Executive Producer
A FICUNAM commission for four directors, Liminal seeks to play with poetic affinities between film and music. Moving across aesthetic and generational differences, the film-makers explore this relationship through four distinct stories as to context and imaginary.
Writer
La historia de amor de Jonathan y Yesi, dos recolectores de basura que trabajan bajo el mando despótico y violento del Maestro Clean, siempre seguido de cerca por mamá, una coleccionista que limpia silenciosamente y de forma fantasmal las calles de la ciudad. Una noche, mientras hacen su trabajo, encuentran el cadáver de un hombre con dinero. Master Clean toma una terrible decisión. Jonathan y Yesi planean su escape. Se avecina una tragedia.
Director
La historia de amor de Jonathan y Yesi, dos recolectores de basura que trabajan bajo el mando despótico y violento del Maestro Clean, siempre seguido de cerca por mamá, una coleccionista que limpia silenciosamente y de forma fantasmal las calles de la ciudad. Una noche, mientras hacen su trabajo, encuentran el cadáver de un hombre con dinero. Master Clean toma una terrible decisión. Jonathan y Yesi planean su escape. Se avecina una tragedia.
Associate Producer
A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes
Thanks
In the eyes of a foreigner practically any street of Mexico City’s Centro Histórico holds potential for a film. Life on the street deserves more than just the natural condition of observer anyone could have, it demands an extra attention. In a 100-meter radius, the sociological exuberance of the events going on is simply impossible to ignore. The street is a mise en scène in itself.
Editor
Tracking an old man (with a truly Bela Tarr-like persistence) through the streets and bars, and porn cinemas, and taco-joints, of Mexico City on what might be the pensioner's last day on Earth, Critic/curator-turned-film-director Lipkes has crafted an undeniably challenging but beautifully realised vision of modern loneliness.
Screenplay
Tracking an old man (with a truly Bela Tarr-like persistence) through the streets and bars, and porn cinemas, and taco-joints, of Mexico City on what might be the pensioner's last day on Earth, Critic/curator-turned-film-director Lipkes has crafted an undeniably challenging but beautifully realised vision of modern loneliness.
Director
Tracking an old man (with a truly Bela Tarr-like persistence) through the streets and bars, and porn cinemas, and taco-joints, of Mexico City on what might be the pensioner's last day on Earth, Critic/curator-turned-film-director Lipkes has crafted an undeniably challenging but beautifully realised vision of modern loneliness.
Writer
A boy lives with an old man in a small house, he takes good care of him and watches sadistic cartoons on Tv. One day the old man dies, the kid is left alone.
Director
A boy lives with an old man in a small house, he takes good care of him and watches sadistic cartoons on Tv. One day the old man dies, the kid is left alone.
