2013 | Color | 21 min Once the waterfall El Salto de Juanacatlán was called "the Mexican Niagara." The arrival of industry and its disposal of toxic pollutants destroyed the tributary of the Río Santiago, polluting the entire river. For the past 30 years, a family— Graciela, Enrique and their daughter Sofía—has fought against the indifference of authorities and the impunity of companies to rescue what once was a river full of life. Country: México Direction: Polgovsky; Eugenio Script: Polgovsky; Eugenio Production: Films; Tecolote Photography: Polgovsky; Eugenio Sound: Nieto; Marcelo Music: Castaños; Alejandro, Castores; Los Participation year at FICM: 2013
2013 | Color | 21 min Once the waterfall El Salto de Juanacatlán was called "the Mexican Niagara." The arrival of industry and its disposal of toxic pollutants destroyed the tributary of the Río Santiago, polluting the entire river. For the past 30 years, a family— Graciela, Enrique and their daughter Sofía—has fought against the indifference of authorities and the impunity of companies to rescue what once was a river full of life. Country: México Direction: Polgovsky; Eugenio Script: Polgovsky; Eugenio Production: Films; Tecolote Photography: Polgovsky; Eugenio Sound: Nieto; Marcelo Music: Castaños; Alejandro, Castores; Los Participation year at FICM: 2013
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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