Rubén Gámez

Magueyes

Rubén Gámez

Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history.

Los Murmullos

Carlos Velo, Rubén Gámez

Luis Gaytán

A large part of the town of Juchitepec, State of Mexico, has left its place of origin to seek its fortune in the city. The survivors suffer the sale of their best land for agriculture to a pantheon. Death is a constant in a place where there is barely enough food.

La fórmula secreta

Rubén Gámez

José Castillo, Manuel Gaitán

A cinematographic essay, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.

Tequila

Rubén Gámez

Manuel Aguilar, Patricia Aguirre

Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this impressionistic portrait of modern-day Mexico. Reminiscent in some ways of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Tequila appears to be a cinematic extension of Mexico’s muralist tradition, a contemporary equivalent of Diego Rivera or David Alfaro Siqueiros with vignettes, quick ideas, visual puns, cartoons, and political statements.

Los Magueyes

Rubén Gámez

Experimental Mexican film about an iconic Mexican plant