Paul Leduc

Extensión cultural

Paul Leduc

Documentary short film commissioned by the SEP. Plot unknown.

Complot Petróleo: La cabeza de la hidra

Paul Leduc

Arturo Alegro, José Alonso

While Mexico swims in the oil veins that were deeded to him by the Devil, a bureaucrat is thrown into a whirlwind of intrigue and international espionage where he discovers that the guts of the beast in charge are one and the same, and the evacuation conduit itself. : We are the shit of that monster. At the same time, a man and a woman discover that behind their passion there is a dark reality that drives them to disguise as action what is only hunger, suffering, desire.

Sur: sureste 2604

Paul Leduc

In the future, a couple hides from their pursuers in the archaeological ruins of Tulúm, on the beaches of Cozumel, and in the hubbub of a day out in an indigenous town.

Etnocidio: Notas sobre El Mezquital

Paul Leduc

Through the direct testimony of the Indians, the phenomenon of acculturation suffered by the Otomí minority of the Mezquital Valley, one of the poorest rural areas of the state of Hidalgo, in Mexico, is analyzed. It tries to show a broader problem that encompasses a large part of the Continent; how other peoples, other ethnic groups, are exterminated with all kinds of mechanisms, from brutal repression to the most sophisticated cultural penetration.

Los animales 1850-1950

Paul Leduc

Cecilia Toussaint, Jaime López

A compilation of 20 Mexican children's song, composed from 1850 to 1950, ranging from lyrical to surrealist, illustrated with digital animation.

Historias Prohibidas de Pulgarcito

Paul Leduc

It is a cinematographic adaptation made by the Museum of the Word and Image (Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen - MUPI) of the book of the same name by the poet Roque Dalton

¿Cómo ves?

Paul Leduc

Blanca Guerra, Roberto Sosa

Award-Winning filmmaker Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva, Reed: Insurgent Mexico, Barroco) directed this gritty musical drama about life in the ghettos of Mexico City during the 1980s. With a soundtrack of Mexican rock music, the camera takes the viewer through the streets, to rock concerts, and to the bars and clubs, where he exposes the hunger, repression, unhealthy conditions and violence in the marginal communities of Mexico's capital city.

La flauta de Bartolo

Paul Leduc

A journey that begins in prehistory, passes through the Mesoamerican peoples, and shows the instruments that were used in the conquest and the colony, in order to learn about the evolution of Mexican music.

Latino Bar

Paul Leduc

Dolores Pedro, Roberto Sosa

A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words.

Barroco

Paul Leduc

Francisco Rabal, Ángela Molina

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'

Frida, naturaleza viva

Paul Leduc

Ofelia Medina, Juan José Gurrola

This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.

Reed, México Insurgente

Paul Leduc

Claudio Obregón, Eduardo López Rojas

A dramatization of John Reed's newspaper accounts of the Mexican Revolution. Considered the first real film in Mexican cinema to be made on the Mexican Revolution.

Dollar Mambo

Paul Leduc

Dolores Pedro, Roberto Sosa

Music and dance nurture the story of a group of people who live in a popular neighborhood. The invasion of North American soldiers to Panama will break the tranquility of the place bringing a wave of violence with them.

Cobrador

Paul Leduc

Peter Fonda, Lázaro Ramos

Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.

Puebla hoy

Paul Leduc

Unknown plot

Estudio para un retrato: Francis Bacon

Paul Leduc, Rafael Castanedo

Documentary short film about the famous English character.