Pablo Martínez-Zárate

Pablo Martínez-Zárate

Nascimento : , Mexico City, Mexico

História

Artist and researcher. Professor at the Communications Department of Iberoamericana University, where he coordinates the photography lab and is head of the Master in Film programme. Pablo’s work bridges memory, territory and identity through film, photography, multimedia and writing. He has exhibited individually at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Interactive Museum of Economics, Spain’s Cultural Center in Mexico and Mexico’s National Museum of Art. Amongst his films are Ciudad Merced (2013), La Película (2014), So Much Light (2015) and The Monopoly of Memory (2018). His multimedia work includes pieces such as the web-documentaries Santos Diableros & Momento MX , and the interactive poem and installation Poema Panorama. His films have been screened in over 10 countries, he has published novel, poetry and essay, being his most recent book The Powers of the Image: Body and Death in the Audiovisual Culture (Ibero, 2018). He has received awards in Brazil, India, USA and Mexico. Since 2014, he is partner of longtime filmmaker Gregorio Rocha in a film preservation and lab-museum called Anarchivia, located in the world famous Estudios Churubusco. He has published novel, poetry and essay, and writes for magazines and websites in Mexico and abroad. In 2016, as professor at Ibero University, he founded the Laboratorio Iberoamericano de Documental (Iberoamerican Documentary Lab), which he heads since. He has been guest lecturer and speaker at EICTV Cuba, University of Southern California, Emerson College Boston, Zurich University of the Arts, University of Copenhagen, among others . He is a member of the Iberoamerican Chair in Transmedia Narratives and of the Memory Studies Association. He holds an MSc. by Research in Digital Media and Culture by the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Media by Universidad Iberoamericana.

Perfil

Pablo Martínez-Zárate

Filmes

La memoria se filtró por una grieta
Producer
Film shot on 16 mm that works as an essay on memory and territory from Xochimilco, through the transformation of the landscape of the Valley of Mexico and the organization of communal life after the earthquake of September 19, 2017.
La memoria se filtró por una grieta
Screenplay
Film shot on 16 mm that works as an essay on memory and territory from Xochimilco, through the transformation of the landscape of the Valley of Mexico and the organization of communal life after the earthquake of September 19, 2017.
La memoria se filtró por una grieta
Director of Photography
Film shot on 16 mm that works as an essay on memory and territory from Xochimilco, through the transformation of the landscape of the Valley of Mexico and the organization of communal life after the earthquake of September 19, 2017.
La memoria se filtró por una grieta
Director
Film shot on 16 mm that works as an essay on memory and territory from Xochimilco, through the transformation of the landscape of the Valley of Mexico and the organization of communal life after the earthquake of September 19, 2017.
El Monopolio de la Memoria
Editor
This film takes a dive into a photographic archive that portrays the 1968 student movement in Mexico. By reviewing over 1300 photographs of students, soldiers and citizens, and the development of a movement inside the Mexican capital, marked by the massive uprisings and the government's repression, the film questions the relationship between memory, power and representation.
El Monopolio de la Memoria
Voz
This film takes a dive into a photographic archive that portrays the 1968 student movement in Mexico. By reviewing over 1300 photographs of students, soldiers and citizens, and the development of a movement inside the Mexican capital, marked by the massive uprisings and the government's repression, the film questions the relationship between memory, power and representation.
El Monopolio de la Memoria
Screenplay
This film takes a dive into a photographic archive that portrays the 1968 student movement in Mexico. By reviewing over 1300 photographs of students, soldiers and citizens, and the development of a movement inside the Mexican capital, marked by the massive uprisings and the government's repression, the film questions the relationship between memory, power and representation.
El Monopolio de la Memoria
Director
This film takes a dive into a photographic archive that portrays the 1968 student movement in Mexico. By reviewing over 1300 photographs of students, soldiers and citizens, and the development of a movement inside the Mexican capital, marked by the massive uprisings and the government's repression, the film questions the relationship between memory, power and representation.
SOS MX
Director
Ritual film in remembrance of three disappeared film students from Jalisco, Mexico.
SOS MX
Writer
Ritual film in remembrance of three disappeared film students from Jalisco, Mexico.
Susurros del Panteón
Additional voice
A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.
Susurros del Panteón
Director of Photography
A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.
Susurros del Panteón
Producer
A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.
Susurros del Panteón
Writer
A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.
Susurros del Panteón
Director
A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.
Tanta Luz
Sound Designer
A love story through a study of landscape. The voice of a woman speaks to the father of her only child. He abandoned her before knowing about her pregnancy. Several years later, he finds out about his child and decides to search for him.
Tanta Luz
Producer
A love story through a study of landscape. The voice of a woman speaks to the father of her only child. He abandoned her before knowing about her pregnancy. Several years later, he finds out about his child and decides to search for him.
Tanta Luz
Editor
A love story through a study of landscape. The voice of a woman speaks to the father of her only child. He abandoned her before knowing about her pregnancy. Several years later, he finds out about his child and decides to search for him.
Tanta Luz
Writer
A love story through a study of landscape. The voice of a woman speaks to the father of her only child. He abandoned her before knowing about her pregnancy. Several years later, he finds out about his child and decides to search for him.
Tanta Luz
Director of Photography
A love story through a study of landscape. The voice of a woman speaks to the father of her only child. He abandoned her before knowing about her pregnancy. Several years later, he finds out about his child and decides to search for him.
Tanta Luz
Director
A love story through a study of landscape. The voice of a woman speaks to the father of her only child. He abandoned her before knowing about her pregnancy. Several years later, he finds out about his child and decides to search for him.
La Película
Producer
Short documentary on the transition to digital cinema, focused on its impact on film preservation and memory. The film guides us through a film laboratory, from the processing of the negative to the copying of the positive film, and complements this journey with interviews to directors of photography, industry professionals and heads of film institutions.
La Película
Editor
Short documentary on the transition to digital cinema, focused on its impact on film preservation and memory. The film guides us through a film laboratory, from the processing of the negative to the copying of the positive film, and complements this journey with interviews to directors of photography, industry professionals and heads of film institutions.
La Película
Writer
Short documentary on the transition to digital cinema, focused on its impact on film preservation and memory. The film guides us through a film laboratory, from the processing of the negative to the copying of the positive film, and complements this journey with interviews to directors of photography, industry professionals and heads of film institutions.
La Película
Director
Short documentary on the transition to digital cinema, focused on its impact on film preservation and memory. The film guides us through a film laboratory, from the processing of the negative to the copying of the positive film, and complements this journey with interviews to directors of photography, industry professionals and heads of film institutions.
Ciudad Merced
Editor
An audiovisual portrait about La Merced neighborhood in Mexico City
Ciudad Merced
Director
An audiovisual portrait about La Merced neighborhood in Mexico City
Tacuba 8. Palacio y Museo
Cinematography
A documentary about the Mexican National Museum of Art
Tacuba 8. Palacio y Museo
Writer
A documentary about the Mexican National Museum of Art
Tacuba 8. Palacio y Museo
Director
A documentary about the Mexican National Museum of Art