Ximena Cuevas

Ximena Cuevas

出生 : 1963-01-01, Mexico City, Mexico

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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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Ximena Cuevas

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This Is Not Berlin
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Seventeen-year-old Carlos doesn't fit in anywhere, not in his family nor with the friends he has chosen in school. But everything changes when he is invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground LGBTQ nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty and drugs.
夜を彩るショーガール
Editor
ディスコ全盛の時代、メキシコの夜を彩ったショーガールたちが、当時の映像を交えながら過去の思い出を振り返る。彼女たちの過去と現在に迫ったドキュメンタリー。
Cinepolis, the Film Capital
Director
"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
Staying Alive
Director
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.
La Tombola
Director
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.
The Door
Director
La Puerta makes us spin out of control in the long and cruel corridors of an institutional nightmare.
Hawai
Director
An upper class wedding in Mexico City where the guests fantasize about the exotic faraway dreamscape that is their “Hawai”.
Contemporary Artist
Editor
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
Contemporary Artist
Director
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
Natural Instincts
Editor
Short experimental horror documentary on media racism
Natural Instincts
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Short experimental horror documentary on media racism
We’re Here to Serve You
Director
Kansas Avenue
Director
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.
Divine
Editor
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".
Of Present Body (or the perpetual spirals of pleasure and power)
Editor
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".
Diablo en la Piel
Director
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
Cuerpos de papel
Director
Mixing samba, sex, and lovers' lies, this beautiful short is a visual meditation on sexuality, loss, jealousy, and intimacy.
Half-Lies
Director
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.
Víctimas del Pecado Neoliberal
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Parrot's Saliva
Director
A short by Ximena Cuevas
Red Dawn
Script
On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.
Dormimundo
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SOMEONE BEHIND THE DOOR
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Las tres muertes de Lupe
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Destino
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Cama
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Alma gemela
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