Rafael Corkidi

México 68: Instantáneas

Rafael Corkidi

Barbara Angely, Feliciano Bejar

Documentary depicting Mexican society, in honor of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. With a prologue by José Revueltas.

Pafnucio Santo

Rafael Corkidi

Pablo Corkidi, Juan Barrón

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!)

Las lupitas

Rafael Corkidi

Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Lyn May

Mexican feature film

Fando and Lis

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal

Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.

Auandar Anapu (el que cayó del cielo)

Rafael Corkidi

Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Jorge Humberto Robles

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..

Figuras de la Pasión

Rafael Corkidi

Tomás Mojarro, Tito Junco

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.

Deseos

Rafael Corkidi

Ana Luisa Peluffo, Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Snippets of a family drama involving a rebellious son coming to his depressing home village, his father, and a jaded ex-lover, mixed with various surrealist scenes and statements about sin.

Ángeles y querubines

Rafael Corkidi

Roberto Cañedo, Jorge Humberto Robles

A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view.

Son dedicado al mundo

Rafael Corkidi

A surrealist musical short, featuring folkloric dance and stark Mexican landscapes, in honor of the 1972 World Cup.

El maestro prodigioso

Rafael Corkidi

Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Daniel Corkidi

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.

Rulfo aeternum

Rafael Corkidi

Jose Luis Figueroa, Ernesto Gómez Cruz

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.