2006 | Color | 55 min The world of the surrealist Canadian artist Alan Glass: his work, his home, his friends, his boxes, his entire universe is shown through the point of view of art critics, artists and friends. Behind a glass and within an infinite number of boxes, Alan freezes, removes and modifies time. Country: México Direction: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Script: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Production: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Photography: Polgovsky; Eugenio Music: Roel; Karen Cast:Felguérez; Manuel, Carrington; Leonora, Glass; Alan, Friedeberg; Pedro Participation year at FICM: 2006
2006 | Color | 55 min The world of the surrealist Canadian artist Alan Glass: his work, his home, his friends, his boxes, his entire universe is shown through the point of view of art critics, artists and friends. Behind a glass and within an infinite number of boxes, Alan freezes, removes and modifies time. Country: México Direction: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Script: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Production: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Photography: Polgovsky; Eugenio Music: Roel; Karen Cast:Felguérez; Manuel, Carrington; Leonora, Glass; Alan, Friedeberg; Pedro Participation year at FICM: 2006
Bridget Tichenor. Visiones reales In 2012, the Museum of Mexico City holds a major posthumous exhibition on Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917-1990), an English painter based in Mexico. Her friends, the artists Alan Glass and Pedro Friedeberg, visit the exhibition and comment on aspects of her work and life, such as her closeness to the European aristocracy and her time as a model and editor of Vogue in New York. She painted for 20 years on her ranch in Ario de Rosales, Michoacán. See More
Wolfgang Paalen. Cristales de la mente The artist Wolfgang Paalen was born in Vienna in 1905. In 1936, he joined the Parisian Surrealist movement led by André Breton. At the invitation of Frida Kahlo, he settled in Mexico in 1939. As a painter, he underwent several stylistic stages and had a profound influence on the genesis of abstract expressionism. He committed suicide in 1959 in Taxco, Mexico. See More
The last witness Leon Trotsky was granted political asylum in Mexico in 1937 after escaping Stalinist persecution. He lived in the neighborhood of Coyoacán, in Mexico City, where he wrote his last political works. His grandson Esteban Volkow is the last living witness of the two murder attempts and eventual assassination of his grandfather. Ninety-year-old Esteban recounts family life at the house, now a museum, and shares his memories of the revolutionary figure’s tragic end. See More
The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26 Visit the Beaches of Michoacán 10 · 29 · 26 The 24th FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 12 10 · 23 · 26 LOS LOBOS: NATIVE SONS by Piero F. Giunti and Doug Blush Screened at the 24th FICM 10 · 23 · 26
The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26
