Luis Vargas Santa Cruz
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Biography
Considered the painter of the Guerrero Dirty War, Luis Vargas Santa Cruz is an expressionist painter, film director, producer and screenwriter. His film work oscillates between film essay, experimental, poetry film and hybrid. He's an mexican artist who has embraced the total art. Like painter, his work is fundamental in the history of mexican art, with pictorial series like The expulsion from paradise, Aicus Arreug, Aznad Etreum and Imaginary Landscapes. Three of his most internationally known works are In the name of the father, No name and The absinthe drinker. His films have been presented at film festivals in Spain, Italy and Mexico.
Known For
After receiving a phone call, a man feels his inner world come to a standstill. Recalling the event decades later, he relives how everything changed in that moment and reflects on how quickly his life has passed and how his reality was constructed by all the things he repeated to himself like a mantra.
Dual
Short film based on the exhibition "Otra vez Guernica", by Edmundo Font. (non-profit audiovisual work, where the work of the plastic artist Edmundo Font is presented with support material to contextualize his work in the event of the bombing of Guernica and the subsequent mural by Picasso.
Work in action: Guernica's de Font
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Edmundo Font: Ojo de cíclope tras las meninas
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La vehemencia de la luna
Audiovisual journey that through sequences of images and detailed plans with a camera in hand accompanied by sound games evoke loneliness. The protagonists discover an intermittent and trembling moon, but also plant and animal voices. It is a short film that talks about the strangeness of perception and how childhood time passes in the recognition of the other and of oneself.
Paráxeni
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El fin del mundo
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