Rafael Corkidi
Nacimiento : 1930-05-20, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Muerte : 1930-09-18
Historia
Rafael Corkidi Acriche (May 20, 1930 - September 18, 2013) was a Mexican filmmaker and videographer who collaborated, as director of photography with Alejandro Jodorowsky in the tapes Fando and Lis (1968), El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain(1973).
He was the director of the first Mexican and Latin American feature film made entirely in video format, Figures of Passion (1983).
Director
Three stories, each one with a teacher as the protagonist of the struggle against the many deficiencies of our country's educational system. The first story, Memorial of a Madman, is a testimony to the marginalized education offered in our rural communities. The Mission deals with the expulsion and death of the Jesuit teaching missionaries. The third one, The Prodigious Teacher, tells of the persecution and imprisonment of the free students and prodigious teachers of 1968.
Screenplay
Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child.
Director
Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child.
Director
Mexican feature film
Cinematography
This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.
Writer
This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.
Director
This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.
Cinematography
Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.
Art Direction
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)
Cinematography
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)
Producer
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)
Writer
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)
Director
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)
Director of Photography
El realismo, —casi naturalismo— con arrebatos poéticos del original literario se convierte en estilización y vehículo de las obsesiones místico-revolucionaristas del cineasta y en una continuación de sus búsquedas formales. Deseos es un filme irritante y narcisista que se distingue por su riqueza visual y sus hallazgos en el campo audiovisual. Estuvo prohibida casi seis años, en parte por cuestiones de censura, y en parte por la solemnidad y renuencia del autor de la novela original, quien se sentía traicionado al trastocar el filme el sentido de su obra.
Writer
El realismo, —casi naturalismo— con arrebatos poéticos del original literario se convierte en estilización y vehículo de las obsesiones místico-revolucionaristas del cineasta y en una continuación de sus búsquedas formales. Deseos es un filme irritante y narcisista que se distingue por su riqueza visual y sus hallazgos en el campo audiovisual. Estuvo prohibida casi seis años, en parte por cuestiones de censura, y en parte por la solemnidad y renuencia del autor de la novela original, quien se sentía traicionado al trastocar el filme el sentido de su obra.
Director
El realismo, —casi naturalismo— con arrebatos poéticos del original literario se convierte en estilización y vehículo de las obsesiones místico-revolucionaristas del cineasta y en una continuación de sus búsquedas formales. Deseos es un filme irritante y narcisista que se distingue por su riqueza visual y sus hallazgos en el campo audiovisual. Estuvo prohibida casi seis años, en parte por cuestiones de censura, y en parte por la solemnidad y renuencia del autor de la novela original, quien se sentía traicionado al trastocar el filme el sentido de su obra.
Cinematography
People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, the locals often break out of ethnic song and dance. While tracking a fascist military and his girlfriend to him..
Writer
People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, the locals often break out of ethnic song and dance. While tracking a fascist military and his girlfriend to him..
Director
People's hero is Anapu... He extracts the water from a rock, befriends, and baptize and get it to Mary Magdalene, konsolerar the oppressed, makes peace with the warring brothers, raises the dead, licking men and women clean. In between, he makes a lot of soul searching as he wanders through the village, mingling with the various common folk and natives, and discuss their problems, future hazards and their lack of unity, the locals often break out of ethnic song and dance. While tracking a fascist military and his girlfriend to him..
Director of Photography
Biopic: el último año más o menos en la vida de Felipe Carrillo Puerto, gobernador de Yucatán a principios de la década de 1920.
Director
A 30 minute short directed by Rafael Cordiki. Plot unavailable at this time
Cinematography
In the future, a couple hides from their pursuers in the archaeological ruins of Tulúm, on the beaches of Cozumel, and in the hubbub of a day out in an indigenous town.
Director of Photography
Un maestro mexicano lleva una figura de Cristo y otros discípulos a una montaña de sabios inmortales. El escándalo del Festival de Cine de Cannes de 1973, la inundación de imágenes sacrílegas y simbolismo existencial de Alejandro Jodorowsky en The Holy Mountain es una búsqueda espiritual de la iluminación que enfrenta la ilusión de la verdad. El Alquimista (Jodorowsky) reúne a un grupo de personas de todos los ámbitos de la vida para representar a los planetas en el sistema solar. La intención del adepto oculto es someter a sus reclutas a extraños ritos místicos y despojarlos de su equipaje mundano antes de embarcarse en un viaje a la isla de Lotus. Allí ascienden la Montaña Sagrada para desplazar a los dioses inmortales que gobiernan secretamente el universo.
