A roller-skating nun spraypaints prophecies of the death of rock'n'roll
on the walls of Mexico City high-rises. The angular, succulent leaves
of the maguey plant dance to the rhythm of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony. A
feminist prankster wreaks havoc in a monastic order by adding LSD to the
friars' drinking supply. A postmodern ranchera singer savors the taste of
her own
pumping heart. Mexican cinema is capable such subversive images.
Over the period of sixty years scores of film and video makers
fractured narrative and toppled conventions in an avant-garde
rebellion which took a myriad of forms, sampled in this first
ever survey of experimental Mexican media arts.
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