2008 | Color | 1h 30 min From a very young age, children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. The Inheritors is a journey through their lives and their daily struggle for survival. These children´s realities echo those of their ancestors. One generation after another remains caught up in a perpetual cycle of inherited poverty. Country: México Direction: Polgovsky; Eugenio Script: Polgovsky; Eugenio Production: Polgovsky; Eugenio Photography: Polgovsky; Eugenio Sound: Manzutto; Cristian, Tauss; Camille Music: Mixe De Oaxaca; Banda Participation year at FICM: 2008
2008 | Color | 1h 30 min From a very young age, children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. The Inheritors is a journey through their lives and their daily struggle for survival. These children´s realities echo those of their ancestors. One generation after another remains caught up in a perpetual cycle of inherited poverty. Country: México Direction: Polgovsky; Eugenio Script: Polgovsky; Eugenio Production: Polgovsky; Eugenio Photography: Polgovsky; Eugenio Sound: Manzutto; Cristian, Tauss; Camille Music: Mixe De Oaxaca; Banda Participation year at FICM: 2008
Malintzin 17 Minimalist in resources and filmed from the unusual vantage point of a second-floor flat window, Malintzin 17 portrays two parallel expressions of parental care. For seven days and seven nights, filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky and his five-year-old daughter Milena watch a pigeon tending her chick in a dangerous tangle of electrical wires just outside their balcony. See More
Lightbyrinth A work of video art inspired by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell; the piece is part of a special initiative to celebrate the opening of the Maxwell Centre. Using Maxwell’s original equipment, including his zoetrope (an animation device), Polgovsky explores the nature of light and perceptions of color in Lightbyrinth. See More
Trópico de Cáncer At the latitude of the Tropic of Cancer in the desert of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, many families survive by hunting animals and selling them along the highway. See More
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