Director of Photography
Basada en "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather" de Edgar Allan Poe. Un periodista francés del Siglo XIX descubre que un asilo ha sido tomado por uno de sus pacientes dementes, que ha permitido que sus compañeros hagan realidad sus fantasías.
Director of Photography
En un prólogo Dios crea a la niña Eva y ella a Adán. Ambos descubren que el Paraíso es falso y le prenden fuego. Luego emigran al mundo. En un época indeterminada y en apariencia feliz el rico joven Cristián se enamora de Ángela. En la víspera de su boda ella está a punto de morir. Ella posee y despierta débil y con heridas en el cuello. Después de la boda es sacrificado por ella, que es un vampiro. En el epílogo Adán y Eva llaman a asaltar el Edén para acabar con los males del mundo.
Director
En un prólogo Dios crea a la niña Eva y ella a Adán. Ambos descubren que el Paraíso es falso y le prenden fuego. Luego emigran al mundo. En un época indeterminada y en apariencia feliz el rico joven Cristián se enamora de Ángela. En la víspera de su boda ella está a punto de morir. Ella posee y despierta débil y con heridas en el cuello. Después de la boda es sacrificado por ella, que es un vampiro. En el epílogo Adán y Eva llaman a asaltar el Edén para acabar con los males del mundo.
Cinematography
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.
Director
A surrealist musical short, featuring folkloric dance and stark Mexican landscapes, in honor of the 1972 World Cup.
Director of Photography
En un Oeste imaginario, el pistolero Topo se enfrenta a una banda de fetichistas, dirigida por un coronel lascivo, que tiene atemorizada a una congregación franciscana. Singular y provocativa película de culto, mezcla de géneros y movimientos culturales. John Lennon dijo de ella que era una obra maestra.
Fando's Father / Well-Dressed Man with Beard (uncredited)
La opera prima de Alejandro Jodorowsky es un cuento bizarro de inocencia corrompida, amor sadomasoquista e inalcanzable paraíso. Basada en la obra homónima de Fernando Arrabal, cuenta la historia de una joven pareja en busca de la ciudad encantada de Tar, donde se encuentra el éxtasis espiritual. Fando es impotente y Lis está paralítica.
Director of Photography
La opera prima de Alejandro Jodorowsky es un cuento bizarro de inocencia corrompida, amor sadomasoquista e inalcanzable paraíso. Basada en la obra homónima de Fernando Arrabal, cuenta la historia de una joven pareja en busca de la ciudad encantada de Tar, donde se encuentra el éxtasis espiritual. Fando es impotente y Lis está paralítica.
Cinematography
The Mexican Gelsen Gas side by side with Alexandro Jodorowsky (Fando y Lis, El Topo, The Holy Mountain and others) appeared as a theater director, artist and poet, had an idea about staging haiku's that would reflect the sexually-charged and politically streaming time. Early in the film finds a man buried a few rolls of film in the desert.
Cinematography
Documentary depicting Mexican society, in honor of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. With a prologue by José Revueltas.
Writer
Documentary depicting Mexican society, in honor of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. With a prologue by José Revueltas.
Director
Documentary depicting Mexican society, in honor of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. With a prologue by José Revueltas.
Cinematography
When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.
Cinematography
Dos historias sobre la imposibilidad de amar en un mundo moderno lleno de desencanto. En Tajimara, el reencuentro entre Cecilia y Roberto se ve ensombrecido por el recuerdo de un pasado más inocente y por la presencia de Guillermo, un antiguo amor de Cecilia. La importancia de esta relación pasa a un segundo plano cuando Roberto devela la callada pasión que existe entre su amigo Carlos y Julia, la hermana de éste. Un alma pura retoma el tema del amor prohibido entre dos hermanos, Claudia y Juan Luis, quienes han puesto tierra de por medio a su pasión, tratando de evitar un trágico destino.
Cinematography
An experimental film in which time breaks again and again at the moment of death, where the seconds become whole lives condemned.
