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Gabriel Herrera Torres

Gabriel Herrera Torres

Directing

Biography

Gabriel Herrera Torres is a mexican director, graduated from the University Center for Cinematographic Studies (CUEC, UNAM) in 2010 and with a master's degree in film direction from the Polish National Film School (PWSFTviT). He has made several short films and currently teaches film, works on social and ecological documentaries and is making PHD studies focusing on philosophy and film theory. He has taken part in different programs and residencies over the years, and his short films have been shown and awarded in several film festivals, such as Berlin International Film Festival.

Known For

Word Puzzle for an Empty House
N/A

Effort to construct an audio-visual dance between the body of an 90-year old man and the body of his house, that has become an extension of himself.

Word Puzzle for an Empty House

2008
First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room
N/A

Don Plascencio has a collection of men he uses like radio stations: in a routine aural examination each man plays a different musical piece instead of the usual heartbeat.

First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room

2008
Margarethe Doesn’t Want to be Seen Dancing
N/A

It is the European Middle Ages. Ana’s mother is out in the street and, for no apparent reason, has started to dance. Ana feels deeply humiliated by her mother’s unexplainable behavior. To make matters worse, her mother keeps dancing without stopping for several days, and eventually other people start joining her without giving any explanation. Mortifed by embarrassment, Ana and other teenagers in the village try everything to distance themselves from the adult dancers; but the grown-ups seem determined to make fools of themselves, and to carry everything along with them while landscape, plants, animals, and social roles seem to turn ridiculous as well.

Margarethe Doesn’t Want to be Seen Dancing

Requiem for Eternity
N/A

In August 2007, after some medical studies, I was diagnosed with bone cancer. This movie is based on my memories of those days.

Requiem for Eternity

2011
Time and Memory
N/A

A film essay that explores the relationship between film and memory, based on the personal memoir of the director. An autobiographical attempt to analyze this relationship going from the individual to the collective. From Chris Marker to Hitchcock and on to Kennedy´s assassination, passing through Fritz Lang and Bruce Willis, the memory of the images is fused with our own story, until they cannot be separated.

Time and Memory

2012
Motorcyclist's Happiness Won't Fit Into His Suit
5.8

A young motorcyclist rides and rides in circles on his motorcycle. The more he rides, the more beautiful he gets. Is his beauty his, or does his beauty belongs to the others? Is he playing the game of the world, or is the world playing his game? Where does he ends and the world begins? Is he inside of himself or is he outside of himself? And is there such a thing as being "inside" or "outside" when you are THIS beautiful?

Motorcyclist's Happiness Won't Fit Into His Suit

2021
Tears
N/A

A film about the inability to make a decision. A world filled with possibilities and a lost heroine who may not want to choose at all.

Tears

2025
A Boat
N/A

Playful portrait of a group of men trying to build an impossible object.

A Boat

2016
Floating World
N/A

After returning to her childhood home, Sofia faces the challenge of living day after day, immersed in a vicious circle where the world seems to stop and where the most important thing is to live hedonistically. However, Sofia will sooner or later have to face the real reason that keeps her trapped in her own life, escaping the conflict that she does not want to face.

Floating World

2008
La rueda conoce mi nombre
N/A

Portrait of Mexico City. Center of chaos. Anonymous crosses each other, self-absorbed in their daily life and existence. She is in movement, he is in paralysis. Both living in the past, evading the present. They inhabit the realm of cycles trying to free themselves from attachment and suffering. Movement and paralysis intertwine in a city trapped in the cycles of earthly and recurrent existence.

La rueda conoce mi nombre

2024
How to Reach God Through Proper Exercising
8.0

In a local sports center, a man with a great need to talk but little to say recounts a recent dream to a nearby colleague, with deeply confusing and unexpected results.

How to Reach God Through Proper Exercising

2016
Toothless
N/A

Clara looses one tooth while sleeping. Swallowed by a gigantic mouth, she enters an underground world where a Surreal Sci Fi advertising invites her to "ELECTRODENT" a clinic that promises to fix teeth... but not only.

Toothless

2021