Juan José Gurrola

Descenso del pais de la noche

Alfredo Gurrola

Diana Mariscal, Juan José Gurrola

A young woman of wealthy class rejects the world that surrounds her and dies, but in her wake a shaman resuscitates her. She is dedicated to transgressing all the rules of her society. In the end a strange character offers him a flower and they both love each other.

Tajimara

Juan José Gurrola

Pilar Pellicer, Pixie Hopkin

First of two films that make up the collaborative film "Los Bienamados" (The Beloved, 1965). It narrates the encounters and misunderstandings of a pair of lovers during the years, from their adolescence to maturity.

Llámenme Mike

Alfredo Gurrola

Alejandro Parodi, Sasha Montenegro

After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.

El Topo

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

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.

Robarte el arte

Juan José Gurrola

Juan José Gurrola, Gelsen Gas

For Robarte el Arte [Stealing the Art] (1972), Juan José Gurrola together with Gelsen Gas and Arnaldo Coen supposedly stole an artwork during Documenta 5 in 1972 and represented it with an asterisk of scotch tape on a rock in the Wilhelmshöhe Park. Sequences of this performative action are montaged like in a silent movie with panels of cut-up newspaper text blocks, installation shots from the Documenta exhibition inside and outside Fridericianum, and scenes from a horror porn movie based on the story of the serial killer "Goyo" Cárdenas – his case became a sensation on Mexican media in the 1940s and inspired several copycat murderers imitating his crimes – and underscored with a dramatic soundtrack. With Robarte el Arte, the artists satirically destabilize Documenta’s institutionalized role to chart the current art developments and thus setting the foundation for a so-called canon as Eurocentric.

Alberto Gironella

Juan José Gurrola

Alberto Gironella was a Mexican plastic artist, considered one of the exponents of La Ruptura.

Los Bienamados

Juan Ibáñez, Juan José Gurrola

Claudio Obregón, Pixie Hopkin

Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings.