Ximena Cuevas
Nacimiento : 1963-01-01, Mexico City, Mexico
Historia
Ximena Cuevas (born 1963) is a Mexican videomaker and performance artist. Her work often explores the possibilities of the relationship between the social aspect and gender issues in contemporary society.
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A las puertas de la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1986, Carlos, un chico de diecisiete años, está más interesado en escuchar música y admirar a Rita, la hermana de su mejor amigo, Gera. Su vida monótona termina cuando la banda gótica de Rita les introduce a un club nocturno clandestino, "El Azteca". Ambos quedarán embelesados con este mundo de performances, ambigüedad sexual y drogas. Sin embargo, en esta exploración de sus nuevas identidades, también se pondrá a prueba su amistad.
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A principios de los años 70, se dio un fenómeno cinematográfico muy peculiar en México; la películas nacionales con temáticas ordinarias no lograban triunfar, y parecía que el séptimo arte en nuestro país se quedaría estancado en bodegas sin que nadie pudiera verlas, pero para fortuna de los productores y pervertidos mexicanos, llegó el cine de ficheras, filmes pícaros y de doble sentido que llegaron para conquistar las taquillas.
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"Perhaps Cuevas' most chilling work, Cinepolis forecasts an image-driven invasion of everyday life, picture-perfect and unnoticed. This alien intrusion comes in the form of a fully branded consumerscape that cheerily foists fast food along with the fantasy. Irreverent and biting, Cuevas fights back with the only weapon available--images of the enemy, and the enemy’s images." --Steve Seid, Pacific Film Archive, 2004
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Blind man: “It is bad to be alone.” The Creature: “Alone, bad.” —The Bride of Frankenstein It can be so bad to be alone that even an artificial heat is better than none.
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Take back the airwaves: Mexico’s video art doyenne Ximena Cuevas books herself onto the tabloid talk show Tombola, toying at first with whimsical deconstruction until she turns the whole affair on its head by seizing the televisual flow itself.
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La Puerta makes us spin out of control in the long and cruel corridors of an institutional nightmare.
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Una boda de clase alta en la Ciudad de México donde los invitados fantasean con el exótico paisaje de ensueño lejano que es su "Hawai".
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After working in solitude at the studio, the artist leaves, uncomfortable with the idea of having to put on a face for the art world, where they expect you to say something articulate in order to grab the curator's attention. - Video Data Bank
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After working in solitude at the studio, the artist leaves, uncomfortable with the idea of having to put on a face for the art world, where they expect you to say something articulate in order to grab the curator's attention. - Video Data Bank
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Cortometraje experimental de Ximena Cuevas.
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Cortometraje experimental de Ximena Cuevas.
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Cortometraje experimental de Ximena Cuevas.
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Dorothy doesn't reach her dream of the Emerald City. Rather, she will have already been over the rainbow by the time she arrives at the worst corner in Kansas.
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Los miembros de la congregación religiosa "Nueva Jerusalén" esperan la segunda venida de Cristo, de acuerdo con los dictados de sus líderes, papá Basilio y mamá Dorita. Al sentirse enferma y cansada, mamá Dorita cree encontrar en la joven Tomasa a la "elegida" para traer al mundo al nuevo hijo de Dios y convertirse en la cabeza espiritual de la comunidad.
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Through the montage of film fragments from the Mexican Golden Cinema, pain, violence, repressed sexuality and Mexicanness are explored. This production is part of a twelve-short film project entitled "Enredando Sombras".
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The palms of Lana Turner's hands were full of scars; the technique she used in order to achieve melodrama was to tighten her fists, digging her fingernails into them until she began to cry. Day after day, soap opera actresses smear Vick's Vaporub into their eyes in order to cry. The effect of these false tears are the tears of the public. In Devil in the Flesh we see the camera's tricks, and even so the action seems dramatic. This piece once again exemplifies my fascination with the artificial: the fabricated emotions; the Christian looking for pain in order to live out Passion; the discomfort of the everyday melodrama; the emptiness that defeats everything
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Cortometraje experimental de Ximena Cuevas.
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A video poem about the nature of social relations and mass media, Half Lies exposes the seemingly innocuous ways we distort truth. Harmonious families, trade treaties, and current events are among the mediated realities that Cuevas interrogates. Half Lies makes the viewer question the half truths we encounter daily. The video walks the haunting gray area between documentary and drama, creating a world that is both shockingly grotesque and startingly authentic. Using mass-mediated images, animation, image manipulation, and fantasy, Medias Mentiras interprets the chaotic landscape of politics, urban chaos and everyday existence.
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A short by Ximena Cuevas
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El 2 de octubre de 1968, un levantamiento estudiantil desciende a la violencia después de que el gobierno mexicano comienza a utilizar la fuerza letal contra los manifestantes.
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"La incomodidad en Dormimundo Volumen 1 es la de ser uno mismo. Los vídeos incluidos aquí analizan quiénes somos y qué imaginamos que somos. Son experimentos en apariencias, sobre el uso de artificios para mejorar la vida u ocultarla. Es una reflexión sobre el desplazamiento moral, la hipocresía, los sueños autónomos, el odio a sí mismo, la autodestrucción para matar repetidamente nuestros sueños.
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Cortometraje experimental de Ximena Cuevas.
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Cortometraje experimental de Ximena Cuevas.
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Cortometraje experimental de Ximena Cuevas.
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Cortometraje experimental de Ximena Cuevas.
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Cortometraje experimental de Ximena Cuevas.
