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Mateo Vargas

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Mateo Vargas is a queer non-binary Mexican filmmaker and visual artist whose multi-media work focuses on the intersections and fractures of identity, borders, and diaspora under the dual legacies of colonialism and late-stage capitalism. Their video art has screened in festivals and galleries in Mexico, Japan, Colombia, Cuba, Argentina, Russia, Germany, Greece, Italy, France, Spain, the U.S. and the U.K.

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Filmes

Someday It Will Fall

Director

From the mouth of the Rio Grande to the beaches of Tijuana, two girls play on separate ends of the U.S. Mexico border thousands of miles apart.

500 Years Later

Director

A short city symphony evocation of present day Mexico City five hundred years after the invasion of the Spanish and the fall of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.

1312

Director

Facts about American police officers

Assimilation Memories

Director

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

Bay

Director

A short narrative set in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. A mysterious figure emerges from the waters of the bay. Could she be the legendary "la escondida" for whom the Mexican port town is named?

Black Waters

Director

“Aguas Negras” (“Black Waters” or “Sewage”) is an experimental documentary about the Cuautitlán River that runs through the State of Mexico. The film examines the passage of time and the pollution of the river by focusing on conversations with multiple generations of women that have grown up on its banks.

Return

Director

Set in Central America, the story follows a character on a dream like journey through the rainforest in search of a return to the original source of life.

Return

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Set in Central America, the story follows a character on a dream like journey through the rainforest in search of a return to the original source of life.