Juan José Gurrola

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To Kill a Stranger
5.1

To Kill a Stranger

Feb 06, 1986
Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
Crime
Frida, nature vivante
5.2

Frida, nature vivante

Mar 13, 1986
A l'aube de sa vie, la peintre mexicaine Frida Kahlo se rappelle des événements marquants : ses premières toiles, son amitié avec Trotsky, sa relation avec le peintre Diego Rivera, ses amours, ses engagements politiques...
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Descenso del pais de la noche
5.3
A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.
Drama
El Topo
7.1

El Topo

Dec 18, 1970
Hors-la-loi, El Topo défie pour l'amour d'une femme les Quatre Maîtres du Désert. Les ayant vaincus, sa conscience s'élève jusqu'à ce que sa femme le trahisse. Sa nouvelle vie d'homme saint commence alors et El Topo s'engage dans la libération d'une communauté de parias.
Adventure
Llámenme Mike
5.8

Llámenme Mike

Mar 07, 1979
After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
Crime
Robarte el arte
1

Robarte el arte

Mar 02, 1972
For Robarte el Arte [Stealing the Art] (1972), Juan José Gurrola together with Gelsen Gas and Arnaldo Coen supposedly stole an artwork during Documenta 5 in 1972 and represented it with an asterisk of scotch tape on a rock in the Wilhelmshöhe Park. Sequences of this performative action are montaged like in a silent movie with panels of cut-up newspaper text blocks, installation shots from the Documenta exhibition inside and outside Fridericianum, and scenes from a horror porn movie based on the story of the serial killer "Goyo" Cárdenas – his case became a sensation on Mexican media in the 1940s and inspired several copycat murderers imitating his crimes – and underscored with a dramatic soundtrack. With Robarte el Arte, the artists satirically destabilize Documenta’s institutionalized role to chart the current art developments and thus setting the foundation for a so-called canon as Eurocentric.
Los Bienamados
6.3

Los Bienamados

Sep 02, 1965
Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings.
Drama
Robarte el arte
1

Robarte el arte

Mar 02, 1972
For Robarte el Arte [Stealing the Art] (1972), Juan José Gurrola together with Gelsen Gas and Arnaldo Coen supposedly stole an artwork during Documenta 5 in 1972 and represented it with an asterisk of scotch tape on a rock in the Wilhelmshöhe Park. Sequences of this performative action are montaged like in a silent movie with panels of cut-up newspaper text blocks, installation shots from the Documenta exhibition inside and outside Fridericianum, and scenes from a horror porn movie based on the story of the serial killer "Goyo" Cárdenas – his case became a sensation on Mexican media in the 1940s and inspired several copycat murderers imitating his crimes – and underscored with a dramatic soundtrack. With Robarte el Arte, the artists satirically destabilize Documenta’s institutionalized role to chart the current art developments and thus setting the foundation for a so-called canon as Eurocentric.
Los Bienamados
6.3

Los Bienamados

Sep 02, 1965
Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings.
Drama
Descenso del pais de la noche
5.3
A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.
Drama
Alberto Gironella
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Alberto Gironella

Oct 13, 1965
Alberto Gironella was a Mexican plastic artist, considered one of the exponents of La Ruptura.
Documentary
Tajimara
6

Tajimara

Sep 02, 1965
First of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). It narrates the encounters and misunderstandings of a pair of lovers during the years, from their adolescence to maturity.
Drama
Tajimara
6

Tajimara

Sep 02, 1965
First of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). It narrates the encounters and misunderstandings of a pair of lovers during the years, from their adolescence to maturity.
Drama