brittleness of sensuality is caught in silk cloths and walls of tin-foil. Erotic visions guide the spectator along moments of love and orgasm up to the dramatic climax of birthgiving.
Exoego
TV UNAM’s posthumous tribute documentary program, produced shortly after her death, honors the work of pioneering Mexican video artist Pola Weiss.
Pola Weiss: Homenaje mínimo
A visual poem about the relation between a woman and a city. In this expressionistic piece of work emotional interplays are coloured with synthetic video...
Ciudad-Mujer-Ciudad
My Heart (1986)
Mi co-ra-zón
Pola Weiss' first videoart. It shows a series of images in shape of a flower with different colors with experimental techniques.
Flor Cosmica
Guanajuato, 1910.
Sketch del fotográfo Romualdo García
Salto, 13 min. experimental, l982
Salto
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El eclipse
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Ejercicio con Mo
Pola Weiss confronts monumental history with romanticized representations of indigeneity, exposing the myths embedded in Mexico’s visual culture. An experimental collage where images of the pyramids of Teotihuacán collide with the romanticized indigenous figures of Jesús Helguera.
Sol o Águila
A poetic video piece in which Weiss alternates between hand-held shots of women that are surviving in the streets of Mexico City and colourful, kaleidoscopic forms. In a very personal style she combines sound, color, abstractions, reportage, rhythm. A unique melange of realism, absurdism and fantastical, a sort of eerie fairytale that holds a profound social commentary. – Mila van der Weide