Gloria Contreras

Birth : 1934-11-15, Mexico City, Mexico

Death : 2015-11-25

History

Gloria Contreras was a Mexican dancer and choreographer.

Movies

Signos de vida y rebeldía
Herself
Documentary following Gloria Contreras, a dancer, choreographer and pedagogue, as she manages her own dance company.
I Am Happiness on Earth
Herself
Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.
Santa sangre
Rubi
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.